| U.S. Census Bureau Releases Supplemental Poverty Measure
November 7, 2011
The U.S. Census Bureau released a research report on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure. This effort was informed by the work of the NYC Center for Economic Opportunity, which released its first report on an alternative measure for New York City in 2008. The new Supplemental Measure provides a more realistic picture of poverty by accounting for both families’ resources and their expenses. This work is based on the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences.
 U.S. Census Report (in PDF)
Statement by Mayor Bloomberg
CEO Poverty Measure Reports |
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| Young Men's Initiative Expands Young Adult Literacy Program
October 11, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg announced the expansion of the Young Adult Literacy Program from 12 to 17 sites through the Young Men’s Initiative. The program aims to improve literacy and math skills for disconnected youth. The program was originally launched by CEO and DYCD in partnership with the New York, Brooklyn and Queens Public Libraries, and several non-profits.
Read the Press Release
Download CEO’s Evaluation Report (in PDF)
Learn more about Young Men’s Initiative
Visit Department of Youth and Community Development |
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| Jobs-Plus Concept Paper
October 28, 2011
The Human Resources Administration (HRA), in partnership with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO), and the Mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative have issued a Concept Paper for Jobs-Plus. The Jobs-Plus model aims to increase earnings among housing residents by saturating selected developments with employment services, rent-based and other financial incentives, and community-building activities that support work. Click here (in PDF) to access the concept paper.
*Deadline to submit comments is December 22* |
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| Family Rewards Memphis Launches
September 21, 2011
Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, Jr., announced the launch of Family Rewards-Memphis. Family Rewards is one of five CEO programs being implemented in cities across the country as part of the Social Innovation Fund initiative. Family Rewards is a conditional cash transfer program designed to reduce poverty and improve human capital development.
Memphis Press Release (in PDF)
Social Innovation Fund Overview
Family Rewards Description |
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| Mayor Bloomberg Announces Training Grants
September 13, 2011
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the latest round of NYC Business Solutions Training Funds to four businesses in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. The workforce training grants program, administered by the Department of Small Business Services, helps small businesses to expand and create jobs by training new and existing employees to give them the up-to-date skills they need to grow. CEO provides two-thirds of the funding for this program, with the federal Workforce Investment Act providing the remainder. Participating employers are also required to contribute.
Mayor's Office Press Release
CEO Program Profile
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| Project Rise Kansas City Launches
September 6, 2011
Kansas City Mayor Sly James announced the launch of Project Rise, one of five CEO program being replicated in cities across the country through the federal Social Innovation Fund. Mayor James was joined by representatives from the Kansas City providers, Catholic Charities of Kansas City- St. Joseph and the Full Employment, and by funders, which include United Way of Greater Kansas City and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Kansas City Press Release (in PDF)
CEO’s Social Innovation Fund
Project Rise Overview |
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| Mayor Bloomberg Launches Young Men's Initiative
August 4, 2011
The Young Men's Initiative is the nation's most comprehensive effort to tackle disparities between young black and Latino males and their peers. This cross-agency effort will include the expansion of several CEO programs, including young adult internship and literacy programs, a workforce development program, and Jobs-Plus, a workforce development program for residents of public housing. Providers will be selected through Requests for Proposals to be posted on City Agency websites in the coming months.
Read the Press Release
Read the Mayor's Remarks
Download the Report (in PDF)
Learn more about CEO Programs |
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| Arches Project Approach
The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, in partnership with the Department Probation (DOP) and the Center for Economic Opportunity are issuing Arches: A Transformative Mentoring Intervention Project Approach. Part of the Young Men’s Initiative, Arches transformative mentoring is a curriculum-based group mentoring intervention that helps justice-involved young adults transform the attitudes and behaviors that have led to criminal activity. It serves young people whose needs go far beyond the traditional mentoring approach of companionship, confidence-building and minor academic, social or career guidance. Click here (in PDF) to download the Arches Project Approach. All comments are due November 4, 2011. |
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| Financial Empowerment Center RFP
The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs Office of Financial Empowerment is seeking community partners to implement the Financial Empowerment Center initiative. Financial Empowerment Centers provide New Yorkers with the gold standard of financial education: free, confidential, and individualized financial counseling.
* Deadline September 16 *
Download the RFP |
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| Corporation for National & Community Service Announces Funding for Social Innovation Fund Intermediaries
August 4, 2011
The federal Corporation for National and Community Service has awarded the Mayor’s Fund a $5.7 million grant to support the second year of Social Innovation Fund (SIF) programming. The Corporation has also announced five new grantees, for a total of 16 SIF Intermediaries. The Corporation’s press release included a profile of a participant and one of CEO’s 18 sub-grantee organizations, Per Scholas (Bronx, NY).
Press Release
CEO’s SIF Initiatives |
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| SIF Learning Network Kick-Off
May 5-6, 2011
Individuals from 18 non-profit organizations, local governments, and foundations attended the two-day Learning Network Kick-Off Event to develop programs and share best practices. Special Guests included Paul Carttar, Director of the Social Innovation Fund at the Corporation for National and Community Service, Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
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Learning Network Newsletter (in PDF) |
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| Learning Together: How Families Responded to Education Incentives in New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
May 2011
This report on the Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards program, prepared by MDRC, draws on in-depth interviews and looks at how families viewed the education incentives, communicated about them with their children, reinforced educational rewards, and advanced their quality of life through the program. This research helps to inform the new, second-generation Family Rewards program to be launched as part of CEO’s Social Innovation Fund initiative.
Download the report
Learn more about Opportunity NYC
Learn more about SIF Family Rewards |
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| State of the NYC Workforce Report to Help City Better Serve Employers and Jobseekers
May 2011
"One System for One City," the first annual report on New York City’s menu of workforce development services, offers a comprehensive picture of publicly funded and administered employment, training and workforce education programs in New York City, including demographic information on customers served as well as a complete program inventory.
Download the report (in PDF) |
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| CEO Applauds Nursing Graduates
May 12, 2011
Six students from CEO’s Nurse Career Ladder Program have received bachelor degrees and will be hired as Registered Nurses at city public hospitals. This program, a partnership with Long Island University-Kings County Hospital, provides scholarships to low-income students and helps them to launch careers in nursing.
Read the press release
Learn more |
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| CEO Releases Annual Report
May 4, 2011
The new report, titled Replicating Our Results, highlights CEO’s successful programs and provides an overview of the CEO poverty measure, an improved measure that captures the impact of policies and programs on low-income families. The report also describes CEO’s Social Innovation Fund initiatives.
Download the Report (in PDF) |
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| Harvard Names CEO to “Top 25 Innovations”
May 4, 2011
CEO was named to the Top 25 Innovations in Government by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. CEO and the other awardees represent the creative problem solving of local, state, and federal municipalities around the country.
Read the press release
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| Social Innovation Fund Providers Announced
April 1, 2011
CEO and Mayor's Fund have finalized provider selection for CEO’s five Social Innovation Fund programs. Each SIF program will be implemented in partnership with seven cities in order to build a national body of evidence in support of successful programs. The competitively selected providers will receive $5.7 million in federal grants, to be matched by private fund.
Learn more
Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Overview |
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| Mayor Bloomberg Encourages New Yorkers Sign Up for One of the Remaining 250 SaveUSA Accounts
March 30, 2011
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz encouraged New Yorkers who file their taxes at select Volunteer Income Tax Assistance sites to sign-up for one of 250 SaveUSA accounts remaining. The SaveUSA program offers participants a 50 peremt atch, of up to $500, if they dposit at least $200 into a SaveUSA account and maintain the deposit for one year. SaveUSA is one of five programs to be implemented in New York City as part of the Social Innovation Fund.
Read the Press Release
Learn more about SaveUSA
Learn more about the Social Innovation Fund |
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| CEO Releases New Poverty Measure Report Showing How Policy Affects Poverty
March 21, 2011
The NYC Center for Economic Opportunity’s new working paper, titled "Policy Affects Poverty" tracks the change in the CEO poverty rate during the Great Recession. The paper explores the extent to which policy initiatives – including the Presidents Bush's and Obama’s stimulus programs and the City’s effort to increase Food Stamp enrollment – kept the New York City poverty rate from rising.
Download the "Policy Affects Poverty: The CEO Poverty Measure, 2005-2009" (in PDF)
Read more about the CEO Poverty Measure |
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| NYCETC Awards Leadership Prize to CEO Executive Director Veronica White
March 16, 2011
CEO Executive Director Veronica M. White received the New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC) Leadership Award at the organization’s annual Opportunity Awards Reception. The award is presented to the individual whose leadership has been essential to advancing workforce development in New York City.
CEO Workforce Programs
New York City Employment & Training Coalition |
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| CEO Receives Award from Citizens Budget Commission
March 2, 2011
The Citizens Budget Commission awarded the 2011 CBC Prize for Public Service Innovation to CEO’s Innovation Fund. The Prize was presented by Mayor Bloomberg to CEO Executive Director Veronica M. White at CBC’s 79th Annual Dinner. CEO’s Innovation Fund was selected for its impactful performance-based approach to assessing and advancing poverty alleviation program.
CBC Release (in PDF)
CEO Reports |
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| SIF Jobs-Plus Providers & Funding Announced
February 8, 2011
CEO and the Mayor’s Fund announced that providers in two cities will offer Jobs-Plus, one of five CEO programs to be launched as part of the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) initiative. Jobs-Plus is a site-based, workforce development program, originally designed by SIF partner MDRC, that works with residents of public housing to increase employment and earnings. Support for the program is provided by the Corporation for National and Community Service, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Open Society Foundations, Morgan Stanley, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Catholic Charities of San Antonio. Morgan Stanley also announced a grant to support the implementation of an additional pilot program that will provide on-site financial counseling services - a first for Jobs-Plus.
The selected providers for this program are:
- BronxWorks (New York City, NY)
- San Antonio Housing Authority (San Antonio, TX)
New York City Press Release
CEO's Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Overview
Learn more about SIF Jobs-Plus
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| CEO Releases Evaluation of Young Adult Literacy Program and the Impact of Adding Paid Internships
January 2011
This report, prepared by Westat and Metis Associates, examines the literacy and numeracy gains for the young adults enrolled CEO’s Young Adult Literacy program who were also offered a paid internship. Using a cluster randomized design, the study suggests that adding paid internships conditioned on attendance in education services led to increased attendance and program retention, as well as an increase in participants’ math gains. CEO’s Young Adult Literacy program is administered by the Department of Youth and Community Development, and the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens public libraries.
Download the Report (in PDF)
Learn More |
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| SIF Family Rewards RFP Released
January 12, 2011
The Mayor’s Fund and the NYC Center for Economic Opportunity have released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the SIF Family Rewards Program, which provides cash incentives to families for achieving milestones that lead to better health, education, and employment outcomes, in New York City and Memphis, Tennessee.
* Proposals due Friday, February 18 at 3pm EST *
Download the RFP |
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| Young Adult Justice Programs Concept Paper
January 10, 2011
The Department of Probation plans to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) that will include programming for young adults involved in the criminal justice system. The goals of the Young Adult Justice Programs are to reduce crime and recidivism and to promote lifelong educational gains, career exploration, employment attainment and retention, and community/civic engagement for court-involved young adults.
*Deadline to submit comments is February 4*
Download Concept Paper (in PDF) |
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| Teen ACTION Concept Paper
January 4, 2011
DYCD plans to issue a Teen ACTION Request for Proposals (RFP). Continuing the initiative launched in 2007 in collaboration with CEO, the RFP will seek qualified service providers to operate service learning programs for youth in grades 7 through 10. It also will seek a technical assistance vendor to provide training on the sexual and reproductive health component of the Teen ACTION program. In advance of the release of the RFP, DYCD has developed a Concept Paper that outlines the vision and rational for the Teen ACTION programs going forward.
*Deadline to submit comments is February 1*
Download Concept Paper (in PDF)
Program Overview |
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| Mayor Bloomberg Highlights Social Innovation Fund in Weekly Radio Address
January 2, 2011
In his weekly address, Mayor Bloomberg highlighted the innovative job training and social service programs that were awarded Social Innovation Fund grants to be replicated in New York and other cities.
Read the press release (En español)
Listen to the radio address |
