New York City’s Nonprofit Resiliency Committee Tackles Sector Challenges Change Capital Fund is honored to be among the 70 plus organizations participating in the New York City Nonprofit Resiliency Committee being convened by Deputy Mayors Buery and Palacio. We applaud the administration for directly addressing the challenges of this vitally important sector. [space_20] CCF […]
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December 2016 Newsletter: Tribute to Gary Hattem
Tribute to Gary Hattem upon his retirement from Deutsche Bank A Note from CCF Donor Representative Wendy Fleischer: The Change Capital Fund (CCF) donor collaborative and the whole community development sector owes a debt of gratitude to Gary Hattem for his inspired leadership and outsized contributions. In 1996, while at Deutsche Bank, Gary co-founded CCF along with Steve […]
November 2016 Newsletter: CCF Grantees Access Department of Labor Data to Improve Outcomes
Change Capital Fund’s grantees are among first New York nonprofits to gain access to government jobs data for outcomes tracking purposes Legislation enacted in 2013 amended the New York State labor laws to make it possible for the Department of Labor (DOL) to share unemployment insurance (UI) data for certain purposes, including: evaluating program effectiveness, improving the quality […]
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
Delivering Coordinated, Community-Based Services by Putting Networks into Action
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. This brief is the third in a series by MDRC. This brief describes how CCF grantees’ service coordination efforts have helped to place individuals without extensive work histories in higher-wage jobs, to […]
October Newsletter: Grantee’s Continue to Make Progress
Grantee’s Continue to Make Progress – Year 3 Unlike the usual business model where funding is fragmented and funding decisions are made without adequate focus on geographic targeting, CCF pools philanthropic support to provide flexible funding to enable strong organizations in high poverty neighborhoods innovate and integrate their programs and data. We think more flexible funding […]
106.7 Lite FM Get Connected with Nina Del Rio: Change Capital Fund
Good morning and thanks for joining us at Get Connected with the profile of the Change Capital Fund, a collaborative of 16 donors, both corporate and nonprofit, joining together to fund a small group of community-based organizations in an effort find better ways to improve the lives of low-income New Yorkers. One of the funds’ beneficiaries […]
September Newsletter: CCF, Grantee, and Donor News
CCF In The News “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 of 30 percent-nonprofit service providers work in a myriad of ways to help children and families in need with education, job training and placement, and […]
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 […]
1010 WINS The Bottom Line For Small Business: Champion Network for Young and Unemployed Adults
Ever wonder who drives the paratransit vans that take your neighbor to the doctor or the food trucks that keep your grocery store shelves stocked? Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation is putting young men and women into those driver seats through the new CHAMPION Network Program. The program offers young unemployed adults a career in […]