It’s a Family Affair [space_20] Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) has been helping adults earn their high school equivalency diploma since 2003, but it wasn’t until they launched Stronger Together and began collaborating with four organizations to deliver services to Red Hook public housing residents that they noticed the positive impacts of family participation. [space_20] FAC is coordinating programming with […]

DYCD Launches DYCD Connect, a Major Step Toward Program Integration   On February 1, Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) Commissioner Bill Chong brought together community stakeholders to learn about DYCD’s vision for greater program integration and the technology upgrades that will support it.  The agency recently created a  new mission statement and has undergone an internal process to […]

New York City’s Nonprofit Resiliency Committee Tackles Sector Challenges   Change Capital Fund is honored to be among the 70 plus organizations participating in the New York City Nonprofit Resiliency Committee being convened by Deputy Mayors Buery and Palacio. We applaud the administration for directly addressing the challenges of this vitally important sector. [space_20] CCF […]

Tribute to Gary Hattem upon his retirement from Deutsche Bank A Note from CCF Donor Representative Wendy Fleischer: The Change Capital Fund (CCF) donor collaborative and the whole community development sector owes a debt of gratitude to Gary Hattem for his inspired leadership and outsized contributions.  In 1996, while at Deutsche Bank, Gary co-founded CCF along with Steve […]

Change Capital Fund’s grantees are among first New York nonprofits to gain access to government jobs data for outcomes tracking purposes Legislation enacted in 2013 amended the New York State labor laws to make it possible for the Department of Labor (DOL) to share unemployment insurance (UI) data for certain purposes, including: evaluating program effectiveness, improving the quality […]

Grantee’s Continue to Make Progress – Year 3 Unlike the usual business model where funding is fragmented and funding decisions are made without adequate focus on geographic targeting, CCF pools philanthropic support to provide flexible funding to enable strong organizations in high poverty neighborhoods innovate and integrate their programs and data.  We think more flexible funding […]

CCF In The News “One out of five New Yorkers live in poverty. But poverty is not randomly distributed in every neighborhood. In neighborhoods of concentrated poverty-where poverty rates are upwards of 30 percent-nonprofit service providers work in a myriad of ways to help children and families in need with education, job training and placement, and […]

Technical Assistance Helps Grantees Measure and Improve Impact   In addition to the $1 million CCF provides each of its four grantees, the funding collaborative also provides technical assistance.  Here, TA provider Celeste Frye, principal at Public Works Partners, discusses her work with grantees.[space_20] 1.    How have you been working with Change Capital Fund over the […]

Ensuring Success, No Matter What! Change Capital Fund (CCF) grantees are taking a long-term approach to serving individuals who come through their doors–and that includes helping people overcome all the barriers that stand between them and their future success. Traditionally, nonprofits have been tasked with providing one-time services based on immediate client needs, but that […]

Improving Education Outcomes During the first two years of receiving Change Capital Fund funding, grantees have been building out their poverty-fighting models and tracking the impact of their work.  One area of focus for three of our four grantees (Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, New Settlement Apartments and St. Nicks Alliance) has been to improve […]