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Performance Milestones

EMCF investments include performance milestones that the grantee sets in consultation with the Foundation and to which it agrees to be held accountable. Examples of performance milestones include:

increasing the number of youth served in current locations
adding new locations to increase the number of youth served
completing an external evaluation
increasing the organization’s budget
codifying programs so they can be replicated with similar quality and results
aligning staff structure
formulating a leadership succession plan
diversifying funding sources
improving program performance data and using it to drive effectiveness

If an organization meets its initial performance milestones, the Foundation will consider additional grants.

Detailed reports on the performance of our grantees and of the Foundation itself can be found under Results.

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In the Spotlight

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

Enlisting Professionals as Part-time Educators

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

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