The SIF is elevating proven community solutions, helping build scale through philanthropic leverage and evaluation of results to fund programs that work.

WHITEHOUSE: The Social Innovation Fund Adds Four New Intermediaries to its Portfolio | The White House

Another SIF intermediary, AIDS United, is using mobile engagement teams and telemedicine technology to reach the most chronically ill with specialized interventions that improve quality of life.

WHITEHOUSE: The Social Innovation Fund Adds Four New Intermediaries to its Portfolio | The White House

After its completion, the President directed the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to launch a cornerstone initiative of the new law, the Social Innovation Fund (SIF).

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Groups like the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment ( US SIF) and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility ( ICCR) invest their money ethically, and are made up of state, religious, and education pension funds among others.

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For example, the SIF grant-making intermediary Venture Philanthropy Partners is reaching thousands of disconnected teens in the lowest income neighborhoods of Washington, DC, with strategies that are resulting in success in high school, college admission, and success in college.

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