About The Center for Effective Philanthropy
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on the development of comparative data to enable higher-performing funders. CEP’s mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and impact. This mission is based on a vision of a world in which pressing social needs are more effectively addressed. It stems from a belief that improved effectiveness of philanthropic funders can have a profoundly positive impact on nonprofit organizations and the people and communities they serve.
CEP pursues its mission through data collection and research that fuel the creation of assessment tools, publications, and programming. Since receiving initial funding in 2001, CEP has produced widely referenced research reports on foundation performance assessment, foundation strategy, foundation governance, and foundation-grantee relationships. CEP has created new data sets relevant to philanthropic leaders and hosts highly regarded programming focused on key issues related to funder effectiveness.
CEP has also developed widely used assessment tools such as:
- the Grantee Perception Report ® (GPR), which provides foundations with comparative data on grantee perceptions of key elements of foundation performance,
- the Comparative Board Report (CBR), which allows foundation boards to assess their own structures and effectiveness against comparative data,
- the Staff Perception Report (SPR),
- the Beneficiary Perception Report (BPR), which provides comparative data from foundation beneficiaries – those who foundations are designed to serve, and
- the Stakeholder Assessment Report (STAR).
Nearly two hundred foundations, most among the largest in the United States, have used CEP’s assessment tools, and many have implemented significant changes on the basis of what they have learned.
contact CEP
675 Massachusetts Avenue,7th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 492-0800
Fax: (617) 492-0888
100 Montgomery Street, Suite 1700
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 391-3070
Fax: (415) 956-9916
