PropelNext is proud to be part of the RISE Partnership, a three-year, $3 million program that will amplify the impact of Philadelphia area nonprofits.
We announced the RISE Partnership (Readiness, Implementation, and Sustainability for Effectiveness) in late 2018 along with The Scattergood Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and other funders. The initiative will combine resources, expertise and tools to strengthen the effectiveness of more than 100 nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region.
We are joined in this effort by The Barra Foundation, Campbell Soup Foundation, The Grace S. and W. Linton Nelson Foundation, The Horner Foundation and The Philadelphia Foundation.
The RISE Partnership in the Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey community is our first regional cohort outside of California. It is based on our PropelNext program and The Scattergood Foundation’s Building Evaluation Capacity Initiative (BECI), which was developed and implemented in partnership with The Consultation Center at Yale University.
Please visit www.therisepartnership.org
The program builds off the assets of the community and will provide a range of tools and services to support organizations working to improve the lives of people in the area. These include: training and support to build Readiness for measuring and driving program outcomes; Implementation of an intensive program of internal evaluation capacity building; and Support for an alumni learning community to sustain and extend gains achieved.
From The RISE Partnership Funders:
“We recognized the impressive work of these nonprofit organizations whose missions parallel our own and who have a solid foundation in the greater Philadelphia area,” said Lissette Rodriquez, Vice President and Chief Program Officer at EMCF. “We chose to invest in The RISE Partnership to help scale up PropelNext’s national work, leverage these strong partner organizations and provide resources to nonprofit leaders to use data — to understand what’s working and what’s not — and then refine their programs based on these learnings for stronger outcomes.”
“We are thrilled to launch this partnership at such a large scale with so many promising nonprofits and the backing and in-depth knowledge of a national funder like EMCF/propelnext,” said Joe Pyle, President of The Scattergood Foundation. “Nonprofits in the Philadelphia region have big jobs — to tackle society’s most complex problems — and limited time and resources to make much-needed impact. The RISE Partnership will provide nonprofits that are trying to improve the lives of people in their communities with the tools they need to strengthen the work they already do.”
“We are proud to lend our unique convening ability to help bring additional organizations, funders and other stakeholders to the table to strengthen the work of some of the region’s most impactful nonprofit organizations,” said Bill Golderer, President and CEO of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. “As a result of our collective investment and effort, 100 regional nonprofits will serve more individuals and communities in need with higher-quality programming based in evidence and data to scale the interventions proven to work successfully.”
“We are so excited to see the growth of this initiative into a regional partnership that includes local and national funders that will work together and learn from the strong non-profit community,” said Samantha Matlin, PhD, Director of the RISE Partnership and Evaluation and Community Impact at the Scattergood Foundation.