Reports & Financials
Explore New Profit’s recent annual reports and financial documents.
Early Childhood Support Organizations: A New Model for Cross-Sector Collaboration
After a five-year partnership between New Profit and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC), Massachusetts has committed $18.25 million to fully fund Early Childhood Support Organizations (ECSO) over six years. Explore this report to learn how we approached and implemented this cross-sector collaboration, as well as the key insights and recommendations that can support other organizations pursuing similar work in the early education space.
Field Leadership Reports
Beyond the Headlines: Trends and Opportunities in Youth Mental Health
New Profit, in partnership with People Rocket, conducted an in-depth analysis of youth mental health to better understand the current landscape and identify where philanthropic efforts can make the biggest impact.
Unlocking the ‘Black Box’: Human-Centered Algorithm Design as a Tool for Inclusive Funding
New Profit and People Rocket released Unlocking the ‘Black Box’ in Philanthropy: a comprehensive report on pipeline development that uncovered actionable insights for equitable philanthropy. Download today to explore strategies, learnings, and best practices to make your philanthropic efforts more inclusive and impactful.
Deconstructing the Bird Cage: Deconstructing the Bird Cage: How Social Entrepreneurs are Catalyzing Systems Change
This article highlights six social entrepreneurs, and the organizations they lead, that are putting “system impact models” into practice and working day-in-day, day-out to transform the systems that impact the lives of so many people in our nation.
The State of Democracy Entrepreneurship: Insights from New Profit’s Civic Lab
This 2021 report highlights the unique set of challenges democracy entrepreneurs (particularly women of color) face and the role philanthropy can play in removing barriers for proximate leaders.
Rock, Water, Pebble: Three Strategies for Scaling Innovations in Education
The complexity of schools – and therefore the complexity of changing them – has big implications for how we introduce and implement new innovations into school systems. If we think of education systems as geological formations, there are three strategies for scaling innovations: the Rock Strategy, the Water Strategy, and the Pebble Strategy.
Picket Signs and Shovels – Lessons on Parent Power and Systems Change from Umm al-Fahm, Israel
In the wake of COVID-19, communities and systems around the world will be renegotiating their relationships, including parents and their education systems. What will these new relationships look like? In this essay, New Profit shares the story of the Arab-Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, where parents and educators have taken a difficult but transformative journey to navigate a shift in mindsets, relationships, and then power.
