Listening to Students: Beneficiary Feedback in Education
Funders care about American education. Foundations of all sizes, locations, and ideological beliefs aim to improve education and support young people, and, in 2012, foundations spent $5 billion on...
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View ArticleFoundations Must Lead the Way on the Diversity Agenda
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Donor Stories: Grantmaking that is “With” and not “For”
We’re starting a new periodic blog series today called “Donor Stories,” in which we highlight origin stories of foundations and funders that reflect upon themes and lessons we are seeing in current...
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Understanding Beneficiaries to Build True Partnerships
This post is adapted from the CEP report, Staying Connected: How Five Foundations Understand Those They Seek to Help. The five foundations highlighted in Staying Connected all view grantees as being a...
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Unlocking the Potential of Beneficiary Feedback
How can we better listen to, learn from, and act on feedback from those we seek to help? The topic of listening to beneficiaries has received increasing attention in recent years. CEP research...
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Prioritizing Values for Better Outcomes, Better Lives
At UTEC, we work to help disconnected young people in the communities of Lawrence and Lowell, MA trade violence and poverty for social and economic success. In our work, we believe that the young...
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The Necessity of Understanding Need
It’s no secret that working in the nonprofit sector is a challenge. Many organizations are strapped for resources, and staff are often overworked and working for less money than they could get at a...
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Listening to Students: Beneficiary Feedback in Education
Funders care about American education. Foundations of all sizes, locations, and ideological beliefs aim to improve education and support young people, and, in 2012, foundations spent $5 billion on...
View ArticleListening to Beneficiaries: Student Feedback on College and Career Readiness
At YouthTruth, we believe that the best way to understand how students experience school is to go directly to the source and ask the students themselves. Since CEP developed YouthTruth in collaboration...
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Get Proximate: The Potential Power of Feedback Loops
“Philanthropy can be more effective by getting more proximate to problems,” said Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Founder and Executive Director Bryan Stevenson in his opening plenary at the 2017 CEP...
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Getting on the Same Page: Defining Perceptual Feedback
The other week, I was presenting at a conference about the importance of nonprofits systematically eliciting perceptual feedback from clients, or those they seek to help, about how things are going...
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Using Beneficiary Feedback to Address Bullying in Schools
What would education funders learn if they spoke directly with those whose lives they seek to improve? What would students say when asked about their experiences in school? In 2008, those questions...
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Learning from Student Voice: Most High Schoolers Feel Unprepared for College...
School’s out for summer. At YouthTruth, that means time for reflection, innovation, and preparation for the year ahead — including taking a deeper look at the aggregate student perception data we’ve...
View ArticleThe Voices of Those We Seek to Help
How can we as funders do a better job of hearing from the people we seek to help? How can listening to our beneficiaries help us be more effective funders? We are looking forward to engaging CEP...
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Being Responsive to Beneficiaries
The following profile is an excerpt from CEP’s recent research report, Hearing from Those We Seek to Help: Nonprofit Practices and Perspectives in Beneficiary Feedback. Crittenton Children’s Center in...
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Using Feedback to Improve Interactions with Beneficiaries
The following profile is an excerpt from CEP’s recent research report, Hearing from Those We Seek to Help: Nonprofit Practices and Perspectives in Beneficiary Feedback. Lifetrack in St. Paul, MN was...
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