Change Capital Fund’s Grantees Demonstrate Poverty-Busting Programs Generate Public Benefits and Pay for Themselves As Change Capital Fund (CCF) concludes its most recent four-year, $4 million funding cycle, the collaborative has released a final report with public benefit rationales that demonstrate that its grantees’ programs are highly effective and generate a huge return on investment. […]

MDRC Brief Highlights CCF Lessons for Donor Collaboration MDRC’s fifth brief, Investing Together: Promising Strategies from a Donor Collaborative, is the final brief in a five-part series documenting the Change Capital Fund’s four-year economic mobility initiative. MDRC’s brief highlights promising strategies that may promote effective donor collaboration and help donors manage the dual objective of […]

CCF Grantees Improve College Success Rates Getting a college degree is a ticket out of poverty. An adult with a college diploma earns more than double than one with a high school degree. Twenty of the 25 fastest growing city-based jobs with salaries over $50,000 require a college diploma. But college completion remains elusive for […]

Creating Public Benefit Rationales Change Capital Fund’s grantees have been increasing their capacity to implement cross-program tracking systems, use program data to analyze progress and confront pitfalls, and understand the true and full cost of achieving an outcome. Now, with the help of Lili Elkins, Chief Strategy Officer at Roca and Associate Professor at Columbia University’s […]

Grantees’ Huge Strides   Three and a half years into the 4-year CCF initiative, grantees continue to make huge strides in providing more and more residents from persistently low-income neighborhoods with the services and support they need to succeed.  Grantees are scaling programs that work and, with increasingly sophisticated data, relentlessly improving programs to achieve […]

CCF Success Stories! Over the past three years, CCF grantees have touched – and moved forward – the lives of nearly 10,000 New Yorkers living in poverty.  Through their innovative and persistent efforts – Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, Fifth Avenue Committee/ Stronger Together, New Settlement Apartments, and St. Nicks Alliance – children and adults have improved their prospects. CCF […]

CCF GRANTEES IMPROVE DATA USE TO BOOST PERFORMANCE MDRC’s fourth brief, Beyond Reporting: Using Data as a Performance Management Tool, continues to chronicle the progress of the Change Capital Fund (CCF) grantees to help move individuals and communities up the economic ladder.  This brief focuses on how the CCF initiative has altered staff perceptions and uses of data, moving from data collection to using […]

Increased Service, Improved Outcomes Among CCF Grantees in Year 4 By Celeste Frye and Doneliza Joaquin, Public Works Partners (www.publicworkspartners.com) In the third year of the Change Capital Fund (CCF), grantees-Cypress Hill Local Development Corporation (CHLDC), St. Nick’s Alliance (St. Nick’s), Fifth Avenue Committee’s Stronger Together (Stronger Together) and New Settlement Apartments (New Settlement)-have continued […]

St. Nicks Alliance Successful CCF Pilot Gets Funding to Serve More Children Three years ago, with the help of a long-term investment by the Change Capital Fund collaborative of donors, St. Nicks Alliance undertook an ambitious effort to ameliorate poverty through three pathways: housing, employment and education. St. Nicks Alliance has made considerable progress on […]

Opportunity Youth Expand their Horizons Over 47,000 young adults, more than 20 percent of all Bronx 16- to 24-year-olds, are neither in school nor employed. In some neighborhoods, that number soars to 35%. The future prospects of these young people is severely limited by the gaps in their education and work skills. New Settlement Apartments […]