Bess Rothenberg

Jul 9, 2024 | cep.org | Eric Li |Luc Athayde-Rizzaro |Bess Rothenberg

As a global funder, we often hear from, and share with, our peers the challenges of collecting grantee demographic data internationally. This includes questions of how to navigate different legal landscapes in terms of what data we are allowed to collect; how to approach sensitive data; and what is even meaningful to collect given the importance of cultural context. Requirements around compliance, privacy, and security of data varies from place to place.

Mar 28, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Cyndi Suarez |Bess Rothenberg |M. Felix Macaraeg

In 2013, politician and voting-rights activist Stacey Abrams founded the New Georgia Project (NGP), a nonpartisan effort to register, engage, and build power for Black, Latinx, and young voters. Since then, the organization has become a model for engaging and mobilizing these groups of voters around the issues that are most important to them.

Mar 26, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Bess Rothenberg

Can philanthropy, an institution rooted in the accumulation of wealth, be an effective agent to meaningfully reduce inequality? For decades, while some in philanthropy have supported efforts to change policies and practices to improve people’s lives, philanthropic money has too often reinforced existing power structures, perpetuating inequality in the process.

Jan 30, 2024 | cep.org | Luc Athayde-Rizzaro |Bess Rothenberg

In 2008, the Ford Foundation made its first foray into using the Grantee Perception Report (GPR) conducted by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) for vital feedback on how grantees perceive us. Between then and 2017, CEP administered the survey on behalf of Ford four times … and our results were consistently disappointing. Our scores were rarely higher than average.