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EMCF's staff and operations have transitioned to Blue Meridian Partners, which is helping the Foundation fulfill its commitments to Youth Development Fund grantees. As EMCF invests all its assets within the next decade in making an enduring impact on the lives of children and families mired in...

Learning from our successes and failures, EMCF has continually evolved. While expanding our resources and partnerships, we have sharpened our focus on helping the least fortunate members of society. The story begins in the 1880s when David Hall McConnell, a door-to-door book salesman in New...

Propel Next is working with foundations in California to help youth-serving organizations in the state boost their impact on young peoples' lives. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , the David and Lucile Packard Foundation , the Sobrato Family Foundation , Weingart Foundation , the...

Capital aggregation is a form of coordinated, collaborative investment amassing private resources and uniting grantees and philanthropists behind the common goal of expanding evidence-based programs to maximize impact while ensuring quality. EMCF pioneered capital aggregation in the social...

Contact Information Note to Grantseekers: EMCF no longer makes new grants. Please direct questions and inquiries to: The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation c/o Blue Meridian Partners, Inc. 477 Madison Avenue Sixth Floor New York, NY 10022 Telephone: (212) 551- 9100 Fax: (212) 421-9325 Email:...

The National Academy Foundation supports a national network of career academies that are based in public high schools and serve youth ages 14-18. Career academies, organized as “small learning communities,” are taught by specially trained teachers who help students achieve academic success and...

Aggregated growth capital investments offer many advantages to co-investors and grantees that help them serve more youth more effectively. For co-investors, the benefits include: Leveraging the impact on disadvantaged youth of one’s own investment by adding other funders’ resources. Relying...

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's staff and operations have transitioned to Blue Meridian Partners, the new collaborative philanthropic investment model that EMCF incubated and in which it is a national General Partner. The Blue Meridian Team is helping EMCF fulfill its commitments and...

EMCF invests in nonprofits that lift the life prospects of vulnerable youth who are the hardest to reach, with the greatest obstacles to overcome on their way to productive adulthood.  We make these investments by engaging in three principal initiatives, through EMCF’s core Youth Development...

Good Shepherd Services goes where New York City's youth and families face the greatest challenges and provides resources that build on their inherent strengths to help them thrive. Through its network of innovative programs, the agency enables young people to build skills and grow and deepen...

Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection helps students stay in high school and graduate by providing them with in-school supports and part-time employment opportunities. Working in a unique partnership with Wegmans Food Markets and other private employers, Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection...

Harlem Children’s Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada discusses in an interview the importance of investing in human capital.

This report by author Andy Goodman captures the experiences of the three organizations—Citizen Schools, Harlem Children’s Zone and Roca, Inc.—that received the first EMCF grants under the Foundation's new youth development strategy. 

By documenting their stories over the past decade, EMCF hopes to...

EMCF CEO Nancy Roob and Jeffrey L. Bradach, co-founder and managing partner of the Bridgespan Group, discuss the challenges of taking an organization to scale.

The CEOs of EMCF grantees Youth Villages and Citizen Schools talk about what it takes to extend an organization’s reach and deepen its impact.

Since 2001, EMCF has invested in more than 40 organizations in our Youth Development Fund. The following organizations received support from EMCF to develop comprehensive  business plans , as well as long-term  investments  to implement their growth plans. Learn more about our alumni grantees...

Citizen Schools lifts the educational trajectories of low-income students, ages 11–14, by partnering with middle schools across the country to expand the learning day. Citizen Schools helps students improve their academic performance, and prepare for high school and college, by developing...

News & Perspectives Watch Nancy Roob's TEDx Talk Nancy Roob, President & CEO of EMCF and CEO of Blue Meridian Partners, shared her vision for a massive change in how philanthropy funds social programs. EMCF's View EMCF's View | Blue Meridian Partners | April 10, 2020 Response to the COVID-19...

The SEED Foundation opens and supports public boarding schools that help underserved students who need more than a traditional educational setting overcome obstacles and succeed in school, college and life. The SEED Foundation (SEED) integrates a rigorous college-prep academic program and...