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 […]