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Opinion: The City’s Nonprofits are Also Essential

Working from home, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) Executive Director Damaris Reyes has activated the emergency mode for LES Ready!, a coalition created during Hurricane Sandy, to coordinate the actions of some thirty nonprofits in Lower Manhattan in times of disaster. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, LES Ready! Members are calling on […]

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What Makes an Effective Philanthropic Collaborative? Change Capital Fund Turns 20-Years-Old

Change Capital Fund, gearing up for its 20th year, has proven to be an unusually effective philanthropic collaborative. The Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development (ANHD) has long believed that philanthropy – both by banks and private foundations – should focus much of their giving at the local level to neighborhood-based organizations that are effectively […]

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NYN MEDIA INSIGHTS PODCAST ON CHANGE CAPITAL

NYN Media interviews Wendy Fleischer who serves as the donor representative for the New York City Change Capital Fund, which is a collaborative of 15 funders who support community organizations and especially economic development corporations, working to increase economic mobility in the city’s lowest income neighborhoods. Hear the interview here: http://nynmedia.com/news/nyn-media-insights-podcast-on-change-capital-and-changing-leaders

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The Renewal Project: How a $5 million plan to tackle New York City’s most persistent poverty is paying off

With 16 donors from public and private sectors, Change Capital Fund looks to cross-sector solutions to inequality PATRICIA SWANN Sr. Program Officer for New York Community Trust   One out of five New Yorkers live in poverty. But poverty is not randomly distributed in every neighborhood. In neighborhoods of concentrated poverty—where poverty rates are upwards […]

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NEXT CITY: How 16 NYC Funders are Collaborating to Fight Poverty

The following article was published by Next City.  You can find the article at: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/change-capital-fund-nyc-contsortium-community-development BY OSCAR PERRY ABELLO | JUNE 2, 2016 When Michelle Neugebauer came onboard in 1983 as the first full-time employee at the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (CHLDC), it was an entirely different time in Brooklyn. Residents — mostly white and middle class […]

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CCF Wins Corporate, Foundation and Family Philanthropy Award

On March 3, 2016 Change Capital Fund was recognized with the Special Award for Innovation in Fighting Poverty & Building Communities Through Philanthropy by City & State Report.  CCF donors Cecelia Tanaka, Vice President, JPMorgan Chase, and Gregory Schiefelbein, Senior Vice President, Citi Community Development, accepted the award on behalf of the funding collaborative. Read more […]