Dear
Friends of the Social Innovation Fund,
Thank you
for making #SIFWeek 2017 a spectacular success!
We’re
energized by your support and engagement, and excited about the deepened ties
with current partners and connections with new changemakers. During SIF Week,
our Twitter followers shared the hashtags
#SIFWeek and #SIFundWorks more than 1,300 times! SIF
content was shared by grantees, subgrantees, and social
innovation influencers alike. In case you missed it, below
are some highlights from SIF Week.
I am grateful for this community of
changemakers, visionaries, and leaders who tirelessly work to improve our
communities and look forward to even greater accomplishments this year!
Sincerely,
 Lois Nembhard, Director (Acting)
Social Innovation Fund
Corporation for National and Community Service
Missed
the buzz around #SIFWeek? Check out our Storify or find highlights below:
- The SIF reached a key milestone: its cumulative
federal and matched investments have reached more than $1 billion! Learn how the SIF sets itself apart through its highly
leveraged federal dollar, rigorous evaluations of the programs it funds, and
its knowledge-sharing efforts.
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To help tell the story of the impact that the SIF is
having across the country, we launched an infographic that
explains our footprint through both numbers and maps. Please feel free to pass the image along or
to use it in your materials- and to point your colleagues to download a copy
themselves.
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The National Fund for Workforce
Solutions released its report discussing
how funding from the SIF helped to scale
its workforce development
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Our guest blogger Social Finance shared how they are using their SIF award to advance the efficiency and
scale of current PFS development by introducing a new process approach
through Outcomes Rate Cards, an approach to PFS development successfully
utilized in the United Kingdom.
-
Nathan
Dietz and Benjamin Soskis from the Urban Institute discussed
how the social sector benefits from the SIF’s commitment to supporting a
culture of evaluation in their blog post in the Urban Wire.
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SIF grantees announced 21 new subawards to
nonprofits and state and local governments to address social challenges and
enhance PFS initiatives. Review the national
press release that CNCS posted providing an overview of
#SIFWeek announcements.
And we’re
just getting started—look for continued
communication from us throughout 2017! Let’s
get social:
- Follow
us on Twitter @SIFund—and share your connection
to the SIF
- Keep using our hashtags #SIFund and #SIFundWorks to share your stories about the SIF
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