The report shares data on crucial topics such as foundations’ evaluation staffing and structures, investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of evaluation information. It seeks to provide benchmarking data that will be useful to foundation leaders as they seek to better understand the choices of their peers and think more deeply about their own evaluation goals and strategies.
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Join WGF, DHS and GWP to discuss how partners in community, philanthropy, and government can find ways to put women at the center of local economic development and poverty reduction efforts.
Join NCFP president Ginny Esposito as she interviews Susan Packard Orr about her forthcoming Passages Issue Brief, “Seven Things I Wish My Parents Had Told Me.”
Most philanthropic families use multiple vehicles and a range of professional advisors to realize their mission and goals – including partnering with community foundations.
This webinar, featuring tips from NCFP’s new Passage Issue Brief on this topic and the Case Foundation’s “Be Fearless” campaign to ignite a more fearless approach to change making, provides practical tools for generous families that want to assess, tame, and mitigate philanthropic risk and expand their comfort zone to embrace increased uncertainty in their grantmaking strategy.
How do corporations and their nonprofit partners balance making charitable investments without creating challenges for the recipients?
From a survey for Fortune magazine, here is more confirmation that younger workers are more interested in corporate community engagement than their older counterparts.
Four powerful reasons that help make the case to corporate leaders for philanthropy: corporate giving builds the company’s reputation, improves its community, helps attract talent and creates impor
A study by America’s Charities shows that 68%
The Reputation Institute has released its global list of the most socially responsible companies for the year. Results are based on surveying 240,000 respondents in 15 countries and aggregating th
While the concept of CSR can sound “new age,” entrepreneur Steven Kaufman discovered it was a smart move.
The article above notes the work of TOMS Shoes, a for-profit social enterprise that donates shoes to children in the developing world.
In this article in Inc.com, author Tom Gimbel describes the importance of letting employees lead your company’s giving in your community/region. His company identifies charities and nonprofits to
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) and Center for Evaluation Innovation (CEI) have released today a new research report representing the most comprehensive data collection effort to date o
BNY Mellon and Bridgeway Capital are joining as Challenge Partners this year in the UpPrize funding competition. This year's focus areas include access to healthy foods and innovative technology.
Join us for a conversation about why the census matters and the role that philanthropy can play in ensuring a fair and accurate count.
The Pittsburgh Foundation's Second Day of Giving took place on September 21 and raised a remarkable $2.1 million for regional nonprofits.
p4’s second annual conference will take place on Oct. 18-19, 2016, at Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
The 2016 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits data is now available from the Council on Foundations.