Phil Buchanan
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Position: Executive Director
Organization: Center for Effective Philanthropy
Location: Cambridge, MA
Phil Buchanan is a member of the Forms 990-PF Advisory Committee.
Phil Buchanan joined the Center for Effective Philanthropy in August 2001 as the first executive director. At the Center, Mr. Buchanan has built a research team, secured funding, developed a research and education agenda, and managed the development and introduction of new performance assessment tools, including the Grantee Perception Report. He led the Center's Foundation Performance Metrics Pilot Study as well as the first phase of the Center's Foundation Governance Project. He speaks regularly on issues of foundation effectiveness, foundation-grantee relations, foundation governance, and assessment of foundation performance at national and regional gatherings of foundation and nonprofit executives and trustees. His writings on educational and management issues have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Foundation News and Commentary, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. He received his undergraduate degree in government from Wesleyan University and holds an MBA from Harvard University.