Joseph Lee

Joseph Lee, Center for Effective Philanthropy


CEP seeks to influence foundations and major donors to be more effective. We offer assessments that gather essential feedback from key stakeholders, data-driven research, customized advisory services, thought-provoking events, and incisive commentary on the CEP Blog.

Philosophy/Approach: CEP's approach for its core assessment work involves fielding easy-to-implement, confidential online surveys that allows funders of every type and size to learn from actionable insights based on truly candid and reliable stakeholder feedback. Our tools put your results in a comparative context with your peers, ensuring you can make the best use of your resources to create impact. CEP’s team of experts guide you through the process, from survey design and implementation to helping you act on your results.

Types of clients: Private foundations, corporations, community foundations, individual donors

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Specialization: CEP’s assessments provide unique insights into our clients' philanthropic effectiveness by gathering candid and actionable feedback from key stakeholders and benchmarking results with other foundations. We also offer data-driven, customized advisory services leveraging CEP’s knowledge and experience to help funders answer pressing questions about their work, address existing challenges, hear from valued constituents, and learn and share with peers.

Joseph Lee, Manager, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEP