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Organization - MDRC
Grant Amount - $359,714
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - in support of the planning and design phase of three anti-poverty demonstration projects in NYC using conditional cash transfers, which are incentive-based grants designed to reduce poverty and promote positive nutrition, health, and education, workforce and other outcomes among poor families in the short term, in an effort to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty in the long term
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Mexican Health Foundation - $179,590 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in support of a U.S.-Mexico learning exchange on the conditional cash transfer program, Progresa/Oportunidades, which provides incentive-based grants to reduce poverty and promote nutrition, health and education, and to prepare a report of...
New York City Center for Economic Opportunity - $5,000,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the costs of designing, operating and evaluating Opportunity NYC, a demonstration project of three conditional cash transfer programs aimed at reducing poverty in New York City
National Center on Education and the Economy - $150,000 from the Mott Foundation - The federal Workforce Investment Act, passed by Congress in 1998, requires the establishment of business-led Workforce Investment Boards in local communities across the country. The purpose of the Workforce Investment Boards, of which there are...
MDRC - $250,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in support of developing a learning network to promote the exchange and dissemination of information and research on the effectiveness of Opportunity NYC, New York City's conditional cash transfer program
Solpath - $150,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant provides support for the further development and promotion of GrantsFire, a system which aggregates and publishes grants information using Web 2.0 tools and technology. Currently in an initial pilot phase, GrantsFire makes up-to-date...
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