The release of the final NOFA followed a one-month public comment period that generated over 200 public comments from a broad array of stakeholders, including potential intermediaries, nonprofit organizations and experts with deep experience in grantmaking, social change, evaluation, replication and expansion.

“The input of the nonprofit and philanthropic communities has greatly improved the final product that we’re publishing today,” said Stephen Goldsmith, the Chair of the Corporation’s Board of Directors. “This is a key first step toward providing the financial capital and the ideas to focus public and private resources on what works, so our nation can make dramatic progress on key social challenges.”

The NM Commission for Community Volunteerism would like to thank everyone that attended the town hall meetings on December 15th & 16th. Over 125 people turned out to provide feedback!

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The Notice of Funds Available for the Social Innovation Fund has just been released. Over the next 45 days, the Corporation for National and Community Service and the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation encourage you to review and respond to these regulations.

In Fiscal Year 2010, the Corporation will award up to $50 million in Federal funding to an estimated five to seven intermediary organizations. Annual awards, which will extend for five years, are expected to be in the range of $5 to $10 million and must be matched 1:1 in cash.

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Anticipated $200 million in public-private funding will support transformative solutions to major social challenges and improve nation's challenge-solving infrastructure

WASHINGTON, DC – The Corporation for National and Community Service released a draft Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for its 2010 Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant competition today. The Corporation is soliciting public feedback on the funding notification through January 15, 2010.

“The bottom line is clear: Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots – and government shouldn't be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts,” remarked President Barack Obama at a June 2009 gathering of nonprofit and philanthropic leaders. “Instead of wasting taxpayer money on programs that are obsolete or ineffective, government should be seeking out creative, results-oriented programs like the ones here today and helping them replicate their efforts across America.”