The foundation focuses on strengthening nonprofit youth development organizations so they can better serve more young people with high-quality programs. The foundation's approach to grantmaking is primarily focused on individual institutions. Key to the foundation's approach is a comprehensive, multistage process used to identify promising youth development organizations, assess their overall capabilities, and subsequently invest in the growth of those organizations most capable of benefiting from this kind of support. With a deep desire to improve the lives of many more disadvantaged children and youth, the foundation's trustees have decided to "sunset" the foundation and spend all of its resources (approximately $1 billion) over the next decade. Through this period of dramatically accelerated giving, it will continue to provide large infusions of growth capital to effective nonprofits and their visionary leaders.
titles from this organization
Sustaining Change: PropelNext Alumni Results One Year Later
Apr 1, 2017
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; Harder+Company Community Research
Designing Scholarships To Improve College Success: Final Report On the Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration
Nov 16, 2015
Publisher(s): Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC)
Gateway to College: Lessons from Implementing a Rigorous Academic Program for At-Risk Young People
Sep 1, 2015
Publisher(s): MDRC
Becoming Adults: One-Year Impact Findings from the Youth Villages Transitional Living Evaluation
May 1, 2015
Publisher(s): MDRC
Boosting the Life Chances of Young Men of Color: Evidence From Promising Programs
Jun 25, 2014
Publisher(s): MDRC
An Experiment in Scaling Impact: Assessing the Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot
Dec 1, 2012
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Reframing the Conversation: Expanding the Impact of Grantees: How Do We Build the Capacity of Nonprofits to Evaluate, Learn and Improve?
Dec 13, 2011
Publisher(s): Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
Reframing the Conversation: How Can Grantmakers Aggregate Resources to Grow Impact?
Sep 30, 2011
Publisher(s): Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
PropelNext Alumni Study: The Road to High Performance
Jun 1, 2018
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; Harder+Company Community Research; Engage R+D
Sustaining Change: PropelNext Alumni Results One Year Later
Apr 1, 2017
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; Harder+Company Community Research
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Youth Development Fund: Results and Lessons from the First Ten Years
Sep 12, 2013
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
An Experiment in Scaling Impact: Assessing the Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot
Dec 1, 2012
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Scaling What Works: Implications for Philanthropists, Policymakers, and Nonprofit Leaders
Apr 20, 2009
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
An Experiment in Coordinated Investment: A Progress Report on the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot
Oct 28, 2008
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation - 2007 Annual Report
Jul 24, 2008
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation - 2006 Annual Report
Jul 24, 2007
Publisher(s): Edna McConnell Clark Foundation