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Nancy Roob

Nancy Roob is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. Before becoming president in 2005, she was the Foundation’s vice president and chief operating officer. Her duties included overseeing the team responsible for identifying and recommending major multi-year investments in high-performing youth-serving organizations across the United States. Before that, Roob played a key role in helping develop and implement the Foundation’s current grantmaking strategy, which seeks to improve the life prospects of young people from low-income backgrounds by helping organizations that work with these youth improve and expand their services. During her early years at the Foundation, Roob developed its Program for New York Neighborhoods, which launched community-building and neighborhood-stabilization projects in the South Bronx and Central Harlem.

Before joining the Foundation in 1994, Roob worked for the Boston Persistent Poverty Project, a program of the Rockefeller and Boston foundations; the Fund for the Homeless, a project of the Boston Foundation; and the Child Care Resource and Referral Center, also in Boston.

Roob is a graduate and trustee of Hamilton College, and holds a master's degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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Nine Organizations Selected to Receive Social Innovation Fund Awards

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is investing up to $42 million over three years in nine organizations whose evidence-based programs promise to transform the life trajectories of thousands of low-income youth. In support of these grantees, the Foundation is establishing the True North Fund to leverage public money from the SIF and private money from the EMCF and institutional and individual philanthropic partners to effectively capitalize and expand programs that can serve more vulnerable young people.

A Families-First Approach to Foster Care

(Youth Villages) The New York Times, February 21, 2011

Nonprofit Pairs Up Nurses With Struggling First-Time Moms

(Nurse-Family Partnership) Huffington Post, March 14, 2011

Enlisting Professionals as Part-time Educators

(Citizen Schools) NBC Nightly News, October 15, 2010

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Highlights from the News

May 07, 2009
With Stimulus Aid Coming, Charities Need to Build on Success
The Chronicle of Philanthropy,
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November 11, 2008
Charity begins in the office
The Financial Times,
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March 29, 2008
Nonprofits look to invest in themselves
The Financial Times,
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March 09, 2008
For Good, Measure
The New York Times Magazine,
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January 10, 2008
Three charities win money to vastly expand operations
Chronicle of Philanthropy,
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January 06, 2008
Can foundations take the long view again?
The New York Times,
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December 21, 2007
New fund to help charities add efficiency by growth
The New York Times,
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December 20, 2007
Doing due-diligence on your donations
The Wall Street Journal,
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December 12, 2007
For-profit lessons for nonprofit giving
Marketplace (National Public Radio),
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November 12, 2007
How long should gifts grow?
The New York Times,
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October 19, 2007
Fantasy philanthropy baseball- Compete for capital!
Slate.com,
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September 06, 2007
Way to grow: Charities use business practices to rapidly expand their programs
Chronicle of Philanthropy,
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May 21, 2007
Business-oriented venture philanthropists
Financial Times,
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February 16, 2007
Uncharitable thoughts: Are foundations elitist, anti-democratic, and In danger of losing their tax exemptions?
Slate.com,
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February 09, 2006
A singular focus on kids: Clark Foundation sees success in its controversial youth program
Chronicle of Philanthropy,
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