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The Foundation relies heavily on its Evaluation Advisory Committee for advice about building an evidence base, recommendations and referrals. Formed in 2001, this panel of nationally respected independent experts convenes semi-annually to review the evidence and evaluations of candidates for...

Congreso de Latinos Unidos serves Eastern North Philadelphia, providing education, workforce and health services to the Latino community. Central to Congreso’s approach is placing the client at the center of all decisions, measuring participant outcomes and creating strategic partnerships. Its...

For more than 100 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America has helped young people reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Today, some 4,000 clubs serve some four million young people, ages 6-18, through membership and community outreach. Trained, professional staff...

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston helps girls ages 7 to 15 realize their full potential by providing them with positive mentoring relationships with women. In addition to matching each "little sister" with a personal "big sister" mentor, the programs Life Choices and TEAM offer group...

Big Brothers Big Sisters is the national office for a network of more than 365 local agencies that match adult volunteers with children facing adversity to engage in professionally supported one-on-one mentoring. Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) has two core programs, community-based and...

First Place for Youth helps foster youth in California find a safe place to live, continue their education, and get their first job. It uses a nationally recognized model to provide some of California’s most vulnerable young people with the tools they need to reach their full potential in...

Cool Girls, Inc. works to improve the academic skills and overall well-being of low-income girls (aged 9-13) who have limited access to community resources. Through a four-pronged service approach, Cool Girls, Inc. provides instruction in life skills and healthy living, offers academic...

Girls Incorporated develops education programs to guide girls to become "strong, smart, and bold." Programs based on its work and research are offered in sites across the nation and focus on areas such as math and science, pregnancy and drug abuse prevention, economic literacy and...

Friends of the Children puts children most at risk of academic failure on the path to productive adulthood. By pairing them with a paid mentor in an intensive, sustained relationship for up to 12 years, Friends of the Children helps youth succeed in school and avoid criminal behavior. OUR...

EMCF often engages The Bridgespan Group, a leading provider of strategic consulting and capacity-building services in the social sector, to assist grantees with strategies to scale their impact. The Bridgespan Group is a nonprofit organization that collaborates with social sector leaders to...

Growth capital fuels an organization’s expansion, but it is difficult for nonprofits to secure because most private and public funding supports the delivery of services. The multimillion-dollar investments that EMCF makes differ from most philanthropic and government grants in that they...

EMCF frequently engages MDRC, a prominent developer and evaluator of interventions to improve the lives of low-income Americans, to help grantees strengthen their evidence base. MDRC has helped eight of the 12  True North Fund   grantees develop evaluation plans, and has undertaken their...

Researcher and evaluator Melinda Tuan describes what the fund's nine initial grantees have accomplished in the first two years of the initiative, the challenges they have faced, and the lessons they—and we—have learned.

EMCF relies heavily on advice from panels of experts in evaluation and communications, and works closely with two strategic collaborators to assist grantees with evaluation and business planning. Members of the Evaluation Advisory Committee and Communications Advisory Committee are much more...

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Committed to transparency, EMCF reports regularly on the performance of the Foundation and its grantees, and on its financial stewardship. Our annual financial statements are posted below. Until 2015 we also posted annual reports, which may be retrieved below as well. Since then we have chosen...

A board of three trustees governs and guides the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation: Nancy Roob , President H. Lawrence Clark,  Chair James McConnell Clark, Jr.

The Social Innovation Fund was a federal initiative that enlisted private intermediaries to help expand evidence-based programs promoting economic opportunity, healthy lives, and youth development. As the fund's largest intermediary, EMCF helped 12 grantees reach an estimated 110,000...

EMCF invests more than money in strengthening promising programs and extending their benefits to more youth. Our commitment includes thorough research, intensive planning, and expert advice. EMCF's performance-based investment approach incorporates six major components: Due Diligence We...

Blue Meridian Partners is a pioneering philanthropic model for finding and funding scalable solutions to the problems that trap America’s young people and families in poverty and limit economic mobility. Blue Meridian’s model helps unlock billions of untapped philanthropic dollars by pooling...