Location: Cambridge, MA

NEW PROFIT INC.’S MISSION AND GOALS
New Profit is a nonprofit venture philanthropy fund that exists to help innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations bring about widespread and transformative impact on critical social problems. We work to fulfill this mission with two approaches: 1) providing multi-year financial and strategic support to help a portfolio of innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations to realize their full potential for social impact; and 2) helping to build an environment in which all innovative organizations may achieve significantly greater impact on the problems they are trying to solve. New Profit believes that just as entrepreneurship and invention have driven our nation’s progress, so too can we harness America’s spirit of innovation, vision, and optimism to help solve our most pressing social problems.
With the support of individual investors and our signature partner, Monitor Group, New Profit works with social entrepreneur-led organizations tackling persistent social problems in education, workforce development, public health, and other areas. In addition, we bring together social innovators from across sectors at the annual Gathering of Leaders, and also drive other initiatives to release the potential of social entrepreneurship. Included among these is America Forward, a nonpartisan initiative that connects social sector innovators and their partners with policymakers, legislators, and thought leaders to advance an infrastructure for innovators and government to act together to scale the impact of proven and promising solutions.

PATHWAYS FUND
The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) is a new competitive grant program housed at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) designed to expand innovative solutions to social sector problems with evidence of strong results in communities throughout America. The SIF represents an exciting opportunity at a critical moment for the nonprofit world, creating a new role for government as a catalyst for philanthropic partnerships that invests in proven solutions and taps into existing expertise and resources within the private and philanthropic sectors.  The SIF is tackling some of the country’s greatest social challenges by enabling effective ideas and organizations to grow and replicate to reach more children, families, and communities. 

New Profit is honored to be selected as a SIF intermediary organization.  In this capacity we have launched the Pathways Fund, which is dedicated to serving low-income youth transitioning from high-school to post-secondary education and productive employment.  The Fund grants dollars and provides necessary support to scale six of our nation’s most promising social innovations that focus on youth development.  The Pathways Fund is helping them to develop their base of evidence and expand their programs to serve 20,000 more low-income people in their teens and twenties in addition to the thousands they already serve.  These organizations are also collectively replicating to several new cities over the next five years, reaching many locations across the country that have not yet benefited from their innovative programs.

Location: San Francisco, CA

The Stupski Foundation is a private, not-for-profit operating foundation whose mission is to improve life options for children of color and poverty through transformation of the public education system.

The Stupski Foundation believes we need a public education system that meets the demands, realities and needs of today’s youth, and engages them actively in their own learning. To get there, we see youth and teachers leading a learning revolution that reinvents American education.  To learn more about Stupski Foundation, please visit us at:  http://www.stupski.org/

The Learning Lab Network:
To help spark innovation in learning, The Stupski Foundation, alongside key partners, has built a network of high school learning labs. The network will undertake a continuous testing and improvement cycle in classrooms to transform learning by incorporating student agency and technology. By sharing the pioneering learning already underway in these schools, we can connect, accelerate and ignite new activities in classrooms that engage youth in the important work facing our schools: conquer academic content, learn to work together, solve complex problems, and apply what works. To ensure that learnings are shared across networks and catalyze important changes in policy, this initiative is aligned with the Council of Chief State School Officers’ Partnership for Next Generation learning and the Innovation Lab Network.

Over the next three years, the Learning Labs will design, test and transform learning. To build a shared evidence base, labs will take common assessments, exchange data with each other, and engage in continuous improvement cycles as we learn what works. Through these repeated cycles, the labs will discover and document concrete practices that improve student agency, embed technology and ultimately result in dramatically increased student learning. Over time, this vital network of innovators will champion the learning successes and promote the practices that empower and educate young people. Together as a network, armed with data, student work, and stories of transformation, we will reinvent American education and expand life opportunities for all youth.

Location: Boston, MA

The Klarman Family Foundation is a Boston-based family foundation, granting approximately $20 million each year to advance its philanthropic interests in the following areas:

• Enriching our local community and working collaboratively to address its urgent needs
• Advancing medical and scientific research, with a particular interest in behavioral health
• Promoting democratic ideals in the US and around the world
• Ensuring a strong and secure democratic, Jewish State of Israel
• Building a vibrant, engaged and inclusive Jewish community with connections to Israel and to the history of the Jewish people
• Promoting access to music for learning, listening and performing

Location: New York

Founded in 1999, iMentor has quickly become one of the largest and most innovative mentoring organizations in New York City.  Over the last nine years, iMentor has developed and refined a technology-enriched mentoring model, combining email communication and in-person meetings. As a result, iMentor can significantly boost the number of skilled professionals willing and able to mentor and bring mentoring to historically underserved communities.  iMentor revolutionizes mentoring by explicitly focusing every component of its model on personal, academic, and career outcomes.

iMentor Interactive (iMi) is one of iMentor’s two flagship programs.  iMi’s mission is to facilitate the development of high quality, high impact mentoring programs by partnering with organizations to implement mentoring programs in iMentor’s model.  This program addresses the most critical challenges facing underserved youth through an innovative combination of technical assistance, technology, curriculum, evaluation and ongoing support.

iMentor offers the opportunity to work at one of the fastest growing and most innovative youth-development programs in the country and to be a part of a diverse, results-oriented, and fun team.  Recently, iMentor was selected for inclusion in the first ever federal Social Innovation Fund and recognized as one of the Best 50 non-profits to Work by The Nonprofit Times.  To learn more about our programs, please visit our website at http://www.iMentor.org.