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NETWORK SOLUTIONS: 2008 Annual Report Now Available
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's 2008 annual report summarizes the progress we made over the past year and continues the practice begun two years ago of documenting publicly the performance of the Foundation and our grantees. As the report shows, most of our grantees met their 2008 targets. Given the current economic uncertainty, however, the Foundation is working with its grantees to readjust their 2009 and 2010 goals.
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Scaling What Works: Taking Advantage of What We Know and Today's Opportunities
Nancy Roob, EMCF president, and Jeffrey L. Bradach, managing partner and co-founder of the Bridgespan Group, describe the opportunities and challenges presented by the Obama administration’s commitment to investing in social innovation and “what works.” If government, philanthropy and nonprofit groups work together closely in a new kind of partnership, Roob and Bradach argue, they can expand proven programs and make real progress toward solving seemingly intractable social problems.
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Nurse-Family Partnership Expanding Its Reach Throughout the Country
President Obama’s proposed 2010 budget would establish a nationwide nurse-home visitation program, calling for more than $1.5 billion by 2016 to ensure that every eligible low-income first-time mother in America, an estimated 570,000 a year, can benefit from such services.
EMCF grantee Nurse-Family Partnership, a nurse home-visitation program proven to improve the long-term health and well-being of poor first-time mothers and their children, is expected to be a primary recipient of the proposed funding. Nurse-Family Partnership's successes have garnered wide recognition from Time magazine to the CBS Evening News.
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President Obama and Others Call Harlem Children's Zone a National Model for Replication to Address Poverty
President Barack Obama has repeatedly cited Harlem Children's Zone, led by Geoffrey Canada, as a model for tackling poverty and the barriers low-income youth must overcome to achieve economic self-sufficiency and healthy, productive adulthood.
In a videotaped address in 2008, Obama called the long-time EMCF grantee "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck, anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children."
Harlem Children's Zone's success in transforming the lives of youth, writes New York Times columnist David Brooks, is real. In a recent column, Brooks discusses the research of Roland Fryer, a Harvard economist who demonstrated that the organization's Promise Academies produced "enormous gains" that "eliminated the black-white achievement gap."
President Obama's proposed budget for 2010 supports the creation of "promise neighborhoods" throughout America modeled after HCZ to improve "academic achievement and life outcomes in high poverty areas."
