New at the Foundation
Sharing the Experiences of EMCF Grantees
A Good Thing Growing, a report by author Andy Goodman, captures the experiences of the three organizations—Citizen Schools, Harlem Children’s Zone and Roca—that received the first EMCF grants under the Foundation's new youth development strategy. By documenting their stories over the past decade, EMCF hopes to help practitioners, funders and policymakers striving to expand other promising programs. How these three grantees have grown and what they have accomplished show the potential of our nation's nonprofits and their funders to turn around the lives of our most vulnerable youth.
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EMCF 2010 Annual Report Now Available
“Given our weak economy and sharp political disagreement over how to strengthen it, the state of the nation did not improve dramatically in 2010,” EMCF President Nancy Roob writes in her latest letter, Entering a New Phase of Growth, in the Foundation’s newly released 2010 Annual Report. “So it is with great caution and my fingers crossed that I report that last year the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and many of our grantees seemed to turn a corner and enter a new phase of growth.” Her letter and the report describe how, even under adverse conditions, EMCF increased its number of grantees last year, and our grantees pursued plans to help more disadvantaged youth.
Grantees in the Spotlight
Google Boosts Citizen Schools
Google.org has granted $3.25 million to support Citizen Schools’ partnerships with middle schools in 17 communities across the country. A longtime EMCF grantee, Citizen Schools is a national leader in expanding school hours and learning opportunities for low-income students. Its emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is in keeping with Google’s high-tech enterprise, and more than 350 Google employees have volunteered to teach hands-on courses to Citizen Schools students.
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Promise in Buffalo Neighborhoods
Promise Neighborhoods, a White House initiative to replicate nationally the success of EMCF grantee Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City, has awarded one of its first five implementation grants to Buffalo’s Westminster Foundation. One of the foundation’s partners in providing cradle-to-career services that improve the educational achievement and healthy development of children in underserved Buffalo neighborhoods is EMCF grantee Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, which will receive up to $210,000 to engage with a new school and double the number of Buffalo youth it assists with academic and job-training services.