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Social Innovation Fund
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Seeking Feedback on Draft Funding Notice
The Corporation is seeking feedback on a draft Notice of Funding Availability for the Social Innovation Fund. Click here to view the notice (PDF), and submit your comments by January 15 here.
Listen to a briefing and Q&A (MP3) on the SIF draft NOFA by Corporation staff held with grantmakers on 1/11/2010. | |
The Social Innovation Fund, a new public-private collaboration created by the 2009 Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, is designed to create new knowledge about how to solve social challenges in the areas of economic opportunity, youth development and school support, and healthy futures, and to improve our nation’s problem-solving infrastructure in low-income communities.
In Fiscal Year 2010, the Corporation will award up to $50 million in Federal funding to an estimated five to seven intermediary organizations. Annual awards, which will extend for five years, are expected to be in the range of $5 to $10 million and must be matched 1:1 in cash.
Community organizations will receive financial support from intermediaries on the order of no less than $100,000 per year for three to five years, as well as strategic support in areas such as management, and evaluation. Community organizations must also provide a 1:1 cash match for the total amount—Federal and private dollars—they receive from the intermediaries.
The Corporation has released a Draft Notice of Funds Available (NOFA), and is soliciting public input through January 15, 2010. The final NOFA is expected to be released in February of 2010. Please click here (PDF) for more information about the Social Innovation Fund NOFA, and to provide your feedback.
| Press Releases, Official Statements, and Updates |
- Funders Discussion on the Draft NOFA for the Social Innovation Fund (MP3 - 01/11/2010)
- National Service Agency Solicits Public Feedback on Social Innovation Fund (12/18/2009)
- White House Blog: Innovation With Crawfish Sauce: What a New Orleans Nonprofit Can Teach the Rest of the Country, by Melody Barnes, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council (10/30/2009)
- Social Innovation Fund Status Update Briefing Call (MP3 Audio - 10/15/2009)
The Corporation for National and Community Service hosted a national briefing call on October 15, 2009 to provide an update on the status of the Social Innovation Fund and answer questions from the field. The call was led by the following representatives of CNCS: Nicky Goren, Acting CEO; Bob Grimm, Director of Research and Policy Development and Senior Advisor to the CEO; and Marta Urquilla, Senior Advisor for Social Innovation. It was attended by over 650 representatives of public, private, and nonprofit organizations.
- White House Blog: Replicating Success, by Nicola Goren, Acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (10/8/2009)
- Social Innovation to Address Critical National Challenges Video (YouTube - 7/24/2009)
From the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service, this forum presented innovative strategies that solved public problems and considered how citizens can be engaged as partners with government. Building on this presentation, government officials and social innovators explored models of social innovation that have changed lives and the conditions that support social innovations.
Speakers included: Michele Jolin, Senior Advisor for Social Innovation, Domestic Policy Council, The White House; Steve Goldsmith, Acting Chair, Corporation for National and Community Service; Shannon Schuyler, US Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility, Price Waterhouse Coopers; Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green; Sarah Di Troia, Partner, New Profit Inc.; Ian Hardman, President, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT).
- Remarks of First Lady Michelle Obama at Time 100 Most Influential People Awards (5/5/2009)
- Remarks of President Obama on Community Solutions Agenda (6/30/2009)
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