Staff Perception Report

Cultivate a strong culture and engaged staff that will help you achieve your goals in 2024.

Staff Perception Report

The Only Staff Survey Designed Specifically for Foundations

Partner with CEP to gather candid feedback from your staff on topics that are crucial for your foundation’s impact. The SPR is the only staff survey designed specifically for the unique context of working in philanthropy, and it also puts your results in a comparative context with peer foundations. That’s the CEP difference.

Survey themes include:

  • Employee engagement and empowerment
  • Leadership, management, and supervisor relationships
  • Culture and communication
  • Grantmaking effectiveness and grantee interactions
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
SPR IN ACTION

The Commonwealth Fund talks about participating in their fifth SPR and how staff feedback has helped them work to become a high-performing workplace.

The Skillman Foundation describes the importance of workplace culture and regular feedback mechanisms.

New York State Health Foundation shares how they responded to their staff surveys and took the steps needed to improve.

SPR Participants

Use the map to see where more than 50 funders of all types and sizes have used the SPR to improve their effectiveness.

The CEP Difference

What makes CEP’s assessments so uniquely insightful?

  • Candid and Confidential Feedback: Gather vital feedback from key stakeholders through a trusted third party.
  • Rigorous Methodology: Learn about the practices most connected to effectiveness through our extensively tested and research-informed survey instrument.
  • Relevant Benchmarking: Use your results in a comparative context among data collected from more than 50 peer foundations.
  • Interactive Results and Analysis: Take a deep dive into your results with our interactive online reporting system.
  • Expert support: Let CEP’s team of experts guide you through the process, from survey design and implementation to helping you act on your results.
  • Driven by Evidence: Discover actionable insights in data amassed over a decade from hundreds of funders.