Supporting Grants

BoardSource

Washington, DC - $30,000 over six months to support the creation of a diagnostic tool to assess nonprofit boards' effectiveness.

www.boardsource.org

Bridgespan Group

Boston, MA - $2.5 million over three years to support implementation of the organization's strategic growth and quality improvement plan called "Chapter 2."

www.bridgespangroup.org

Cheswick Center

Boston, MA - $71,000 over four months to assess EMCF's relationship and management efforts with its grantees, and develop an evaluation framework to guide future improvements in this area.

Cheswick Center

Boston, MA - $19,200 over four months to assess EMCF's leadership development activities, and produce an evaluation framework for future investments in this area.

Child Trends, Inc.

Washington, DC - $ 120,000 over one year to support ongoing research on "disconnected youth" and expand its database of experimentally evaluated programs in Child Trends DataBank and LINKS.

www.childtrends.org

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

New York, NY - $250,000 over one year to provide consultation and support to assist the Foundation's grantees in addressing their organizational development issues.

www.emcf.org

Good Gear LLC

Boston, MA - $75,000 over six months to provide executive coaching support and board development assistance for the Foundation's Youth Development Fund grantees.

Good Gear, LLC

Boston, MA - $75,000 over one year to provide executive coaching and support on board development to the Foundation's Youth Development Fund grantees.

New York University Research Center for Leadership in Action

New York, NY - $60,000 over two months for support developing and facilitating the 2006 EMCF grantee retreat, which centered on talent development and succession planning.

wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/

Nonprofit Finance Fund

New York, NY - $500,000 over one year to support efforts to revise the financial models of the Foundation's grantees, and assist the organizations develop growth capital funding campaigns. The grant will also support the organization develop and disseminate diagnostic and analytical tools to help nonprofits understand capital requirements and explore financing options.

www.nonprofitfinancefund.org

Public/Private Ventures

Philadelphia, PA - $90,000 over one year to provide technical assistance to the Foundation's grantees related to workforce development.

www.ppv.org

Vera Institute for Justice

New York, NY - $120,000 over one year to support the establishment of the Center for Economic Mobility, whose mission will be to identify and support programs that enable low-income people to acquire the education, skills, and opportunities to better their socioeconomic status. The Center will provide evaluation support, including outcomes analysis and benchmarking consultation, to the Foundation's grantees.

www.vera.org