EMCF Named a Social Innovation Fund Intermediary

On July 22, 2010, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced it had selected the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation as of one of 11 intermediaries for the Social Innovation Fund (SIF). It has awarded the Foundation a $10 million federal grant to support youth-serving organizations with effective, evidence-based programs and a potential for substantial growth. 

Read Nancy Roob’s public letter on the Social Innovation Fund

Read EMCF's FAQ about the SIF  

Making the Most of the Future

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's 2009 Annual Report is now available, with updated reports on grantees' performance and latest projections. In addition, in her annual letter Making the Most of the Future, EMCF President Nancy Roob explains how the steps EMCF took "to preserve the gains we have helped grantees make over the last ten years," are positioning the Foundation and its grantees to take advantage of emerging opportunities to expand "what works" and benefit more of the nation's low-income youth. 

Read Nancy Roob's Column 

Obama Administration Cites Four EMCF Grantees
For Their Exemplary Programs

In May 2009, when the White House announced the creation of a Social Innovation Fund to support expanding “innovative, promising ideas that are transforming communities,” it cited as examples four grantees of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation: Nurse-Family Partnership, Youth Villages, Harlem Children’s Zone and Citizen Schools.

“The idea is simple,” said First Lady Michelle Obama: “to find the most effective programs out there and then provide the capital needed to replicate their success in communities around the country that are facing similar challenges.”

The evidence these four organizations have marshaled of their programs’ effectiveness accords with the Obama administration’s commitment to programs that have been proven to work.

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