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Youth Villages is a leading national nonprofit providing effective local solutions that help America’s most emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth and their families live successfully. It serves youth from birth to age 22 with a continuum of evidence-based in-home and residential...
Year Up’s Boston chapter offers youth “a foot in the door of corporate America.”
The Children’s Home Society of North Carolina (CHSNC) is the main provider of child placement and permanency services in that state. It supports healthy, loving environments for children and families with programs ranging from adoption and foster care to teen pregnancy prevention and parent...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy describes EMCF’s plans to maximize its impact on children and families living in poverty.
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The Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa is a community-wide collaboration to build a continuum of services for the poorest children in Tulsa County, OK. The Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa (BEST) is an initiative spearheaded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation to provide a...
WINGS for Kids helps low-income children in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and California develop healthy social and emotional learning skills through an innovative afterschool program. WINGS’ well-codified curriculum of more than 30 different social and emotional learning (SEL)...
Youth Guidance offers an array of school-based programs that enable disadvantaged youth in Chicago to succeed in school and in life. Its innovative program, Becoming a Man, helps young males in the city’s most distressed public schools develop social and cognitive skills that reduce...
Together with Leap of Reason, we are launching a series of videos sharing real-world lessons, as recounted by PropelNext grantee CEOs, about how they led their organizations to achieve greater impact and higher performance by using data and rigorous performance management systems.
Ultimately, better listening will ground us in reality while we try to address the needs of the people we seek to help and build a more just society.
A rigorous evaluation of Year Up’s impact demonstrates the large earnings gains for young adults in its workforce development program.
Pace Center for Girls provides girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training and advocacy. Its holistic model responds specifically to the developmental needs of girls and is recognized as one of the nation’s most effective programs for...
Lissette Rodriguez and Danielle Scaturro describe in The Chronicle of Philanthropy how an evaluation of PropelNext’s first graduating class confirms the value of helping nonprofits collect and use data.
BellXcel , formerly BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life), provides intensive academic and enrichment support to young “scholars” (grades K–8). Its flagship summer program combats summer learning loss among under-resourced students and targets students performing below grade level. The...
Figures alone cannot capture the transformative impact our extraordinary grantees are making on individual lives. This year, we augment our yearly report on performance with videos and stories that illustrate how disadvantaged young people, with our grantees' help, are beating the odds and becoming...
Our yearly report on performance, with videos and stories that highlight our grantees' visionary leaders.
Reading Partners helps elementary school students who are struggling with reading accelerate their pace before it’s too late and improve their reading skills. Reading Partners operates reading centers in schools in low-income communities where trained, supervised volunteers provide one-on-one...
Nurse-Family Partnership ® is a nurse home visiting program that has been proven to help first-time mothers and families living in poverty improve their lives and the lives of their children. Specially trained nurses regularly visit low-income expectant mothers during their first pregnancy and...
Upstream USA provides training and technical assistance to health centers so they can offer patients in a single visit the full range of contraceptive methods, including Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC)―intrauterine devices and subdermal implants that are safe and 20 times more...
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) helps people who have been incarcerated find and keep jobs that provide a foundation for a productive future. Its program has been shown to reduce the recidivism of recently released participants and to save taxpayer dollars. CEO offers a...
