Developed by Dr. David Olds and with three decades of rigorous research, Nurse-Family Partnership is a nurse home visiting program that has been proven to improve the lives of low-income, first-time families and their children. Specially trained nurses regularly visit low-income expectant mothers (median age 19) during their first pregnancy and during the first two years of their children’s lives, teaching them parenting skills and helping them access job training and education programs.

Three separate randomized, controlled trials were conducted over the past three decades among diverse populations and locations. A 15-year follow-up of the Elmira, New York, trial showed that mothers in the program become more economically self-sufficient and much more likely to avoid criminal behavior, and that their children live healthier, more productive lives than the mothers and children in the control group.

Reports:

• Families Served
• Total Revenue
• Expenditure Coverage by Funding Source
  
• Projected Growth Capital Raised and Expended
• Scaling: Number of Nurse Home Visitors
  
  

Families Enrolled  

Total Revenue (in millions)

* Nurse-Family Partnership became incorporated and spun off from the University of Colorado in 2004. The newly formed organization received the bulk of its start-up funding in 2005 to cover expenses for both 2005 and 2006. 

Note: The revenue figures are GAAP and include only the budget for the central organization, not for the entire network of local affiliates.

Expenditure Coverage by Funding Source

As an organization implements its growth plan, growth capital provides the funds necessary for the organization to scale up its operations. By the end of the growth plan, the organization is expected to grow its revenues from reliable, renewable sources, and, if it were to stop growing, become sustainable at its new, larger scale.

* Actual figures (2008 and beyond are projected targets).

Projected Growth Capital Raised and Expended

Growth capital refers to funds raised specifically upfront to underwrite the cost of expansion efforts in new sites, or of expanding services in existing locations. This metric measures the amount of growth capital committed by funders, commitments converted to donations, and the rate at which growth capital is being used. Nurse-Family Partnership initiated its growth capital campaign in 2007.

* Actual figures (2008 and beyond are projected targets).

Scaling: Number of Nurse Home Visitors