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Foundation Performance

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation holds itself accountable for achieving program and strategy, financial, communications, and operations milestones that are laid out at the beginning of each year. The Foundation is also exploring the creation of new metrics to measure the impact of its investments and, ultimately, its “social return on investment.”

In keeping with its commitment to reporting publicly the performance of its grantees, the Foundation is planning to recount progress toward its stated goals in new reports and publications in 2008. We believe such reporting is unique for not only a private foundation, but for most nonprofits. We plan to share information about our performance, and the lessons learned from adopting this new, more transparent approach to documenting our performance.

In the Spotlight

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President Barack Obama Recognizes Nurse-Family Partnership and Harlem Children's Zone

Expansion of the Nurse-Family Partnership , a nurse home-visitation program proven to improve the long-term health and well-being of low-income first-time mothers and their children, is a major priority outlined in President Barack Obama's domestic public policy agenda.

Also, over the past 12 months, President Obama has repeatedly cited Harlem Children's Zone as a model for helping low-income youth succeed, calling it "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck, anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children." Obama has proposed the creation of 20 "Promise Neighborhoods" modeled after HCZ.

In the News

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Nurse-Family Partnership: Help moms now to avoid problems later

Star Tribune, January 13, 2009

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Campbell program lets students work on real-world projects (Citizen Schools)

San Jose Mercury News, January 10, 2009

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Charity begins in the office
The Financial Times, November 11, 2008

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