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Performance Milestones

EMCF investments include performance milestones that the grantee sets in consultation with the Foundation and to which it agrees to be held accountable. Examples of performance milestones include:

  • increasing the number of youth served in current locations
  • adding new locations to increase the number of youth served
  • completing an external evaluation
  • increasing the organization’s budget
  • codifying programs so they can be replicated with similar quality and results
  • aligning staff structure
  • formulating a leadership succession plan
  • diversifying funding sources
  • improving program performance data and using it to drive effectiveness


If an organization meets its initial performance milestones, the Foundation will consider additional grants.

Detailed reports on the performance of our grantees and of the Foundation itself can be found under Results.



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EMCF Named Social Innovation Fund Intermediary


On July 22, 2010, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced it had selected the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation as of one of 11 intermediaries for the Social Innovation Fund (SIF). It has awarded the Foundation a $10 million federal grant to support youth-serving organizations with effective, evidence-based programs and a potential for substantial growth.

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Highlights from the News


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Mentor program aids at-risk kids in Prince George's schools (Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection)
The Washington Post, June 24, 2010

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Proven sex-ed programs get a boost from Obama (CAS-Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program) All Things Considered, National Public Radio, June 6 2010
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The Harlem Children's Zone Featured on CBS 60 Minutes

December 6, 2009

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Nurse home visits for pregnant women could keep their children off the streets in years to come (Nurse Family Partnership)
Newsweek, September 12, 2009

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