and Awareness of Nonprofits ’ Challenges: Are Foundations and Nonprofits Seeing Eye to Eye? RESULTS

· In order for nonprofits and foundations to work most effectively together, they must understand each other’s perspectives. · This article discusses the alignment between the perspectives of nonprofit and foundation chief executive officers on four aspects of foundation practice: transparency with the nonprofits they fund, support for nonprofit-performance as-sessment, awareness of nonprofits ’ challenges, and the degree to which foundations use their resources to help address nonprofits ’ challenges. · Nonprofit and foundation CEOs are aligned when it comes to the degree to which foundations are seen to be aware of nonprofits ’ challenges and use their resources to help address them