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Phillip Buchanan ’92

For the second year in a row, Phillip Buchanan ’92, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), has been named to The Nonprofit Times “Power and Influence Top 50.” This honor recognizes leaders who have had a major impact on the nonprofit field in the last twelve months, and whose leadership is responding to, and growing with, challenges in the charitable sector. Buchanan joined CEP, which develops comparative data to enable higherperforming foundations, as its first staff member in 2001. He has overseen the growth of the Cambridge, Massachusettsbased organization to a staff of 30, with a new office in San Francisco slated to open in October. He was a government major at Wesleyan and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. His past experience includes strategy consulting at the Bostonbased Parthenon Group and six years in higher education administration, as assistant to the presidents of Wesleyan University and Mount Holyoke College.
For the second year in a row, Phillip Buchanan ’92, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), has been named to The Nonprofit Times “Power and Influence Top 50.” This honor recognizes leaders who have had a major impact on the nonprofit field in the last twelve months, and whose leadership is responding to, and growing with, challenges in the charitable sector. Buchanan joined CEP, which develops comparative data to enable higherperforming foundations, as its first staff member in 2001. He has overseen the growth of the Cambridge, Massachusettsbased organization to a staff of 30, with a new office in San Francisco slated to open in October. He was a government major at Wesleyan and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. His past experience includes strategy consulting at the Bostonbased Parthenon Group and six years in higher education administration, as assistant to the presidents of Wesleyan University and Mount Holyoke College.