Supporting Grants

To assist youth-serving grantees become more effective in their work, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation makes a limited number of targeted grants to intermediary organizations that provide specialized training and expertise in the areas of evaluation and performance tracking; strategy development and refinement; talent recruitment, retention and development; communications; board strengthening; and fundraising. More information can be found in the section Other Supports.

America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth

New York, NY - $50,000 over six months to support EMCF grantees identify opportunities to build their programs as a result of the federal stimulus package signed into law on February 17, 2009.

www.americaspromise.org

The Bridgespan Group, Inc.

Boston, MA - $1,740,000 over 15 months to provide consulting support to the Foundation's grantees on business planning and ongoing strategic planning and assistance, as well as provide advisory support on the Foundation's Youth Development Fund grantmaking strategy.

www.bridgespan.org

Cheswick Center

Boston, MA - $384,000 over two years to assess EMCF's grantmaking approach on its grantees, including those participating in EMCF's Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot.

Learning as Leadership

San Rafael, CA - $200,000 over one year to provide leadership development programming to EMCF grantees.

www.learnaslead.com  

LWP, LLC

Boston, MA - $200,000 over one year to provide executive coaching and support to the chief executives of EMCF grantees.

MDRC

New York, NY - $195,000 over one year to advise Citizen Schools, Youth Villages and YouthBuild on planning related to conducting randomized controlled trials.

http://www.mdrc.org

MDRC

New York, NY - $2 million over five years to undertake a randomized controlled trial evaluation of Youth Villages' Transitional Living and Intercept programs.

http://www.mdrc.org

New York University

New York, NY - $245,000 over nine months to support work by the University's Research Center for Leadership in Action. The Center will plan a peer learning session among EMCF grantees, as well as organize and conduct EMCF 2009 grantees retreat.

wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Boston, MA - $66,000 over one year to provide consultation to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to strengthen BBBS' school based mentoring program.

http://www.rhodeslab.org/

Venture Fund

The Foundation also makes a very limited number of grants through its Venture Fund to support projects or make investments in organizations that fall outside its current Youth Development strategy, but help advance its overall mission. The Foundation also uses Venture Fund grants to advance areas that are essential to the long-term quality and effectiveness of its work, such as evaluation, communications and philanthropy.

Note: The Foundation does not accept unsolicited applications for supporting grants or for the Venture Fund.

The Communications Network

Naperville, IL - $25,000 over one year for general operating support.
www.comnetwork.org

The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region

Washington, DC – $25,000 over one year to support the activities of the Youth Transitions Funders Group.

www.ytfg.org

Council on Foundations, Inc.

Washington, DC - $40,000 over one year for general operating support.

www.cof.org

Council on Foundations, Inc.

Washington, DC - $70,000 over 3 months to support a research and planning project to synthesize and disseminate lessons on how a social innovation fund can identify, support and replicate effective social programs around the country.

www.cof.org

The Foundation Center

New York, NY - $60,000 over one year for annual membership dues.
www.foundationcenter.org

Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families

Silver Spring, MD - $22,500 over one year for general operating support.

http://www.gcyf.org

Grantmakers for Education

Portland, OR - $8,000 over one year for general operating support.

www.edfunders.org

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

Washington, DC - $50,000 over two years for general operating support.
www.geofunders.org

Independent Sector

Washington, DC - $62,500 over one year for general operating support.

www.independentsector.org

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, Inc.

New York, NY - $16,700 over one year for general operating support.

www.nyrag.org

The Nonprofit Information Networking Association

Boston, MA - $100,000 over two years for general operating support to publish The Nonprofit Quarterly.

www.nonprofitquarterly.org

Vera Institute for Justice, Inc.

New York, NY - $200,000 over two years to conduct an evaluation of Washington, DC’s juvenile justice reform effort, which is based on the ‘Missouri Model,’ to study its impact on youth outcomes.

http://www.vera.org