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Details of FY2012-2014 Investment

An EMCF SIF investment will help Reading Partners serve thousands more young people and support a new randomized controlled trial that is likely to prove the effectiveness of the RP model.

New states and cities EMCF's SIF investment will support growth in: RP launched programs in New York City and Texas in 2011, and will continue to expand in these two locations. In addition, RP will deepen its reach in California and Washington, DC, areas where RP was already active. The organization is considering establishing new sites sites in North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio over the next two years.

Number of youth this investment will serve: RP is developing plans to serve a total of 6,000-8,000 young people between 2012 and 2014, an increase of up to 370 percent; 3,900 to 5,200 of these are expected to fall in EMCF’s age range of 9-24.

A scenario-based growth plan confirming or revising these projections will be available in June 2011.

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Nine Organizations Selected to Receive Social Innovation Fund Awards

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is investing up to $42 million over three years in nine organizations whose evidence-based programs promise to transform the life trajectories of thousands of low-income youth. In support of these grantees, the Foundation is establishing the True North Fund to leverage public money from the SIF and private money from the EMCF and institutional and individual philanthropic partners to effectively capitalize and expand programs that can serve more vulnerable young people.

A Families-First Approach to Foster Care

(Youth Villages) The New York Times, February 21, 2011

Nonprofit Pairs Up Nurses With Struggling First-Time Moms

(Nurse-Family Partnership) Huffington Post, March 14, 2011

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(Citizen Schools) NBC Nightly News, October 15, 2010

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