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4/15/2012 |
Volunteers Recognized this Week
The Times-Leader
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It was during President Obama's first 100 days in office that he signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. This act is a now a national service law. This law has not only linked serving others but will introduce such programs as the Social Innovation Fund and has helped expand existing programs like the AmeriCorps.
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4/2/2012 |
United Way for Southeastern Michigan Awards 11 Grants Totaling $8 Million
Sage Nonprofit News
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The United Way for Southeastern Michigan recently announced $8 million in grants that will be divided among 11 organizations that support its early childhood education initiative. The grants are funded through a $4 million investment from the Social Innovation Fund and an allocation of funds from the General Motors Foundation for the Networks of Excellence initiative.
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3/30/2012 |
Start Saving with Tax Refund Incentive
San Antonio Express News
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Toni Van Buren, a senior vice president for Partners for Community Change, said the program is funded by federal Social Innovation Fund grant along with a local matching grant from the United Way.
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3/29/2012 |
United Way for Southeastern Michigan Awards $8 Million to Early Childhood Education Programs
The Foundation Center
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The grants, which are funded through a $4 million investment from the Social Innovation Fund and a matching $4 million allocation of funds UWSEM received from the General Motors Foundation for their Networks of Excellence initiative, will be used to help ensure that 80 percent of Detroit youth start kindergarten prepared to learn
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3/27/2012 |
Qualified Income Tax Filers Offered Incentives to Save Refunds
San Antonio Business Journal
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Anna Weaver, a United Way representative, says San Antonio is one of four cities to participate in the savings program which is being funded through a Social Innovation Fund. The goal is to encourage saving and asset building habits in key communities.
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3/19/2012 |
Schools Partner on Dropout Program
Ivy Tech Community College
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Christel House DORS (Dropout Recovery School) in partnership with Ivy Tech Community College has received a contract of up to $424,000 from Gateway to College National Network to implement Gateway to College, a nationally recognized dropout recovery program. Gateway to College National Network receives support for this replication effort, in part from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, The Corporation for National and Community Service's Social Innovation Fund, and other funders.
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3/9/2012 |
Washington Youth Soccer Receives Social Innovation Fund Sub-Grant from U.S. Soccer Foundation to Support Soccer for Success
Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Washington Youth Soccer is proud to announce the U.S. Soccer Foundation has awarded the organization a Social Innovation Fund Sub-Grant to support the implementation of Soccer for Success in South Seattle area schools. Soccer for Success is the U.S. Soccer Foundation’s after-school, sports-based youth development program that uses soccer as a tool to combat childhood obesity and provides nutrition education and mentorship to children in at-risk communities.
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3/9/2012 |
Colorado Fusion SC Wins Grant to Start after School Soccer Program
The Denver Post
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The U.S. Soccer Foundation, described as “the charitable arm of soccer in the United States” created the “Soccer for Success” program and anticipates it serving 12,000 kids in 13 U.S. cities by the end of this year. The money comes from local donations and the Social Innovation Fund, an arm of the same branch of the federal government that oversees AmeriCorps and other service programs.
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3/2/2012 |
Early-childhood Education Gets Big Boost Downvalley
The Aspen Times
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Summit 54 competed against 37 worthy education efforts to earn one of 11 Social Innovation Fund grants designed to advance early-childhood literacy in Colorado. Mile High United Way announced in October that it had received a $3.6 million grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. It launched an extensive application and review process to decide which organization to contribute to.
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3/1/2012 |
Mile High United Way Funds Literacy Programs to Serve 24,000 More Kids under Age 8
The Denver Post
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The funds came from a two-year $3.6 million Social Innovation Fund grant awarded in August to Mile High United Way. United Way president Christine Benero said 38 organizations applied for grants from the pool. The selection process included site visits and a look at evidence-based data using a higher than normal bar, set by the Social Innovation Fund.
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2/15/2012 |
Why More Nonprofits Are Getting Bigger
Standford Innovation Review
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This new layer of large nonprofits builds on the bedrock of brand names that emerged at the turn of the 20th century—the United Way, Goodwill, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America—that accounted for a vast amount of the nonprofit activity over the last 100 years. Some glimmer of hope may lie in new government resources directed toward evidence-based solutions, such as the federal Social Innovation Fund, but it is too early to understand the ultimate scale and impact of such efforts. And what’s worked to keep large nonprofits afloat in past recessions may no longer be possible.
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2/13/2012 |
NYC’s Center for Economic Opportunity Wins Harvard Government Award
Governing Magazine
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As another testament to the center’s success, it received a five-year Social Innovation Fund grant from the Obama Administration to replicate five of its anti-poverty programs in cities like Kansas City, Mo.; Newark, N.J.; Tulsa, Okla.; Cleveland, Ohio; Youngstown, Ohio; Memphis, Tenn. and San Antonio.
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2/8/2012 |
How Social Innovation Could Help Fix Government
Fast Co.Exist
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Paul Carttar is the director of the Social Innovation Fund, part of the Corporation for National and Community Service. At the SIF, Carttar tries to bring government funding and know-how to bear on the problems facing low-income communities in America.
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2/2/2012 |
Program to Offer Job Assistance in Transportation Industry
The Tulsa World
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Five-year $3.2 million budget funded through the Social Innovation Fund by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Center for Economic Opportunity, the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, George Kaiser Family Foundation and Tulsa Community Foundation.
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2/2/2012 |
Bloomy Touts Tax Programs for City’s Needy
The Queens Times-Ledger
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Veronica White, executive director of the city Center for Economic Opportunity, said $aveNYC was originally funded by the city but now the money comes from a mix of a Social Innovation Fund grant from President Barack Obama’s administration and private funds. Private funds match the federal grant funds three to one.
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2/1/2012 |
New Workforce Program In Downtown Tulsa
KTUL-TV
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The Transportation Connections WorkAdvance Center is located at 907 S. Detroit Avenue. It's being opened using the support of the federal Social Innovation Fund, a public-private initiative announced by the White House in 2009 and administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service. This grant is designed to address major social issues by growing high-impact organizations delivering proven solutions.
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2/1/2012 |
New Boarding School Outlines Cincinnati Plan
The Cincinnati Enquirer
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The SEED Foundation wants to plant roots in Cincinnati by opening the first public boarding school in the state.
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11/24/2011 |
Report: Local Students Achievement on the Rise
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Student achievement is on the rise in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, according to the Cincinnati-based Strive Partnership, which has been tracking student progress since 2006 in the Cincinnati, Covington and Newport school districts. Covington students' scores on fourth-grade reading tests and eighth-grade math tests rose since 2004 (though some of those numbers were down from the previous year). That district partnered with Gateway Community and Technical College and the Social Innovation Fund to improve post-secondary enrollment at Holmes High School.
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11/11/2011 |
New Ways to Fund Social Innovation
McKinsey & Company
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Meanwhile, the Obama Administration’s Social Innovation Fund is offering a one-to-three match for funding for VP partners, such as pioneers Venture Philanthropy Partners, REDF (Roberts Enterprise Development Fund), and New Profit Inc.
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11/9/2011 |
An Interview with Paul Carttar, Director of the Social Innovation Fund
Forbes
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In part two of a wide-ranging interview with Paul Carttar, Director of the Social Innovation Fund—an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) intended to improve the lives of people in low-income communities—we dug deeper into milestone achievements, priorities moving forward, the future of social innovation, and more.
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11/3/2011 |
The Obama Administration's Social Innovation Fund: An In-depth Interview with Director Paul Carttar
Huffington Post
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Recently, I interviewed Paul Carttar, Director of theSocial Innovation Fund--an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) intended to improve the lives of people in low-income communities. It does so by mobilizing public and private resources to grow promising, innovative community-based solutions that have evidence of compelling impact in three areas of priority need: economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development.
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10/27/2011 |
Innovation Criteria Is a Model for Feds
Education Week
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The Social Innovation Fund, a $50 million pot of money under the Corporation for National and Community Service, to support public-private partnership investment in evidence-based programs in low-income communities.
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6/21/2011 |
Champions of Change: Making a Difference through Service and Innovation
Huffington Post
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Our Administration is investing in these community solutions. Many of the Champions of Change are recipients of Social Innovation Fund grants--YouthBuild USA, the Delta Workforce Funding Collaborative, and iMentor--and we are so excited by the work that they are doing on the ground. Others are partnering with national service programs like VISTA and AmeriCorps, and delivering critical services to help communities recover and rebuild from disasters and to support the reintegration of veterans in our society--Equal Justice Works, Alabama State Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, and the Washington Commission for National and Community Service.
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4/28/2011 |
Social Innovation Fund Money Hits the Streets
Chronicle of Philanthropy
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We are now one step closer to discovering whether the Social Innovation Fund, the new federal grant program designed to help nonprofits expand effective social projects, will fulfill its promise.
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4/15/2011 |
Unique fund helps government work
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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By developing a new role for government as a catalyst for public-private partnerships, the SIF enables investment in proven solutions, harnessing the expertise and resources of the private and philanthropic sectors. This allows both sectors to collaborate in solving seemingly intractable problems in a manner that can be replicated in communities across the country.
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3/17/2011 |
Somerville−based YouthBuild gets $1.1−million grant
Tuft Daily
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YouthBuild USA, a national nonprofit headquartered in Somerville, was last month the recipient of a $1.1 million grant that will allow it to double the number of young people benefiting from its Postsecondary Education Initiative.
YouthBuild helps low−income youth who have dropped out of the education system to pass their General Education Development (GED) exams and develop marketable job skills through construction of low−income housing.
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3/7/2011 |
Venture Philanthropy Partners invests $1.4M in youth programs
Washington Business Journal
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These four organizations were pre-selected as members of the network during the application to the Social Innovation Fund, which was established as a part of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act and is administered by the Corporation for Community and National Service.
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3/1/2011 |
Nonprofit financial centers open in Houston
Houston Business Journal
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The organization, which established a Houston presence in 1989, helps community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities.
LISC is using a $600,000 award from the White House’s Social Innovation Fund to open the centers.
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2/28/2011 |
Grant to help rural HIV, AIDS patients
Montgomery Advertiser
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The funding that is going to MAO comes from a federal program called the Social Innovation Fund (SIF). The goal of SIF is raising public and private dollars to address social issues, said Vignetta Charles, vice president of programs and evaluation with AIDS United, a group based in Washington, D.C.
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2/28/2011 |
New Orleans gets grant for Bio-Science career training
Louisiana Weekly
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As jobs on the waterfront have melted away along with those in local manufacturing, attracting jobs that pay a livable wage to New Orleans has become more and more pressing. On Monday, the Mayor announced that The Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF) will receive a $300,000 grant that it will channel through The Greater New Orleans Workforce Funders' Collaborative (GNOWFC) to support job creation efforts in the BioDistrict. The BioDistrict is a 1500-acre area stretching from Downtown to Mid-City that aims to nurture a cutting-edge biological sciences research and development center along with a healthcare delivery system.
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2/25/2011 |
National College Advising receives $1.5 million grant
The Daily Tar Heel
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The National College Advising Corps, which partners UNC and 13 other colleges and universities, has received a $1.5 million Social Innovation Fund grant.
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2/25/2011 |
SAHA will be housing 'Jobs Plus' program
San Antonio Express News
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The funding will launch a “Jobs Plus” program aimed at educating and sending more than 1,000 residents to work or placing them into new positions with higher wages.
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2/24/2011 |
Urban Strategies leads innovative jobs program
St. Louis American
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“Our objective is to work with low-income at-risk youth and young adults that face multiple barriers to employment to prepare them and place them in meaningful, economically sound jobs,” said Urban Strategies President Sandra Moore.
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2/22/2011 |
Holmes receives grant to help restructure
Kentucky Post
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Holmes will implement the changes with the assistance of a $220,000 Social Innovation Fund Grant. Covington is one of only two school districts in the greater Cincinnati area to receive the funding from a collaboration of government and private funders. The district will receive the funding over two years to implement the new approach.
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2/18/2011 |
Grant programs will target area obesity and smoking
St. Joseph News-Press
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Heartland’s $176,271 award, a combination of federal Social Innovation Fund and matched Missouri Foundation of Health dollars, will be only a piece of the funding that will go toward community health programs, said Steve Wenger, process leader of market research and population health for Heartland. Total funding will be close to $500,000, counting community contributions.
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2/16/2011 |
Taxpayersto see that savings pays
San Antonio Express New
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Some San Antonio residents who have their income tax returns prepared for free stand to receive a nice perk if they're willing to squirrel away some of their refund for a year.
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2/16/2011 |
$3M from federal Social Innovation Fund behind REDF's six new portfolio companies
San Francisco Business Times
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San Francisco's REDF has used its $3 million grant from the federal Social Innovation Fund to launch a new portfolio that it says will create jobs and ways into the workforce for Californians with some of the greatest barriers to employment.
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2/15/2011 |
Mayor Landrieu & Greater New Orleans Foundation Announce New Grant To Fund Workforce Development For Biotech And Health Care Jobs
City of New Orleans
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the Greater New Orleans Foundation announced today that New Orleans is one of six communities in the South and Southwest to be awarded funds from the National Fund for Workforce Solutions and its implementation partner, Jobs for the Future, to develop innovative approaches to job training and career support in the biotech and health care sectors.
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2/15/2011 |
Detroit-New Orleans mayors unite to fight crime, blight
New Orleans Times-Picayune
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At Tuesday morning's news conference, Landrieu and the Greater New Orleans Foundation announced a new workforce-development grant from President Barack Obama's Social Innovation Fund, through the National Fund for Workforce Solutions. The grant will create a never-before coordinated system of government agencies and nonprofit groups -- "a workforce conveyor belt" of sorts, said Jim McNamara, the head of BioDistrict New Orleans -- to link up employers from the growing biosciences sector with trained employees while also giving low-income jobseekers with training, education and workforce opportunities.
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2/14/2011 |
Innovation helping local kids beat the odds
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Trey Smith is a Cincinnati pre-schooler whose mom was recently incarcerated, leaving him in the sole care of his father. His father works full-time and is caring for two of Trey's younger siblings.
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2/8/2011 |
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky announces grants
Louisville Courier Journal
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The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky on Tuesday announced four Social Innovation Fund grants totaling $1 million, which officials hope will increase access to health care in rural areas.
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2/7/2011 |
St. Louis Effort for AIDS receives grant for AIDS healthcare
KDSK-TV
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AIDS United awarded a grant to Saint Louis Effort for AIDS (EFA) that will be used to provide care for people in the St. Louis-area who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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2/7/2011 |
An end to HIV/AIDS epidemic in U.S.?
The Hill
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The funds are part of the partnership with the federal Social Innovation Fund, designed to improve our nation’s approach to solving challenges in low-income communities. These funds will be an important step in reshaping the current healthcare infrastructure for people living with HIV/AIDS, and will serve as a critical bridge to implementation of the full Affordable Care Act in 2014 and the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
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2/1/2011 |
United Way to administer new work force training program
Northeast Pennslyvania Business Journal
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One of Pennsylvania’s most recognizable human service agencies is entering the fray of workforce development.
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1/31/2011 |
$1.7M in grants for ed programs
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Nine local non-profit groups, including two local school districts, received $1.7 million in grant money today to expand their education programs.
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1/31/2011 |
Local groups getting grants from new fund
WVXU-FM
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The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Social Innovation Fund is providing an economic boost for nine local groups that help youth achieve academic and social success. The nonprofit organizations will be sharing $1.7 million in grants that are a combination of federal and private money. Greater Cincinnati Foundation CEO Kathy Merchant explains the goals of the Social Innovation Fund:
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1/18/2011 |
United Way takes over Workforce Network
Cincinnati Enquirer
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United Way of Greater Cincinnati has assumed management of the Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network, which aims to grow the skills of Greater Cincinnati's workforce to match the needs of the region's employers.
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12/22/2010 |
Richmond group's aim: Financial literacy
Contra Costa Times
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A Richmond-based nonprofit group has received a grant for a new program meant to improve financial literacy among low-income residents.
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12/17/2010 |
New Financial Support Program Coming To Duluth
Northland's News Center
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It's the first of its kind in Duluth...and it aims to assist low income families with financial support.
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12/16/2010 |
SIF Winner Awards Funds
Nonprofit Quarterly
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Yesterday, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) revealed the names of the 47 organizations it will fund through its grant from the Social Innovation Fund.
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12/16/2010 |
LISC Taps 47 Nonprofits for Social Innovation Fund Grants to Expand Financial Opportunity Centers in 10 Metro Areas
PR Newswire
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The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has announced grants to 47 community organizations as part of its federal Social Innovation Fund award to establish and expand Financial Opportunity Centers in 10 metropolitan areas. The grants are expected to help more than 25,000 families find jobs, reduce inappropriate debt, gain financial literacy and build assets.
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12/8/2010 |
Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative to Receive $600,000 from National Fund for Workforce Solutions
Citybizlist
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Baltimore is one of ten communities to receive a total of $5.5 million in new funding to expand innovative approaches to job training and career support from the National Fund for Workforce Solutions via the federal government's Social Innovation Fund - a landmark effort to co-invest with private philanthropy in identifying solutions to some of the nation's toughest challenges.
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12/7/2010 |
JOIN gets jobs grant from U.S.
Philadelphia Business Journal
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The Philadelphia-based Job Opportunity Investment Network said Tuesday it has received a $600,000 federal grant to expand its program for helping low-skill, low-wage workers improve their skills and get better jobs.
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12/7/2010 |
Community Foundation project gets $400,000 for work force efforts
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
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A Community Foundation of Greater South Wood County initiative is among 10 projects nationwide to garner a collective $5.5 million to strengthen work force training, a Community Foundation spokeswoman said today.
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12/3/2010 |
Four groups receive $496K in grants for low-income financial planning programs
Providence Business News
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The Amos House, Dorcas Place, Providence Housing Authority and Family Resources Community Action were selected to receive grants totaling $496,000 to help low-income families with financial planning.
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12/2/2010 |
Unique PA Collaborative to Receive $600,000 from National Fund for Workforce Solutions to Boost Training Approach That Delivers Double Benefits - for Businesses and for Workers
Centre Daily Times
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The Pennsylvania Fund for Workforce Solutions (PFWS) will receive $600,000 over two years from the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS) to expand its innovative approach to job training and career support in the Commonwealth.
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12/2/2010 |
PA Fund for Workforce Solutions to receive $600,000
WHP-TV
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The Pennsylvania Fund for Workforce Solutions will receive $600,000 over two years from the National Fund for Workforce Solutions .
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11/16/2010 |
Philanthropic Freedom & the Social Innovation Fund
Tactical Philanthropy
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Let’s set aside the specific issues that have been debated regarding the Social Innovation Fund and for a moment simply reflect on existence of the public debate. One thing that the Social Innovation Fund is highlighting in stark relief is the broad freedom that private foundations have to conduct their activities as they see fit.
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11/9/2010 |
Hawaii's Island Innovation Fund
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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It is now almost passé to acknowledge that we are in a period of intense reorganization in the nonprofit sector. For many this has meant battening down the hatches and waiting out the storm, but in all likelihood, for many organizations, the world is changing in a way that suggests it won’t change back. In an evolution/revolution cycle, we are probably smack dab in the middle of the latter and the circumstances have been thrust upon us.
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10/25/2010 |
Tulsa, six other cities chosen for poverty programs
Tulsa World
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Tulsa is one of seven U.S. cities chosen to replicate three programs that are meant to help the working poor and the unemployed. The city's funding from the Social Innovation Fund, an initiative of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, will be matched by the Tulsa Community Foundation in this five-year effort.
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10/18/2010 |
Federal funding to help REDF scale job creation model
San Francisco Business Times
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In July, REDF received a $3 million, two-year grant from the government’s $50 million Social Innovation Fund. The fund provided matching grants to 11 ...
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10/13/2010 |
ANNOUNCEMENT: Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Launches Social Innovation Fund Grants Competition
Philanthropy News Digest
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The New York City-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, one of eleven intermediary organizations selected earlier this year to receive an inaugural grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Social Innovation Fund (SIF), has opened the competitive application process for $20 million in funds -- $10 million from SIF and $10 million in matching funds from its own endowment -- which the foundation plans to invest in high-performing nonprofit organizations that are delivering "a truly effective and transformative service to very disadvantaged youth."
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9/29/2010 |
Local Initiatives Support Corporation Announces Launch of Financial Opportunity Center Social Innovation Fund
Philanthropy News Digest
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Funded in part with its award from the Social Innovation Fund, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation has announced the launch of its Financial Opportunity Center Social Innovation Fund.
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8/15/2010 |
Weekend Entrepreneur Links: Openness, Incubators, and Ideas
Change.org
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Lets Hear Those Ideas: A mega-piece by Philanthrocapitalism author and Economist Bureau Chief Matthew Bishop that compares the Obama Administrations courting of social entrepreneurs with programs like the Social Innovation Fund to the British Government's new "Big Society" programs. Important to understand how a new class of "civic entrepreneurs" might reshape the relationship between people, business, and government.
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8/15/2010 |
Supporting Socially Innovative Tech Startups
Read Write Start
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Okay, so it may not be a venture-fundable idea. And nor, as it's a for-profit company, is it eligible for much of the funding aimed at non-profit organizations working on these sorts of community-oriented projects, including the new $50 million Social Innovation Fund. But as Funny Monkey and many other companies demonstrate, making money and having a social mission, creating profits and social innovation, aren't mutually exclusive.
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8/14/2010 |
Centers for Working Families expanding in Indianapolis
Indianapolis Business Journal
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The local grant is part of $4.2 million that Washington, D.C.-based LISC will receive from the Obama administration’s Social Innovation Fund.
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8/12/2010 |
Will Social Entrepreneurship Finally Scale? What do you think?
Renaissance 2
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Although the SIF accounts for a tiny fraction of the federal budget, the fund embodies an approach that the administration plans to spread throughout government. The fund is one of several efforts to promote new partnerships of government, private capital, social entrepreneurs and the public, pushed by the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (OSICP), which Mr Obama created soon after taking office. These initiatives include another fund, i3 (for “investing in innovation”), in the Department of Education and cash prizes for novel answers to social problems.
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8/12/2010 |
Let's hear those ideas
The Economist
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On July 22nd Barack Obama’s administration listed the first 11 investments by its new Social Innovation Fund (SIF). About $50m of public money, more than matched by $74m from philanthropic foundations, will be given to some of America’s most successful non-profit organisations, in order to expand their work in health care, in creating jobs and in supporting young people (see table).
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8/10/2010 |
Franchising Hope: New York City helps Memphis fight poverty
The Memphis Daily News
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“This announcement by the Center for Economic Opportunity and the Social Innovation Fund is nothing less than an announcement of hope for the city of Memphis,” Wharton said. “Right now, one out of every four Memphians dwells in poverty, including one-third of our children and one-third of our African-American population.
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8/9/2010 |
Companies donate employees' time, service instead of cash
USA Today
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Driving the trend is a move by some companies to make up for their lower cash donations, and to put a monetary value to non-cash services. At the same time, the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2008 launched a three-year campaign to get U.S. companies to donate $1 billion in pro bono (or free) services by 2011.
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8/4/2010 |
Tipping Point to help leverage SIF award in the Bay Area
Tipping Point Community
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SIF will award $10 million to EMCF, which subject to a 3-to-1 match, will be distributed to high-impact organizations affecting academic achievement, work readiness and avoidance of high-risk behaviors among low-income youth ages 9-24. EMCF will focus their initial efforts in Northern California, North and South Carolina and Oklahoma.
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8/3/2010 |
Kentucky foundation gets grant to improve health in some communities
THE COURIER-JOURNAL
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The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has received a $2 million grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that runs AmeriCorps, Senior Corps and other service programs.
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7/29/2010 |
CSRminute: Hanson Building Products Plans for Sustainability; Venture Philanthropy Partners Wins $13M from Social Innovation Fund
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CSRminute: Hanson Building Products Plans for Sustainability; Venture Philanthropy Partners Wins $13M from Social Innovation Fund
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7/29/2010 |
Grant will be matched to help with rural health
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The Lexington Herald-Leader quoted a statement from the nonprofit Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky in reporting the funding comes from the Corporation for National and Community Service and will be matched with another $2 million.
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7/29/2010 |
Taking a Closer Look at the Social Innovation Fund Grantees
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If there is one thing that Americans excel at, it is coming up with creative solutions to problems. And with so many chronic social challenges facing our nation, we love the fact that President Obama and the Corporation For National And Community Service are looking to stimulate innovation from the nonprofit sector. Back in May, President Obama announced he would ask Congress to set aside $50 million in the 2010 fiscal year budget for the new Social Innovation Fund (SIF).
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7/29/2010 |
Foundation gets $2 million to help rural and low-income communities
Lexington Herald-Leader
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The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has received a $2 million grant that it plans to match with another $2 million to help up to 10 low-income and rural communities.
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7/28/2010 |
Ohio Organizations and Initiatives Included in Grants Awarded by Social Innovation Fund
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On July 22, 2010 the Corporation for National and Community Service awarded Social Innovation Fund grants to 11 organizations working in the fields of economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development and school support. Several Ohio organizations and initiatives will benefit.
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7/28/2010 |
National LISC grant flows to Tri-State
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The Cincinnati office of the Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) will receive about $500,000 from a national grant awarded by the Obama administration on July 22.
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7/28/2010 |
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky receives $2 Million Grant
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The Corporation for National and Community Services today announced the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is a recipient of a $2 million Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant over the next two years
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7/27/2010 |
Foundation gets $2 million to help rural and low-income communities
Lexington Herald-Leader
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The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has received a $2 million grant that it plans to match with another $2 million to help up to 10 low-income and rural communities.
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7/27/2010 |
Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Sets an Example
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The Corporation for National Community Service announced its inaugural Social Innovation Fund grants last week, which committed $50 million to organizations with effective solutions to persistent social challenges. This marks an important step toward spreading public-sector innovation.
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7/27/2010 |
Cincinnati United Way, Strive awarded $2M national Social Innovation grant
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The United Way of Greater Cincinnati, along with non-profit urban education advocate Strive and community partners are one of 11 organizations nationwide that received funding from the new federal Social Innovation Fund.
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7/27/2010 |
LISC Receives Grant Under New Social Innovation Fund
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The Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) has been awarded $4.2 million under the Obama administration’s new Social Innovation Fund (SIF) to extend the reach of LISC Financial Opportunity Centers and help low- and moderate-income families realize lasting economic stability. The grant will support new and expanded centers in Chicago; Cincinnati; Detroit; Duluth, Minn.; Houston; Indianapolis; Minneapolis/St. Paul; San Diego; and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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7/26/2010 |
Twin Cities to Benefit from Obama’s Social Innovation Fund
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The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) will receive a $4.2 million grant from the Obama Administration’s groundbreaking Social Innovation Fund (SIF), part of which will come to Twin Cities LISC. The national grant will extend the reach of LISC Financial Opportunity Centers, which help low- and moderate-income families realize lasting economic stability. The local money will support new and expanded Centers in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
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7/26/2010 |
Pictures and video from the Social Innovation Fund announcement in Washington, DC
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As I wrote about in my previous post, REDF was honored to be chosen as one of the recipients of the first annual Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant. Jason Trimiew and I went to Washington, DC for the announcement. Below are a few photos and a short video from our trip.
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7/26/2010 |
Builders, Buyers & the Social Innovation Fund
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On Friday afternoon, Nathaniel Whittemore of the Social Entrepreneurship blog sent me an email questioning the enthusiasm in my recent post about the Social Innovation Fund (SIF). Nathaniel is someone whose opinion I greatly respect and his points of contention were very valid. So I sent him back a detailed response, which (with his permission) I’ve decided to republish here.
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7/26/2010 |
National AIDS Fund receives $3.6 million Social Innovation Fund award
San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
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The $3.6 million SIF grant will enable NAF to expand the scope of its Access to Care initiative in support of innovative public-private partnerships to improve individual health outcomes and strengthen local services systems, connecting economically and socially marginalized individuals living with HIV to high quality supportive services and health care.
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7/26/2010 |
Detroit Local Initiatives Support Corp. to share in $4.2 million in federal funds
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The federal Corp. for National and Community Service has awarded the Local Initiatives Support Corp. $4.2 million to extend the reach of LISC Financial Opportunity Centers in Detroit and eight other urban areas to help low- and moderate-income families achieve economic stability.
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7/25/2010 |
REDF Receives $3 Million Social Innovation Fund Grant
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Today REDF was elated to receive news of a two year $3 million federal Social Innovation Fund grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). The support is welcome and needed fuel we will use to expand San Francisco Bay Area social enterprises, and to take our work to other parts of California. We are especially motivated to put all we have into accomplishing our goals as we are the only California-based organization among the eleven groups selected.
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7/23/2010 |
REDF Receives $3M Social Innovation Fund Grant to Create Jobs for Californians Overcoming Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration
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REDF, a San Francisco-based venture philanthropy organization dedicated to transforming lives by creating economic opportunity through social enterprise, today announced it has been awarded $3 million by the Corporation for National and Community Service under its Social Innovation Fund (SIF).
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7/23/2010 |
Social Innovation Fund Announces Grantees
Tactical Philanthropy Advisors
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I’m thrilled with the Social Innovation Fund’s newly announced list of grantees. In many ways, the results read like my personal wish list for how I thought they should approach their decision.
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7/23/2010 |
Wise Picks? Commentators Weigh In on the Social Innovation Fund Grants
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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The nonprofit world is starting to digest yesterday's announcement of $50-million in federal grants by the Social Innovation Fund.
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7/23/2010 |
New federal match grant targets social innovation
The Daily Dunkin
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Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) has received $2 million in federal matching funds to launch a new grant program, Strategic Innovation in Missouri (SIM). Grants through this program will target community-based efforts to reduce obesity and tobacco use throughout Missouri. MFH is one of only 11 organizations in the United States receiving these federal funds.
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7/22/2010 |
NATIONAL AIDS FUND RECEIVES $3.6 MILLION SOCIAL INNOVATION FUND AWARD
Out Fort Worth
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New Public Private Partnership Supports Implementation of National HIV/AIDS Strategy;
Leverages Corporate, Philanthropic and Individual Support for Programs
Ensuring Access to High-Quality HIV Care
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7/22/2010 |
SIF Map
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On July 22, 2010, the Social Innovation Fund, administered through the Corporation for National and Community Service, announced their inaugural grantees–eleven in total–that received grants between two and ten million dollars to be distributed over the next one to two years. While the Social Innovation Fund has received mixed reviews in terms of it’s scope and innovativeness, this collaborative among the federal government, private funders, intermediary beneficiaries, and subgrantees offers a great deal of curiosity and excitement for those interested in philanthropy and providing solutions to some of the nation’s most pressing social problems.
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7/22/2010 |
Open Society Foundations Partner with Federal Government to Drive Innovation and Opportunity Combating Poverty in Communities Nationwide
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The Open Society Foundations today pledged $5.5 million to three nonprofit organizations working to strengthen communities and spur economic growth. The investment by the Open Society Foundations’ Special Fund for Poverty Alleviation will be matched by the federal Social Innovation Fund (SIF) as well as by private dollars.
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7/22/2010 |
Jobs for the Future, Inc. Awarded Social Innovation Fund Grant
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The National Fund for Workforce Solutions, with its implementation partner Jobs for the Future (JFF), has been awarded a two-year $7.7 million grant from the Corporation for National and Community Services under its Social Innovation Fund in Washington, DC.
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7/22/2010 |
Region To Partner In Anti-Poverty Employment Initiative
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Northeast Ohio will get a piece of a federal grant designed to help those who have the toughest time finding employment. Ideastream's Bill Rice reports the region is one of eight partners in the 5.2 million dollar grant initiative.
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7/22/2010 |
First Social Innovation Fund Grants Announced
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The national Social Innovation Fund announced its first list of grantmaking partners today, a group of 11 nonprofit organizations and social enterprises that will help distribute some $123 million in public and private dollars to catalyze social innovation.
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7/22/2010 |
Politico Pulse
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SCOOP: CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICES RELEASES INAUGURAL GRANTS – PULSE has learned the first recipients of Social Innovation Fund grantees include three health-specific projects: The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, Missouri Foundation for Health, and the National AIDS Fund will receive a cumulative $7.6 million. The Social Innovation Fund grants, part of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation’s broader agenda, will be announced at 10:30 a.m. today.
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7/22/2010 |
National AIDS Fund Receives $3.6 Million Social Innovation Fund Award From Corporation for National and Community Service For Access to Care Initiative
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New Public Private Partnership Supports Implementation of National HIV/AIDS Strategy; Leverages Corporate, Philanthropic and Individual Support for Programs Ensuring Access to High-Quality HIV Care
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7/22/2010 |
The Social Innovation Fund Grants Focus on "What Works"
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The central mission dissonance of the Social Innovation Fund has always been the question of what its real objective was. Was it meant to be a fund that really pushes an experimental agenda and deploys capital in favor of new approaches to social change that have both high risk and high reward? Or was it alternately a chance for the government to get a hand in on organizations whose models started as innovative and who were reaching an inflection point where new resources and government support could help them achieve the scale their proven model demanded. Even the title of the press release announcing the new grants demonstrates the tension: "Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grants Awarded to Experienced Innovators" (emphasis mine).
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7/22/2010 |
Public-Private Collaboration: White House Honors Knight Partner With New Social Innovation Fund Grant
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I’m in Washington today, where the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is receiving $7.7 million from the White House's new Social Innovation Fund.
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7/22/2010 |
The Social Innovation Fund: Government Doing Business Differently
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Today, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) announced the grantees for the Social Innovation Fund. During the past year, the CNCS crafted and launched the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) with help from thousands of you who provided feedback and ideas. The grants will go to effective organizations who will then identify, support and grow the best “community solutions” – local organizations that are addressing our persistent social challenges and transforming our cities and towns.
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7/22/2010 |
Social Innovation Fund Winners Revealed
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The Corporation for National and Community Service announced today the 11 groups that will receive the first grants from its $50 million Social Innovation Fund (SIF), which is designed to fund promising new approaches in job training, youth development and health initiatives.
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7/22/2010 |
Cincinnati United Way Gets $2 Million Grant
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The United Way, Strive Partnership and other community partners have received a $2 million grant for their work in youth development and school support.
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7/22/2010 |
United Way lands $2M grant
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The United Way of Greater Cincinnati is one of 11 organizations nationwide to receive $2 million in federal money under the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.
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7/22/2010 |
Missouri Foundation for Health gets $2M grant to curtail obesity
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The Missouri Foundation for Health is set to receive $2 million from the federal government to reduce obesity and tobacco use throughout the state.
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7/22/2010 |
Federal grant money to aid Missouri program
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The Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) has received $2 million in federal matching funds to launch a new grant program, Strategic Innovation in Missouri (SIM). Grants through this program will target community-based efforts to reduce obesity and tobacco use throughout Missouri. MFH is one of only 11 organizations in the United States receiving these federal funds.
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7/22/2010 |
United Way, Strive get $2M grant
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The United Way of Greater Cincinnati and the Strive Partnership won a $2 million Social Innovation Fund grant to invest in community programs in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport.
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7/22/2010 |
Federal Government Awards $50-Million in First Set of Innovation Grants
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The Social Innovation Fund, a federal program to pump millions of private and public dollars into projects that are effectively tackling pressing social problems, awarded its first round of grants today, totaling nearly $50-million. Among the biggest winners: job-training and workforce-development programs.
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7/22/2010 |
Federal grant aims to reduce tobacco use, obesity in Missouri
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The Missouri Foundation for Health has been awarded a $2 million federal grant to reduce obesity and tobacco use in low-income communities.
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7/22/2010 |
Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grants Awarded to Experienced Innovators
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In response to the increasing health needs, economic challenges and gaps in youth achievement facing low-income rural and urban communities, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced its inaugural Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants today. The grants will target millions in public and private funds to grow effective solutions to persistent social challenges across more than 20 states.
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7/22/2010 |
Social Innovation Fund Picks $50 Million Winners
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Nearly a dozen organizations from around the country will share in the first round of Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants from the federal government totaling $50 million. Combined with the required private matching funds, the total in grants is $74 million.
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7/22/2010 |
National Service Agency CEO to Announce Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grant Awards to...
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This Thursday, the Corporation for National and Community Service will announce its inaugural Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants. The grants will target millions in public and private funds to grow effective solutions to persistent social challenges across greater than 20 states.
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7/22/2010 |
Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grants Awarded to Experienced Innovators
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In response to the increasing health needs, economic challenges and gaps in youth achievement facing low-income rural and urban communities, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced its inaugural Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants today. The grants will target millions in public and private funds to grow effective solutions to persistent social challenges across more than 20 states.
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7/22/2010 |
National Service Agency CEO to Announce Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grant Awards to Experienced Innovators
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This Thursday, the Corporation for National and Community Service will announce its inaugural Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants. The grants will target millions in public and private funds to grow effective solutions to persistent social challenges across greater than 20 states.
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7/21/2010 |
National Service Agency CEO to Announce Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grant Awards to Experienced Innovators
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This Thursday, the Corporation for National and Community Service will announce its inaugural Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants. The grants will target millions in public and private funds to grow effective solutions to persistent social challenges across greater than 20 states.
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7/21/2010 |
National Service Agency CEO to Announce Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grant Awards to Experienced Innovators
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This Thursday, the Corporation for National and Community Service will announce its inaugural Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants. The grants will target millions in public and private funds to grow effective solutions to persistent social challenges across greater than 20 states.
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7/21/2010 |
National Service Agency CEO To Announce Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grant Awards To Experienced Innovators
The Street
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This Thursday, the Corporation for National and Community Service will announce its inaugural Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants. The grants will target millions in public and private funds to grow effective solutions to persistent social challenges across greater than 20 states.
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7/17/2010 |
No time to lose
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The program is drawing attention from as far away as the White House. In a speech on May 27 introducing the Social Innovation Fund, a $50 million federal program created to support effective nonprofits, first lady Michelle Obama mentioned BELL as an example of a successful nonprofit model for social reform.
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6/10/2010 |
Social Innovation Through Juice
St. Louis Business Journal
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In a presentation May 27, first lady Michelle Obama announced the initial matching commitments made by philanthropists to the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), a competitive grant program intended to funnel funding to community-based projects addressing problems from poverty to failing schools
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6/3/2010 |
Working Differently to Scale Up Innovation
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Not business as usual -- well that was for sure at the announcement of the White House Social Innovation Fund. What a thrill and sense of possibility to hear First Lady Michelle Obama and Domestic Policy Director call for a new type of partnership and commitment to solving some of our most thorny issues from failing schools to breaking the cycle of poverty. While the initial $50 million is an important first step from the government, the match from private donors - ranging from leading philanthropists to Mayor Michael Bloomberg to George Soros’s Open Society Institute to the Skoll Foundation will provide much needed matching dollars and expertise.
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6/3/2010 |
Philanthropic Commitments to Social Innovation Fund Featured at White House Press Conference
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At a White House press conference last Thursday, May 27, philanthropic commitments to the administration’s Social Innovation Fund, were announced by First Lady Michelle Obama, who also highlighted a letter of support from the Council on Foundations. Signed by more than 130 heads of community foundations from across the country, the letter expressed support for the fund and the administration’s agenda to invest in community solutions.
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6/2/2010 |
US Social Innovation Fund Boost
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The Skoll Foundation has announced it is committing $10 million over two years to support the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), a new competitive grant program housed at the US Corporation for National and Community Service.
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5/28/2010 |
Foundations are Chipping in to Support the Social Innovation Fund
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America's greatest strength is its ability to create and innovate. And there's every reason to try to match this strength up against some of the most persistent and chronic social challenges we face as a democracy, by seeding smart, entrepreneurial approaches to solving problems.
One of the most promising elements of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act was the creation of the $50 million Social Innovation Fund. Here's a reminder of what the SIF aims to do and how it will work:
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5/27/2010 |
Skoll Foundation, Omidyar Network to each give $10M to White House community service fund
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The Skoll Foundation and Omidyar Network said they will each commit $10 million over two years to the Social Innovation Fund, a public-private partnership that supports nonprofit community groups.
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5/27/2010 |
$45 Million Committed for Matching Social Innovation Grants
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First lady Michelle Obama and Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Patrick Corvington announced today that several foundations and private philanthropists have committed a total of $45 million over the next two years to be used primarily as matching funds for programs chosen by the $50 million Social Innovation Fund (SIF).
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5/27/2010 |
Stepping up to Support the Social Innovation Fund and Other Community Solutions
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One year ago, at the Time 100 Awards, the First Lady announced the creation of a new $50 million Social Innovation Fund (SIF), which is part of the President’s commitment to invest in results-oriented solutions around the country. On June 30th, 2009, at an event at the White House, the President also called on our nation's foundations to partner with the Administration to invest in solutions that have the potential to grow and address the needs of more communities across the country.
Today, we highlighted the initial round of commitments from philanthropists to match the Social Innovation Fund and make other investments in innovative community solutions.
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5/27/2010 |
Open Society Foundations Join Social Innovation Fund to Strengthen Communities and Spur Economic Growth
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As part of an effort to fight poverty in the United States, the Open Society Foundations today announced a $10 million partnership with the federal government to support at-risk youth and increase economic opportunities in low-income communities.
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5/27/2010 |
Philanthropists Kick In $50m to Social Innovation Fund
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First Lady Michelle Obama today announced that philanthropic foundations and individuals -- including Silicon Valley VC John Doerr and the family foundations led by social entrepreneurs Pierre Omidyar, Eli Broad and Jeff Skoll, among others -- have kicked in a combined $50 million in matching dollars to the national Social Innovation Fund, to help fund and spur public/private social innovation.Obama said the amount matches the amount of SIF grant dollars the government has already committed to the program.
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5/27/2010 |
White House Puts Spotlight on Foundation Support for Social Innovation Fund
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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The White House put the Social Innovation Fund on center stage Thursday, sponsoring an event to announce that grant makers have pledged almost $50-million to support the new federal grants program for promising nonprofit groups.
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5/27/2010 |
$45 Million Match Is Pledged
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Michelle Obama on Thursday announced that five foundations — the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Skoll Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the Benificus Foundation — would provide a total of $45 million to match the money the government plans to grant to nonprofit groups through its Social Innovation Fund, which will help expand social programs that have proven successful.
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5/26/2010 |
Coalition of Grant Makers Pledge $5-Million to Broaden Impact of Federal Social Innovation Fund
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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A White House event on Thursday will highlight a coalition of more than 20 grant makers that have pledged nearly $5-million over three years to help broaden the impact of the Social Innovation Fund, the new federal grant program for effective nonprofit groups
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5/25/2010 |
White House Plans to Announce Private Spending on Social Innovation Fund
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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The White House has planned an event for Thursday to announce "philanthropic commitments" that have been made to support the Social Innovation Fund, the new federal grants program to help nonprofit groups expand effective social programs.
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4/29/2010 |
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Takes on Role with Social Innovation Fund
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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Just over $4 million has been contributed mostly by large foundations to Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), for “Scaling What Works,” a project to derive and circulate the lessons of President Obama’s Social Innovation Fund (SIF). The SIF was authorized by the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act; it contains $50 million in federal dollars to be given in the fields of economic opportunity, youth development and school support and healthy futures to promote “transformative” innovations that “have the potential to affect how the same challenge is addressed in other communities”. But after all the required matches at the Philanthropic and organizational level have been counted, the fund will involve total investments of $200 million. While the money may, to some, appear limited, the potential influence of the experiment has obviously captured the imaginations of a sub-set of philanthropy.
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4/29/2010 |
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Takes on Role with Social Innovation Fund
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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Just over $4 million has been contributed mostly by large foundations to Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), for “Scaling What Works,” a project to derive and circulate the lessons of President Obama’s Social Innovation Fund (SIF). The SIF was authorized by the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act; it contains $50 million in federal dollars to be given in the fields of economic opportunity, youth development and school support and healthy futures to promote “transformative” innovations that “have the potential to affect how the same challenge is addressed in other communities”. But after all the required matches at the Philanthropic and organizational level have been counted, the fund will involve total investments of $200 million. While the money may, to some, appear limited, the potential influence of the experiment has obviously captured the imaginations of a sub-set of philanthropy.
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4/22/2010 |
69 Applicants Vie for Grants From Social Innovation Fund
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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The Corporation for National and Community Service has received 69 applications for the $50-million in grants that the Social Innovation Fund will award this year.
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4/15/2010 |
Government fund aimed at bolstering nonprofits
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The director of a new $50 million investment fund established by President Barack Obama's administration to award federal dollars to select nonprofit community organizations said the government could play a valuable role in helping nonprofits have a more significant social impact.
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4/13/2010 |
Former KU leader gets gig in D.C. but can stay in Lawrence
Lawrence Journal World News
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Paul Carttar, a former executive vice chancellor for external affairs at KU, will lead the initiative that is expected to generate $200 million in public and private funds.
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4/9/2010 |
Phillip Carttar to Head President Obama's Social Innovation Fund
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that the Corporation for National and Community Service has named nonprofit expert Phillip L. Carttar to head the federal Social Innovation Fund. Mr. Carttar co-founded the nonprofit management consulting firm the Bridgespan Group and currently is an executive at New Profit Inc., which provides funding for innovative social projects, according to the article.
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4/8/2010 |
CNCS Names Head of Social Innovation Fund
Youthtoday.org
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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today announced the appointment of Bridgespan Group co-founder Paul Carttar to serve as director of its Social Innovation Fund (SIF), which will aim to use $50 million in federal funds to leverage $200 million worth of public-private ventures aimed at community change and development.
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4/7/2010 |
Interview with Paul Carttar: Incoming Director of the Social Innovation Fund
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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Paul Carttar will be officially announced today (April 7) as director of the Social Innovation Fund at the Corporation for National and Community Service. April 8th is the due date for the first round of proposals from entities that want to be designated as re-grantmaking intermediaries. These intermediaries will collectively distribute $50 million in Social Innovation Fund dollars plus a dollar-for-dollar or higher private sector match that they will bring to the program. Carttar talked with the Rick Cohen of the Nonprofit Quarterly on April 6th to share his perspectives on the Social Innovation Fund.
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4/7/2010 |
Social Innovation Fund Grants: One Applicant Discusses Its Proposal
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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In announcing the new director of the Social Innovation Fund, Paul L. Carttar, the Corporation for National and Community Service said that more than 200 groups had indicated they planned to apply for the $50-million in grants that the fund will award this year.
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4/7/2010 |
Federal Program to Find Innovative Charities Names New Leader
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Paul L. Carttar—a nonprofit expert with a wide range of experience in philanthropic, business, government, and academic work—has been named director of the Social Innovation Fund, the new federal grant program designed to help nonprofit groups expand effective programs.
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4/7/2010 |
Social Innovation Fund Names New Director
Tactical Philanthropy Advisors
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The Corporation for National and Community Service announced today that they have named Paul Carttar as director of the Social Innovation Fund. To my surprise and great honor, Paul called me yesterday to say that he and his team have been reading my commentary on the Fund here at Tactical Philanthropy and to fill me in on his plans as the new leader. Paul noted specifically that he has appreciated the wide range of voices given a platform here at Tactical Philanthropy, so an extra thank you goes out to all of you who have written guest posts and left comments about the Fund.
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3/30/2010 |
The Social Innovation Fund
Join Together
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The Corporation for National Service will award up to $50 million in matching grants to intermediary groups that will then make subgrants of $100,000 and up to support social innovation.
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2/18/2010 |
Buzz Keeps Building for Social Innovation Fund
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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The Corporation for National and Community Service issued its final notice this week on how it plans to spend the Social Innovation Fund, or SIF as insiders call it. And blogs are abuzz with the potential of the new program.
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2/17/2010 |
Former Post Metro columnist updates community on projects and passions
The St. Louis American
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More than a trillion dollars of Obama’s 2011 budget proposal is dedicated to creating and accessing new, well-paying jobs, affordable homes, modern transportation, healthy food choices and quality schools in depressed urban areas. St. Louis, with its impoverished black population and depressing social indicators, stands to benefit from Obama’s other proposed federal programs, such as the Healthy Food Financing, Choice Neighborhoods, Sustainable Communities and Social Innovation Fund initiatives.
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2/17/2010 |
Are you a Social Innovator?
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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While not a scientific test, our crack staff, along with special contributor Phil Anthrop, has identified fifteen variables to predict your success in being accepted as a “social innovator” for purposes of bringing in the really big bucks. We publish this in celebration of the recent publishing of the Social Innovation Fund notice of funding application. Proceed at your own risk.
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2/17/2010 |
New, Improved Social Innovation Fund Now Taking Applications
Change.org
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A few months ago, the much-ballyhooed Social Innovation Fund released a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) to solicit public comment. Many of us chose to make our comments public, with common themes including questions of how accessible the money would be and concerns about stringent impact measurement requirements. Now, the NOFA has been updated -- incorporating many of the public's comments -- and the Social Innovation Fund is open for business.
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2/17/2010 |
CNCS Unveils Guidelines for Social Innovation Grants
Youth Today
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Long-awaited funding guidelines for the new $50 million Social Innovation Fund were announced today by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), whose interim board chair, Stephen Goldsmith, tried to explain just how much experience might be needed to qualify for some of the money.
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2/16/2010 |
Social Innovation Fund Grant Competition Launched
Public-Philanthropic Partnership
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Fund effective and potentially transformative portfolios of nonprofit community organizations to help them strengthen their evidence base, and replicate and expand to serve more low-income communities;
Identify more effective approaches to addressing critical social challenges and broadly share this knowledge; and
Develop the grantmaking infrastructure necessary to support the work of social innovation in communities across the country.
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2/16/2010 |
UK should follow Obama's lead with venture philanthropy fund
Social Enterprise Live
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The UK government should take inspiration from Obama's administration and establish its own £50m social innovation fund to boost venture philanthropists' work combating social problems.
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2/16/2010 |
Social Innovation Fund Finalizes Details for Grant Process
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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The Corporation for National and Community Service issued its final notice today on how it plans to spend the Social Innovation Fund, paving the way for organizations to prepare their grant applications.
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2/16/2010 |
National Service Agency Requests Applications for Social Innovation Fund Competition
One Star Foundation
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Too many social challenges have been allowed to fester when innovative approaches are already delivering results in communities throughout the U.S. - it doesn't have to be this way," said Stephen Goldsmith, the Chair of the Corporation's Board of Directors. "The SIF will help ensure that high-impact nonprofits are able to attract the public and private resources they need to grow and improve the economic, education and health prospects of low-income communities.
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2/16/2010 |
Social Innovation Grants Start at $1 Million
The NonProfit Times
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After weeks of public comment, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) has released its final Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), lowering the original minimum grant award to $1 million.
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1/14/2010 |
Focusing on What Works: Federal Fund's Approach Makes a Misstep
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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My concerns stem from the work of the nonprofit organization I head, the Full Frame Initiative (which is not seeking any money from the Social Innovation Fund, so no hidden agenda here). For the past five years, we have been doing work that resonates with much of what the Social Innovation Fund wants to do: finding out what works best to reduce poverty, violence, and health problems in the nation's poorest neighborhoods and developing ways to spread those ideas.
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1/13/2010 |
Rethinking Ways to Give Wisely
Business Week
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Individuals in the U.S. give away more than $200 billion a year, yet the vast majority of those decisions are made ad hoc.Few donors have any idea whether they are giving to the best organization in the area they want to improve, or even whether their giving is doing what they want it to do.A slew of nascent efforts to rate and grade charities, as well as the pending overhaul of the big kahuna of nonprofit ratings groups, Charity Navigator, may change all that.
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1/6/2010 |
Three Things To Watch With The Social Innovation Fund
Change.org
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The New Year is bringing with it an accelerated buzz and excitement around the forthcoming Social Innovation Fund. A few weeks ago, the Corporation for National and Community Service released funding guidelines and asked for public comment. Sean has been curating that conversation on Tactical Philanthropy and an excellent guest post by nonprofit consultant Adin Miller prompted me to think about the three things I'm watching for with the Social Innovation Fund.
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12/18/2009 |
Federal Agency Issues Preliminary Plans for Social Innovation Fund
Chronicle of Philanthropy
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The Corporation for National and Community Service today released a long-awaited draft notice spelling out how it will award grants under the $50-million Social Innovation Fund.
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12/14/2009 |
Info sessions scheduled on federal Social Innovation Fund
MSN Money
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A series of town hall meetings are scheduled to take place around the state on the federal Social Innovation Fund.
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12/8/2009 |
VIDEO: Marta Urquilla on the Social Innovation Fund
YouTube - Rootcauseorg Channel
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Marta Urquilla from the Corporation for National And Community Service explains how the Social Innovation Fund can contribute to building infrastructure on a cross-sector, national level to begin solving social problems on a systemic, rather than piecemeal, basis.
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12/2/2009 |
Leveraging Social Innovation & Volunteer Funds
Philanthropy Northwest
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You are invited to a special, two-part conversation on Wednesday, December 2nd about the Social Innovation Fund and new opportunities to partner with the State Commissions of the Corporation for National and Community Service on volunteerism and nonprofit capacity.
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11/22/2009 |
Thanks and giving
Indiana Daily Student
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President Barack Obama has made advocating service a priority of his administration. This past summer, he launched the United We Serve initiative and signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which will increase the size of AmeriCorps from 75,000 to 250,000 members by 2017 and will create a Social Innovation Fund to improve the efficiency of service projects.
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10/30/2009 |
Innovation with Crawfish Sauce: What a New Orleans Nonprofit Can Teach the Rest of the Country
The White House Blog
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That’s why the President has established a Social Innovation Fund. Run out of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Social Innovation Fund will provide the growth capital that is largely lacking in the philanthropic sector.
This fund will invest in programs we know are high-impact and help them grow to other communities around the country. This is a new role for government. Instead of simply funding services year after year, the President believes government can play a more dynamic role by seeking out creative, results-oriented programs and serving as a catalyst for replicating those efforts. That’s also why we are looking at other ways to promote capacity building among nonprofits, all the while having a dogged focus on impact and metrics. We have to know that we are getting a good return on the investment of taxpayer dollars.
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