As Change Capital Fund (CCF) concludes its most recent four-year, $4 million funding cycle, the collaborative has released a final report with public benefit rationales that demonstrate that its grantees’ programs are highly effective and generate a huge return on investment.
With financial and technical support from CCF, all of the grantees have been able to demonstrate impact that translates not only to improved outcomes for residents in their communities but also significant return on investment for government and philanthropic funders. Grantees are seeking to take the next step in increasing the scale of promising pilots and proven programs.
As a result of the collaboration between CCF and its grantees, job training and placements have increased along with wages, hours worked, and benefits. Young people have increased graduation rates, college access, and college persistence. Elementary school students have drastically improved reading scores.
Read the report here.
Findings from public benefit rationales for selected programs include:
- St. Nicks Alliance’s Literary Immersion Model Pilot Project increased the percentage of third graders in their after school program who were reading at grade level from 7% to 31% in a nine-month period. Third graders who read at grade level are four times more likely to graduate from high school than those who do not. See the rationale here.
- CHLDC Student Success Center participants have higher high school graduation, college enrollment, and college persistence rates than a comparable group of similar students. Eighty-seven percent graduate high school, compared with 59-72% of comparable students; 85% enroll in college, compared with 38-49% of comparable students; and 83% complete their first year of college, compared with a CUNY rate of 68%. See the rationale here.
- Similarly, New Settlement Apartments’ College Access Program participants exceeded CUNY persistence and graduation rates. Ninety percent completed their first year of college compared with 66-68% of CUNY students; 81% percent completed two years compared with 55%; and 59% completed college compared with 47-50% of CUNY students. Because we know that education decreases poverty and increases income, New Settlement projects that each dollar invested generates $66 in benefits seen in increased lifetime earnings. See the rationale here.
- Fifth Avenue Committee’s Employment Training Bridge pilots provided remedial math and English tutoring to help participants meet requirements for sectoral job training programs. In one pilot, 83.3 percent of participants were able to achieve the required level for the training programs; and in the other, 82% attained that goal. With an investment of just $144 per participant, participants without a high school diploma or equivalent are projected to earn lifetime earnings of $340,994 more than they would have had the bridge program not been available to enable them to participate in sectoral employment training. See the rationale here.
CCF Gears Up For Next Cohort
As CCF’s current 4-year funding cycle winds down, the collaborative of 17 funders, including newcomer Santander Bank, are gearing up for their next round, releasing a by-invitation-only RFP to a new group of New York City community based nonprofits. The collaborative plans to select new grantees this summer.
The CCF initiative welcomes new donor Santander Bank to the collaborative.
]]>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 building organizational capacity while setting ambitious program outcome goals with their grantees.
The report highlights a few lessons:
At CCF, all donors, regardless of contribution size, bring their expertise and an equal vote. MDRC finds that this “democratization of philanthropy” was further advanced by:
- Including intermediary organizations, such as LISC and Enterprise, at the table, because they are closer to the work in neighborhoods and provide valuable insights.
- Retaining a donor representative with expertise and experience in the fields of community development, philanthropy, and social services to support a reliable feedback loop between grantees and donors.
- Maintaining an active committee structure that accelerated thoughtful decision making across a large group.
MDRC finds that CCF’s dual goals of building organizational capacity for the purpose of leading to better program outcomes distinguishes CCF from most funding which focuses on one goal or the other, but not both simultaneously. The brief advises that this requires greater up-front clarity about purpose and reporting requirements from grantees.
According to MDRC, “there is growing interest in more formal collaboration among donors, given emerging discussions in the philanthropic sector about shared measurement, concerns about shrinking federal and state funding to nonprofits, and acknowledgment that a single donor organization may not be sufficient to help a service provider meet increasing demand or make headway in solving complex social issues. It is an important time, therefore, to discuss what it takes to develop a well-functioning funding collaborative – one that retains donors over the course of the initiative, promotes thoughtful yet streamlined decision making, and defines goals and tracks progress toward their achievement.”
MDRC will release a final report later in 2018 that will share more lessons learned from the CCF initiative and discuss the policy implications of this work.
Read the brief here.
Flying High: A Success Story
The CCF-funded Stronger Together initiative, developed by Fifth Avenue Committee, is helping individuals without a high school degree get on the career path. Here is one story:
Eli Eason was in third grade when he first stepped foot on an airplane, a jumbo 747 en route to Morocco. For eight hours, he toured the plane, met the pilots, and visited the flight deck. From that day, Eli dreamed of becoming a commercial airline pilot.
His dreams were put on hold, though, when he suffered an injury in high school and sunk into a depression that led him to drop out.
A few years later – still wanting to be a pilot – he resumed his journey through the Stronger Together (ST) program. Within six months, he had studied for and passed all five TASC tests required for a High School Equivalency Diploma. Eli then worked with the ST College Transition program to find the right place for his aviation education and training.
Recently accepted to Vaughn College, where he will major in flight operations, he lauds Brian and Carla from Fifth Avenue Committee for their support, guidance, and encouragement – and their investment in him. His dream within reach now, Eli wakes up happy every day. And, he has bigger dreams: once he becomes a pilot, he wants to return to Red Hook to motivate children living in his neighborhood and show them that even the dreams of a kid from the projects can come true.
Donor & Grantee News
New York Community Trust’s Pat Swann has penned an opinion piece for Philanthropy New York, about the progress made in affordable housing, including new tenant protections, investment in eviction prevention legal services, inclusionary zoning created in several neighborhoods, and the mayor’s $1.5 million commitment to explore community land trusts as a housing preservation strategy. But, she also points out there is still work to be done – from protecting immigrant families reluctant to use the court system to thwarting the annual loss of thousands of rent regulated apartments.
Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) has issued, in partnership with the Urban Land Institute, a report, A Vision for a Greener, Healthier, Cooler Gowanus: Strategies to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effect with recommendations that include green jobs for local residents, jobs which the CCF-funded initiative Stronger Together partners are already training local residents for. The report also calls for leveraging the upcoming rezonings to advance the city’s first eco-district. FAC’s Executive Director Michelle de la Uz has written an op-ed for City Limits that discusses how the Gowanus rezoning can be leveraged to create a more equitable and sustainable community.
]]>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 too many young people across the city, particularly those from low-income homes and neighborhoods. Only 18.9 percent of Bronx residents, for example, have a bachelor’s degree. And, while 32.8 percent of Brooklyn residents have a bachelor’s degree, only 14.5 percent of Community Board 5 / East New York residents, where CCF grantee Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation operates, have a college degree. Additionally, just 33 percent of on-time high school graduates from families earning $30,000 or less attain a college degree.
Beyond the cost of tuition, the challenge of enrolling and graduating college for students from low-income homes includes a lack of understanding about the enrollment and financial aid processes and difficulty navigating the college bureaucracy. When students don’t have a family member who can help, they need someone to step in to fill the advisory, advocacy and encouragement roll.
A recent report, Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in NYC, by the
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Center for an Urban Future (CUF), funded by the Clark Foundation, found that New York City community-based organizations support students in getting into and through college, but, “New York has not fully leveraged community-based organizations into its support structure for college access and success.”
- “Students benefitting from CHLDC’s College Success Programs are on the path to success. Over the span of five years (Fall 2012 to Spring 2017), 155 students attained their Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree. Amongst the first cohort of college students, thirty-three percent attained their degrees in under six years – beating the national average (between 18%-24%) for low-income, first generation and minority students.” LINK
- And, “New Settlement Apartments College Access and Success Center furthered students’ academic success and pursuits: Of 140 students who entered a 4-year college in 2015 – 2016, 121 students or 86% are on track to complete their second year of college; 236 students received more than $2.5 million in financial aid for the 2017-18 academic year. LINK
- New Settlement Apartments College Access and Success Center participants increased earnings are 26.8 times the cost of program participation.
- CHLDC’s current College Success Services program cohort is expected to have increased lifetime earnings of $51,026,866. This is based on an increase in individual lifetime earnings of $354,930 when compared to a peer with only a high school diploma or HSE, and an increase in 143 young people persisting for at least one year.
CHLDC was selected to build a mixed-use community-oriented development with 274
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deeply and permanently affordable housing in Cypress Hills/East New York. The development, Chestnut Commons, development by CHLDC, MHANY and Management and Urban Builders LLC, will include classrooms, training rooms, studios and offices that will enable CHLDC to expand their workforce development, college success and youth and family services programs. The site will also include a Kingsborough Community College satellite, Black Box Theater and performing arts center in partnership with Arts East New York and a Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union branch.
Creating Public Benefit RationalesChange 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 Mailman School of Public Health, they are creating public benefit rationales to compare their results and costs against the outcomes and costs for similar populations. The grantees’ public benefit statements demonstrate that their programs merit sustained and scaled investment and point to the need for more access to administrative data.
Below, Ms. Elkins briefly explains why public benefit analysis is an essential tool for service providers and funders alike.
Q. What is a public benefit rationale and why do you feel this is important work for services providers and funders?
A public benefit rationale is a way to clearly illustrate a problem within the community and highlight how a service provider is effectively working to address that challenge. The rationales examine program outcomes and impacts the program will have on clients served and the broader community. Creating a public benefit rationale allows a program to demonstrate both its outcomes and its cost effectiveness when compared to other potential alternatives. In a time when sustaining organizations has become increasingly more competitive, it has become incumbent on providers to show not only that they offer a unique service, but that the service has a positive impact on the community. A public benefit rationale provides the service provider with a key tool that can be used to differentiate itself from others and to monetize the value of its programming.
Q. Where and how did this public benefit rationale work begin for you?
It started at Roca, a nonprofit in Massachusetts that works to reduce recidivism and poverty, where I serve as Chief Strategy Officer. We developed a statement around the costs and impact of delivering our work that eventually led to us being able to secure a $28 million social impact bond. That’s putting it in the simplest of terms. It actually took six years to build out the cost benefit argument, including creating a data system and capturing and analyzing data.
Q. Now you are using the model you created to help CCF grantees create their own public benefit rationales. How is helping CCF grantees different from your experience at Roca?
At Roca, we had a relatively easy argument to make because we work to reduce recidivism and there are well-documented costs for incarceration. When you boil it down, we just had to look at the cost of successfully serving a young person through our program and compare that to the rates of reincarceration for similar young people, and the duration and cost of that incarceration which is $53,500 a year in Massachusetts. Compare the two and you have the cost savings to government.
CCF grantees, like most nonprofits, have a much harder task. There is no dollar figure associated with literacy, for example. That makes it harder for organizations like St Nicks, that invest heavily in literacy in their after-school programs, to make an argument to funders for the financial return on improving a child’s reading. It is also much harder for them to access reading scores, to show that their program work since St. Nicks has to go to individual schools and negotiate the release of the data with principals.
Q. What is the difference between outcomes and public benefit rationales?
Understanding impact is hard work that takes a long time. Building out a data system is expensive and time consuming. And once you have cleared that huge hurdle, you still have the work of collecting good, clean data and figuring out how to make a cost argument.
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (CHLDC) and New Settlement Apartments, for example, tracked college persistence. Luckily, there is a national clearing house that reports college graduations by social security number. But, saying a student in your program graduated – which is what most programs do – doesn’t tell you anything. However, taking that simple outcome and comparing it with the average college graduation rate for similar populations in New York City is an important measurement that allows you to get to your program’s impact. Taking this a step further, telling funders how much more that graduate will earn over a lifetime, or how much more they will contribute to the tax base because he or she got through college is one example of a public benefit rationale.
Q. What are the biggest challenges for nonprofits looking to develop public benefit rationales?
The biggest obstacle is data. Accessing administrative data from government agencies is hugely complicated and time consuming. Roca has been running programming for 30 years and we only got our first direct access to administrative data this year, after several years of negotiations, as a result of our engagement in our pay for success project. Nonprofits too have enormous financials barriers to tracking data – it could cost well over $100,000 to build out a data system, plus nonprofits need staff to manage the data, and entire organizations need to be retrained to always capture good and complete data.
Q. What are the implications to funders?
These types of analyses make it easier for funders to see the potential impact of their grants. St. Nicks could only tell funders how many grade levels a 3rdgrade student went up during the year in their after-school program. Now, they can tell them that seven percent of students were reading at grade level at the beginning of the year and by the end of the year’s program, that number jumped to 36%. That is much more meaningful and impactful data for funders because we know that reading at grade level in 3rd grade is a predictor of academic success in future years, including predicting college enrollment.
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Donor NewsLISC NYC, Citi Community Development and NYC Department of Small Business Services launched the Commercial Corridor Challenge to boost neighborhood commercial corridors and small businesses. Read more in this Crain’s New York Business op-ed coauthored by Eileen Auld, New York tri-state director for Citi Community Development, and Sam Marks, Executive Director, LISC NYC.
At its annual New York Gala on November 15th, Enterprise honored former HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and debuted two new videos: an animated Introduction to Enterprise video and a profile of Traci Hansome, a mother who was connected to a permanent home through our Come Home NYC program.
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Grantees’ Huge Strides
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Devon Gardner (pictured on right) and Jerome Paul
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When Devon Gardner came to CHAMPION, he was unemployed and struggling to support three young children. After completing the CHAMPION program, Devon went to work for an Access-A-Ride company. Devon was mentored by one of CHAMPION’s alumni Jerome Paul, who has risen to the position of dispatcher at the company.
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Fifth Avenue Committee’s newest affordable housing site at 635 4th Avenue, Brooklyn
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FAC may be able to direct some of these graduates to jobs in its own affordable housing development pipeline. FAC now has the largest affordable housing development portfolio in the organization’s history, with over 500 units under management >and 1,100 new units in development, on target to provide housing for thous>ands of low-income people.
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One of New Settlement Apartments’ CASA’s many tenant rallies.
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Beyond school, St Nicks Alliance continued to improve >and exp>and pathways to employment. In its first year, its Skilled Build construction training trained 96 individuals >and placed 80 young adults from North Brooklyn in the booming construction sector.
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Grantee, CCF >and Donor News
What Makes CCF an Effective Collaborative?
ANHD lays out lessons learned >and best practices observed that have “helped Change Capital to work this well for so long”. Check out their new blog, What Makes an Effective Philanthropic Collaborative? Change Capital Fund Turns 20-Years-Old, here.
CCF grantees awarded nearly $2.5 million per year from State’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers
Three CCF grantees – CHLDC, New Settlement Apartments, >and St. Nicks Alliance, received the prestigious 21st Century Community Learning Centers award. The grants will bring almost $12 million over five years to support supplemental services >and enrichments in schools that serve students in most need of additional supports. Learn more here.
Deutsche Bank Receives SHNNY’s 2017 Private Sector Partner of the Year Award
SHNNY presented the award to Deutsche Bank for being “a huge champion of supportive housing virtually since the model’s inception, first through the innovative work of Gary Hattem who led DB’s community reinvestment work, [then through the launch of] the Supportive Housing Acquisition >and Rehabilitation Effort… [>and the] New York Acquisition Fund…” CCF wishes congratulations to John Kimble >and Deutsche Bank.
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CCF Success Stories!
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Student Success Center participant Jessenia.
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Students at the Brooklyn Lab School face some tough odds: about 60 percent of students graduate within 4 years, compared with 73 percent of students city-wide, and the percentage considered “college-ready” is half the city average. Fortunately, Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation’s Student Success Center is there for Brooklyn Lab students, including Jessenia.
Antwone Stanleygrew up homeless. His family lived in abandoned buildings
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Antwone trains a client.
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and one of his jobs was carrying his own water back to where they were staying. He had to be strong.
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Fight for Your (Housing) Right: How New Settlement Apartments Won New Yorkers a Right to Counsel
This summer, NYC became the first city in the country to guarantee legal representation for tenants in Housing Court. It’s a huge victory for tenants and has the potential to transform housing court, preserve affordable housing units on a broad scale, recalibrate the balance of power between tenants and landlords, and help preserve low-income communities from gentrification and displacement.
Getting the Right to Counsel bill passed required a tough fight; New Settlement Apartments’ CASA was there to lead it.
CASA formed the Right to Counsel Coalition in 2014, eventually building the group to include 100 organizations and members. The Coalition, under CASA’s leadership, presented to thousands of tenants, policymakers and advocates across the city, rallied, organized and earned the support of influential City Council Members Vanessa Gibson and Mark Levine, who introduced the Right to Counsel bill.
On August 11, 2017 Mayor de Blasio came to the New Settlement Community School to sign the bill into law. Soon, all CASA members and tenants just like them across the city will have access to an attorney in housing court.
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Donor News
New York Community Trust, New York Foundation and others are ‘launching’ a 2020 Census Funders Work Group under the auspices of Philanthropy NY. The group Census Funders Work Group will meet to consider what philanthropy’s role should be in ensuring that the 2020 Census is adequately resourced and equitably deployed. The Work Group will meet on Thursday October 12th, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, at Philanthropy New York at 1500 Broadway (43rd Street). Please RSVP here: https://philanthropynewyork.org/events
LISC NY recently launched the first cohort of the New York Land Opportunity Program (NYLOP), which was covered by The Wall Street Journal, NY1,CityLand and others. A NY Daily News editorial called NYLOP a “groundbreaking idea” and stated, “Kudos to a new city partnership to help build affordable housing on religious institutions’ property.”
Enterprise partnered with Red Hook Initiative, an organization that engages youth in public housing, to create a video about the Rental Assistance Demonstration program, a federal program to fund repairs in public housing. The video, made by residents, for residents, shows how those living in public housing can take an active role in the process, and how they can better advocate for themselves and their homes.
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CCF GRANTEES IMPROVE DATA USE TO BOOST PERFORMANCE
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MDRC’s fourth brief, Beyond Reporting: Using Data as a Performance Management Tool, continues to chronicle the progress of the Change Capital Fund (CCF) grantees to help move individuals and communities up the economic ladder. This brief focuses on how the CCF initiative has altered staff perceptions and uses of data, moving from data collection to using data to improve programs and outcomes for participants.
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NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS TEEN EXPANDS EDUCATIONAL HORIZONSOver the past three years, our grantees have improved the lives and economic prosperity of nearly 10,000 individuals in some of the most poverty-entrenched neighborhoods in New York City. Their success stems from a stick-to-it approach that results in a continuum of services to help put individuals on the road to economic independence.
Take T.C., a young woman who over the past few years has been helped by New Settlement Apartments.
When T.C was 13, she witnessed a shooting that resulted in her experiencing debilitating anxiety and post-traumatic stress. She was unable to attend high school and, sometimes, she couldn’t even leave her home.
At the age of 17, T.C decided to take charge of her life. She was determined to earn her High School Equivalency Diploma and enrolled in New Settlement Apartments’ Pathways to Graduation program. Her tenacity and drive helped her stay focused and she qualified for the exam in just two months. Moreover, she passed with the highest score of any participant.
New Settlement Apartments then provided T.C. with the opportunity to buildon her success of earning a diploma, enrolling her in the Young Adult Opportunity Initiative (Y.A.O.I) program. There, job developers helped her gain part-time employment at the Hyde Leadership Charter School as a Tutor for young students.
But, they didn’t stop there. New Settlement Apartments’ College Access Center helped get T.C on the path to college. She will be a freshman at Rhode Island College this fall.
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[hr] Donor NewsEnterprise, in partnership with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, has provided $3.5 million in funding to four New York State municipalities and counties to establish or strengthen Community Land Trusts (CLTs) that preserve affordable housing and revitalize communities. In New York City, $1.65 million will help expand the city’s only CLT and support two new ones as well as support a learning exchange for nascent CLTs. |
By Celeste Frye and Doneliza Joaquin, Public Works Partners (www.publicworkspartners.com)
In the third year of the Change Capital Fund (CCF), grantees-Cypress Hill Local Development Corporation (CHLDC), St. Nick’s Alliance (St. Nick’s), Fifth Avenue Committee’s Stronger Together (Stronger Together) and New Settlement Apartments (New Settlement)-have continued their collective efforts to reduce poverty in their neighborhoods through workforce, adult education, youth education, and housing development.
- Programs have maintained or increased participation.
- Quality of job placements increased as represented by hourly wage, number of hours worked, and benefits received.
- Retention is up in workforce programs.
- College access programs exceeded goals and citywide outcomes.
- Adult education training increased participation and exceeded achievement goals.
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- 200 of 425 placements were identified as having benefits, such as health insurance.
- The average hourly wage for participants increased from $10.55 in Year 1 to $12.82 in Year 3. FAC saw the largest growth of nearly $2 an hour.
- The average participant hours worked per week continued to increase to 33.89 hours per week.
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The Census is the basis for allocating more than $53 billion per year to New York State for the 16-largest census-guided programs alone, including funds for education, housing, social services, transportation, job training, health care, and crime prevention. The state uses census data to allocate its own resources to local governments.
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Three years ago, with the help of a long-term investment by the Change Capital Fund collaborative of donors, St. Nicks Alliance undertook an ambitious effort to ameliorate poverty through three pathways: housing, employment and education.
St. Nicks Alliance has made considerable progress on all three fronts. They helped approximately 305 households avoid illegal evictions, created 162 units of new affordable housing, and trained and placed 140 people into jobs. But perhaps their greatest impact has been in improving education outcomes among local students.
In recognition of their success, St. Nicks Alliance, in partnership with School District 14, was awarded $880,000 annually for five years from the NYS Education Department’s 21st Century Community Learning Center.
“We successfully adapted community based school partnership to produce measurable student improvement and academic success,” says Executive Director Michael Rochford. Since the project was launched, 700 children have improved school outcomes.
Moreover, St. Nicks Alliance’s innovative Transformational Coaches, an approach that provides intensive and comprehensive supports to individual clients, has made huge strides in helping the most at-risk students, who are referred for services by their schools. “Using data and tracking progress towards outcomes, we have proven that our Transformational Coaching approach works as measured in the outcomes achieved by children receiving intensive services and strong partnerships with the schools’ principals,” continued Rochford.
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Center for Economic Opportunity Announces New Name, Releases Latest Poverty Data at Forum on Using Evidence and Innovation to Reduce Poverty
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Center for Economic Opportunity is now the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity).
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Over 47,000 young adults, more than 20 percent of all Bronx 16- to 24-year-olds, are neither in school nor employed. In some neighborhoods, that number soars to 35%. The future prospects of these young people is severely limited by the gaps in their education and work skills.
New Settlement Apartments is tackling this problem through their Young Adult Opportunity Initiative (Y.A.O.I), which provides a host of services that address barriers to employment and education. But, NSA doesn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach, instead they provide each one of their current 165 participants with an individually crafted plan that sets them on a course toward a productive young adulthood – with a priority placed on continuing their formal education, paid internship placement, paid vocational placement, and/or gaining paid employment.
Their results to date are proof that their approach works. Of the 2016/17 participants:
· 86% completed the intensive 3-month program
· 37 participants gained employment with an $11 per hour wage; 74% remain employed after 3 months
· 22 participants were placed in internships
· 34 participants were placed in job training
· 15 participants enrolled in college
L.R. was one of those participants. Over a concentrated 12-month period – from April 2016 to April 2017 – L.R. benefited from every possible program component and support provided 
by the Y.A.O.I to meet his educational and employment goals.
L.R. on a trip to Ally Pond Park, where he built his confidence in an out-of-the-box way.
L.R was assisted by NSA’s Job Developers in securing seasonal part-time employment at the U.S Open and then secured full-time stock/clerk employment at the Morton’s Supermarket in Manhattan where he continues his employment. L.R successfully completed the YAOI Level 1 TASC/GED classes in September 2016 and passed the TASC exam February 2017. He was referred to New Settlement Apartments’ College Access Center and was assisted in the submission of his CUNY College Application. He’ll be off to college this fall.
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BankUnited has joined the Change Capital Fund!
BankUnited joined CCF’s 16 donors to support community development in New York City. The bank is now one of eight banks, six foundations, two intermediary organizations and NYC Center for Economic Opportunity, representing the City, which are assisting community development corporations to develop and demonstrate the benefits of neighborhood-based, anti-poverty strategies and to develop business models based on their programmatic success.
Naima Oyo, Vice President Community Development & Outreach said, “BankUnited is thrilled to join the Change Capital Fund. We believe in building the capacity of the organizations that are so essential to the residents of New York City’s high poverty neighborhoods. Change Capital Fund is offering what is most needed by community development corporations: flexible, longer-term, larger grants that help them grow to the next level and technical assistance to enable them to track their outcomes in ways that improve their programming.”
Steven Flax, chairman of the Change Capital Fund said, “We are delighted to welcome BankUnited as an important new donor to our long-standing collaborative.”
Donor News
Enterprise’s Judi Kende and Father Michael J. Callaghan of Nazareth Housing write in CityLimits about a proposed program that would eliminate rent burden among NYC’s seniors living in rent-stabilized housing.
Patricia Swann, Senior Program Officer, New York Community Trust, will co-chair the Change Capital Fund in its fourth year.
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Applications for the Summer Leadership Course will be launching in May 1st.
This is the Advocacy Institute’s most comprehensive program and an amazing way to develop new skills, collaborate with other advocates, and cultivate resilience. Apply here.
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What’s the Outlook on Outcomes?
Join the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Nonprofit Finance Fund on June 5, 2017 for the launch of their new book, What Matters: Investing in Results to Build Strong, Vibrant Communities. This event kicks off a national dialogue on how we can all work together toward lasting outcomes.
Visit investinresults.org or email events@nff.org for more details.
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