CCF Grantees Progressing Toward Dual Goals: Increasing Outcomes and Building Organizations Change Capital Fund (CCF) invests in sophisticated community organizations that have developed, and are now executing, poverty-fighting strategies to create communities of opportunity. The four-year initiative is unusual in its dual focus on increasing economic mobility in high-poverty neighborhoods and increasing grantees’ organizational capacity. […]
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December 2015: Using data to transform high-poverty neighborhoods
December 2015 – IN THIS ISSUE – Neighborhoods Count: Using Data to Transform High Poverty Neighborhoods forum co-hosted by CCF and Philanthropy NY | St. Nicks Alliance launches NABE 3.0 | CCF’s new website launches | City Limits coverage | Donor news Experts Discuss Using Data to Transform High-Poverty Neighborhoods (L to R): New York Community Trust’s Pat Swann; Mathew Klein, NYC […]
Experts Discuss Using Data as an Anchor for Multi-Service Strategies
Community organizations, evaluators, and government agencies discuss new efforts to use data to evaluate and track outcomes and the accompanying big challenges of unifying fractured systems given their number, divergent metrics and conflicting regulatory requirements.
New St. Nicks Program Tackles Poverty in North Brooklyn
St. Nick’s Alliance has launched a new initiative to tackle poverty head on in North Brooklyn. Nabe 3.0 will offer residents affordable housing, literacy and employment assistance for adults, afterschool programming for local kids, and help organize tenant associations.
St. Nicks Alliance Introduces Nabe 3.0, an Innovative New Initiative to Fight Community Poverty, and Celebrates 63 Affordable Apartments
NABE 3.0, addresses poverty in North Brooklyn, and showcased 63 new affordable apartments in the Williamsburg neighborhood.
Banks, Foundations Get Behind an Unsexy Fight Against Poverty
Residents of the Cypress Hill section of Brooklyn often walk off the street to a clinic run by Jamaica Hospital not because they’re sick, but because they’re seeking a job. “We get a lot of people who are interested in health care, but if you’re not a nurse or doctor, it’s difficult to get into […]
October 2015: A Year of Progress
A Year of Progress October 2015 – IN THIS ISSUE – Creating Neighborhoods of Opportunity: Year One, by CCF Board Chair Steven Flax, Administrative VP, M&T Bank; Community Reinvestment Group, Regional CRA Manager | MDRC report on CCF: The Promise of a Community-Based Approach to Economic Opportunity | Kate Dempsey, NYC Center for Economic Opportunity Director of Strategy and […]
The Promise of a Community-Based Approach to Economic Opportunity
MDRC, the nation’s preeminent social policy research organization dedicated to learning what works to improve programs and policies that affect the poor, is evaluating the CCF initiative. MDRC recently issued the first of five briefs they will create over the next four years. This brief describes the grantees’ neighborhoods and their strategies to fight poverty […]
The Promise of a Community-Based Approach to Economic Opportunity
LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS no longer experience the levels of communitywide disinvestment that they did through the 1990s, but their residents still face significant poverty, risk of displacement, and limited economic mobility. For this reason, Change Capital Fund (CCF), a New York City donor collaborative, formed to invest in sophisticated community organizations that implement data-driven strategies integrating […]
Standing O is standing together with the Fifth Avenue Committee
Let us unite and put our hands together for the Fifth Avenue Committee, the genius group behind the Stronger Together initiative. The program is a new partnership developed by the award-winingF.A.C., Brooklyn Workforce Innovations, Red Hook Initiative, and Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation to reduce poverty by providing free job training and placement, adult education, and […]