Innovation at Work
- Lends $24 million in Cash Flow Loans to 400 nonprofit organizations annually.
- Makes over $2 million in strategic grants to nonprofit and government projects every year.
- Supports an average of 20 new nonprofit or government projects in an "incubator" program.
- Fund President Mary McCormick receives the first annual New Leadership Skills Award in San Francisco, one of four Positively Making a Difference Awards honoring those who have challenged conventional thinking and unjust practices to significantly improve organizations and the world.
- Winner of the 1994 and 1995 Microsoft Windows World Open for the most innovative use of technology among government or nonprofit organizations in the United States.
- Home to the Sloan Public Service Awards, which honors six extraordinary public servants every year with cash awards and public ceremonies.
- Solves real-life problems for the disenfranchised with use of Internet technologies.
- Acts as a pivotal force in New York City and around the country for policies and programs for young people.
- Guided the New York City Beacons Initiative, which now has 80 Beacons centers with 100 thousand members — the largest demonstration of youth development in the nation.
- Developed the successful Human Rights Case Tracking System for the Internet — a system adapted for use by the Ombudsman's Office in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo.
- Trains 4,000 nonprofit staff every year in technology and computer applications.
- Introduced hand-held computers to community organizations to record and quantify neighborhood conditions, so that City agencies can resolve issues more quickly.
- Released results of an unprecedented research project that uses laser technology and citizen input to produce the first reliable, objective ratings of the smoothness of New York City's streets.
- Helped to coordinate the effort that brought multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis
under control.
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