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Who We Fund

We close the “second stage” gap between seed and scale-up by making a small number of meaningful grants to high-potential nonprofit organizations attacking root causes of poverty in the NY-NJ-CT area.

Second Stage
To ensure the best ideas cross the second stage funding gap, we provide capital and expertise to those organizations that are off the drawing board and onto the growth curve.

Typically these nonprofits:
• Are between one and ten years old
• Have budgets below $2M
• Employ 2-10 staff
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High-Potential
Identifying high-potential organizations is both an art and a science.   We believe – regardless of the issue area – that the best grant candidates share common characteristics:
• Management demonstrating vision, tenacity and humble leadership with a record of achievement in a related field
• Model which can produce measureable outcomes

Root Causes of Poverty
We support programs making deep investments in people – solutions that attack the root causes of poverty, rather than just the symptoms.  We focus our grantmaking in the fields of: 
• Education
• Youth development
• Employment
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