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: Woburn, MA

Youth Villages is a nationally-recognized, private nonprofit organization that helps troubled youth and their families live successfully.  With a high-performing and dedicated staff of more than 2,400 working in 11 states as well as the District of Columbia and an annual operating budget approaching $200 million, the organization serves more than 17,000 emotionally and behaviorally challenged youth annually through its comprehensive, evidence-based programs: intensive in-home services, residential treatment, foster care, adoption, group homes, transitional living, specialized crisis services, and intensive residential treatment.

The organization, founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1986, measures its success in reunited families and in children who are able to live at home and do well in school. Since 1994, when Youth Villages began an emphasis on helping children in the least restrictive environment—preferably in their own homes—success rates have soared: in 2011, Massachusetts data shows that 79 percent of the children who received at least 60 days of service at Youth Villages were discharged successfully and 74 percent of them were still living successfully in the community one year after their discharge. Youth Villages’ success rate is extraordinary when compared with a 60 percent failure rate for traditional child welfare services.

Along with the high impact on children’s lives, Youth Villages has also achieved 15% growth per year for the last fifteen years. President Obama recognized Youth Villages as a nonprofit with “promising ideas that are transforming communities.”  Youth Villages Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Lawler, was named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News and World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

For more information, please visit http://www.youthvillages.org

Location: Cambridge, MA

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on the development of comparative data to enable higher-performing funders. CEP’s mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness – and, as a result, their intended impact. This mission is based on a vision of a world in which pressing social needs are more effectively addressed. It stems from a belief that improved effectiveness of philanthropic funders can have a profoundly positive impact on nonprofit organizations and the people and communities they serve.

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: Boston, MA

The District Management Council (DMC) is a fast-growing, entrepreneurial organization that supports CEO’s of public school districts as they seek to dramatically improve public education through helping them identify and implement management best practices.  DMC’s work falls into three major buckets:  consulting, leadership events and best practices.  Utilizing these three avenues, we serve primarily the largest 2,000 school districts in the nation, some of whom serve more than 1 million students and manage over a billion dollars in annual budgets.  Additionally, District and Community Partners, which is a division of DMC, is recognized as being on the leading edge in improving achievement of students with special needs.

The District Management Council is the nation’s premier network of public school district leaders and believes in creating lasting, positive change by focusing the best strategic and analytical consulting minds in the country on solving the most urgent questions facing public school districts in the United States.

Location: Boston, MA

Currently the nation’s largest search firm working specifically with social entrepreneurs and growth-oriented nonprofits, Commongood Careers is committed to providing best-in-class search services to organizations such as New Profit, Inc., Playworks, Project HEALTH, BUILD, Share Our Strength and KIPP.  Founded in 2005 by a group of nonprofit professionals, we are celebrating our 5th anniversary and are poised for exciting growth.  We are leveraging and expanding our networks, continuing to innovate and improve upon our service delivery model, and have recently re-launched an exciting new career advising practice for socially-driven job seekers.  Commongood Careers is a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and mission-driven work environment guided by the values of Purpose, Diversity, Respect, Innovation, Accountability, and Fun.  To learn more about us, please visit our website at http://www.cgcareers.org