Recipients of the CNCS "Social Innovation Fund" Announced, including iMentor and other mentoring related projects

The Corporation for National and Community Service has announced its inaugural Social Innovation Fund grants, a new federal funding stream designed to leverage public and private funds to develop effective solutions to persistent social challenges. The grants were highly competitive (that might be an understatement), and of the 11 funded efforts there are several mentoring initiatives, or partnerships that include a mentoring component, including funding to the Strive initiative in Cincinnati (for more information about Strive see forum post: http://mentoringforums.educationnorthwest.org/node/93) , and New Profit Inc. which will fund Year Up and iMentor, among other programs

The SIF grants were awarded to eleven organizations that represent a broad range of nonprofit organizations and private and community foundations working to address needs in three identified issue areas: economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development/school support. The funding is a tiered model with a one to one match requirement at each stage designed to leverage federal funding ($1 federal dollars translates to $3 program dollars).

Press release: http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr...

Details about grantees: http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/serveamerica/innovation_grantees_20...