New Profit Inc.
Project Title
As a final grant for youth mental health investments
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
The Corporation invests in the creation of new schools and education programs through a select number of national partner organizations adept at sourcing, vetting, and scaling new ventures. Founded in 1998, New Profit is a leading venture philanthropy organization that has allocated over $350 million and provided strategic advisory support to more than 200 organizations working to strengthen education, economic mobility, and democracy. In response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic along with heightened demand from educators, students, and families, Corporation support enabled New Profit to develop a portfolio of ventures, the Mental Health Equity Cohort, focused on supporting student and educator mental health. With Corporation support, New Profit provided extensive coaching to expand the reach and impact of the cohort, which includes sixteen organizations working across ten states and virtually on key issues such as access to mental health services and social connections to peers. This final grant will enable New Profit to capture learning from those investments and empower entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to engage in the youth mental health sector.
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For supporting a cohort of organizations working to advance the mental health of young people
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
The disruptions and trauma of the past three years have compounded the mental health challenges facing our nation’s youth and the educators that serve them, a trend that was evident pre-pandemic and that continues to disproportionately impact students from marginalized groups. One strategy to spread emerging practices that address this challenge is through partnerships between expert intermediaries and schools; another is to make investments in portfolio organizations adept at sourcing, vetting, and supporting organizations at various stages of development. New Profit is one such partner, which with this proposed scope of work will identify and build the capacity of organizations focused on young people’s mental health and wellbeing. New Profit provides individual and cohort-based supports to leaders of education organizations looking to strengthen organizational leadership, demonstrate model impact, and achieve meaningful scale. With Corporation support, New Profit will select, fund, and support a cohort of eight organizations working to advance the mental health of young people.
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For incubating and building capacity of organizations to inform policy and practice
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
In order to prepare students for long-term success, we believe that their learning experiences must be comprehensive, comprising rigorous academic preparation and socio-emotional learning. Promising models that integrate these experiences exist, but they often struggle to undertake the complex work of scaling while maintaining both program quality and responsiveness to community needs. One strategy to proliferate emerging practices is through partnerships between expert intermediaries and schools, and Corporation grantmaking has contributed to the creation and growth of intermediaries adept at facilitating these partnerships. New Profit advances this strategy by providing individual and cohort-based supports to leaders of intermediary organizations looking to strengthen organizational leadership, demonstrate model impact, and achieve meaningful scale. New Profit focuses on funding efforts to create and spread high-quality learning environments and to empower and activate stakeholders in co-creating these learning environments.
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For incubating and building capacity of new organizations to inform policy and practice
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
21 months
Description
Education models based on personalization, mastery, and positive youth development have been shown to have positive impacts on student achievement, yet many practitioners don’t have the capacity to scale such models broadly. One strategy for promoting scale with quality is through the cultivation of a variety of intermediary organizations (such as New Visions for Public Schools in New York City) that can partner with schools and districts to launch new program models. New Profit has a twenty year track record of doing just that, and with Corporation support, will expand upon its intermediary capacity building efforts in two key ways: 1) Working with partner social entrepreneurs and education nonprofits to specifically support the needs of diverse learners (students with disabilities, English language learners, racial/ethnic minority students, and low-income students) and 2) Building the capacity of actors that work in concert with nonprofits, such as parents, youth, and policymakers, to drive transformation of learning environments nation-wide.
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Project Title
For a practitioner network on learning and action for parent empowerment and leadership in education
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In order to sustain enduring change in education systems, we need to build the national capacity of local actors to inform, organize, and empower parents and families to be driving forces for change in education in their communities. While there are bright spots demonstrating the potential to achieve this, these efforts are often very local and siloed. With Corporation support, New Profit, a nonprofit venture philanthropy fund, proposes to create a practitioner network on parent organizing and leadership in education that brings together a diverse set of existing and emerging practitioners. This network of practitioners would work together to build their own capacity through sharing and co-problem solving; identify sector-wide solutions that build an infrastructure of impact and lower the barriers for more actors to enter this space; and create an effective pipeline for more practitioners of color who lead this work. New Profit plans to launch this network by developing a common language and framework for how to measure and manage performance across a continuum of parent organizing strategies.
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As a final grant for the Social Innovation Fund intermediary strategy
Date
Mar. 06, 2014
Duration
24 months
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Project Title
For support of the Social Innovation Fund intermediary strategy
Date
Mar. 07, 2013
Duration
12 months
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Project Title
For support of the Social Innnovation Fund intermediary strategy
Date
Mar. 10, 2011
Duration
24 months