SUCCESS STORIES

Evidence-based practice is a hot topic in the nonprofit sector. Foundations and nonprofit organizations are eager to define what works with more precision. The concept comes from the field of medicine and suggests that clinical decisions made by doctors should be backed up by data.

The concept makes intuitive sense but is actually quite rare in practice.  In the field of medicine, for example, authoritative sources ranging from the National Academy of Sciences to the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment have estimated that over half of clinical practice in medicine are based on concepts that have not been proven. Continue Reading »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Christian Science Monitor

With over six million people unemployed in the U.S., the effort needed to remain positive and engaged in a job search is a struggle. Jobs are few, and competition is fierce. Training, Inc., a program of the YMCA of Greater Boston, is highlighted in the Christian Science Monitor for providing  encouragement and emotional support for people who have been out of work for a long time to continue their job search.

Featuring Training, Inc., a grantee of the A. C. Ratshesky Foundation.

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Our movement is not just about changing laws. It’s about changing hearts and minds.
–Deivid Ribiero.

Young people have helped shape all of the major struggles for social justice of the modern era. As in the past, young people are starting to figure more prominently in recent efforts to reform immigration and increase access to higher education. Continue Reading »

GMA Foundations hosts a lunchtime office hour every other month for grantseekers seeking an informal orientation to GMA Foundations and an opportunity to discuss developments in the field.   These events are scheduled for February, April, June, August, October, and December.  For details please call Susan Haff at 617/391-3092.  Please call for information about the February event.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Katya Fels Smyth, Founder and Principal of the Full Frame Initiative, offers a critique of the federal government’s Social Innovation Fund that plans to award $50 million in its first year of grants. She writes, “After-school programs are not pills. And experimental design studies alone cannot tell us whether something works absolutely all the time, as the Government Accountability Office and other experts have noted.”

Featuring the Full Frame Initiative, a grantee of the Edwin S. Webster Foundation.

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GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The New York Times

The New York Times profiles Inner City Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting small, urban business owners through programs such as their nine-month “StreetWise MBA.”

Featuring Inner City Entrepreneurs, a grantee of the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation.

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