The Center for Effective Philanthropy

New Analysis Provides Further Evidence of Shifts in Funder Practices

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nonprofits are experiencing meaningful changes in the practices of funders since 2020, according to a new Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) report.

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  • CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nonprofits are experiencing meaningful changes in the practices of funders since 2020, according to a new Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) report.
  • Nonprofits are experiencing meaningful changes in the practices of funders since 2020, according to a new CEP report.
  • This suggests that nonprofits are indeed experiencing shifts in funder practice even beyond what we normally see, at least in their experiences with foundations committed to listening to and acting on grantee feedback.
  • This data is also consistent with shifts reported by nonprofits in a separate study CEP conducted based on its grantee survey panel earlier this year.

CEP Releases New Research on the Impact of MacKenzie Scott's Big Giving

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recipients of MacKenzie Scott's unusually large gifts say the funding has been transformative for their organizations.

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  • CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recipients of MacKenzie Scott's unusually large gifts say the funding has been transformative for their organizations.
  • Recipients of MacKenzie Scott's unusually large gifts say the funding has been transformative for their organizations.
  • In the first report in a three-year study on Scott's giving, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) analyzed data from 277 nonprofit leaders whose organizations have been recipients of Scott's giving and conducted in-depth interviews with 40 of these organizations' leaders.
  • For more information on CEP's work, including its research, assessments, advisory services, and programming, visit www.cep.org .

Leading Grants Platform Fluxx Adopts the Impact Genome Project's Universal Impact Registry

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Thursday, May 19, 2022
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CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Impact Genome Project® announced Fluxx will integrate with the Impact Genome's universal nonprofit impact registry. Fluxx joins SmartSimple in uniting philanthropy technology leaders in standardizing and quantifying social outcomes. Together, these grants platforms include more than 500 foundations and represent $23 billion in annual giving.  

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  • Integration Builds Momentum for Sector-wide Common Applications, Benchmarking, and Reporting
    CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The Impact Genome Project announced Fluxx will integrate with the Impact Genome's universal nonprofit impact registry.
  • "By integrating with the Impact Genome, Fluxx and SmartSimple are leading the field toward greater equity, transparency and accountability."
  • "Integrating with the Impact Genome's universal registry enables Fluxx to help our customers benchmark and act on their impact data," said Kerrin Mitchell, chief development officer and co-founder, Fluxx.
  • The Impact Genome Project is a universal registry that enables nonprofits and funders to standardize, verify and report social outcomes.

SmartSimple is the First Grants Management System to Adopt a Universal Nonprofit Impact Registry

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
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CHICAGO, March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Impact Genome Project® and SmartSimple announced that SmartSimple will be the first cloud software platform to integrate the Impact Genome®, a universal nonprofit impact registry. Integrating the Impact Genome to a grants management platform reduces administrative burden for nonprofits by enabling instant grant applications and standardized impact reporting. The integration also allows funders to access impact data on millions of nonprofits without changing systems or processes.

Key Points: 
  • Partnership Will Enable Common Applications, Common Reporting, and Benchmarking
    CHICAGO, March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Impact Genome Project and SmartSimple announced that SmartSimple will be the first cloud software platform to integrate the Impact Genome, a universal nonprofit impact registry.
  • Integrating the Impact Genome to a grants management platform reduces administrative burden for nonprofits by enabling instant grant applications and standardized impact reporting.
  • The Impact Genome includes standardized, comparable impact data on more than two million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
  • The Impact Genome Project is a universal registry designed to standardize and quantify social impact outcomes.