Greenlight Fund

To meet its mission in the eleven cities where it operates, the Greenlight Fund does the following:- runs an annual process to identify critical community needs; searches the country to find innovative, results-oriented nonprofit approaches to meeting needs; conducts rigorous diligence on these nonprofits to understand their outcomes, revenue model, replicability, and potential fit on the local landscape; and selects one organization to import into the city that shows the greatest promise of making a significant, measurable impact as cost effectively as possible.- supports organizations it selects with financial and non-financial assistance. Greenlight typically provides around $600,000 over an organization's first four years in the new city, helps attract talented leadership to their local staff and boards, takes a seat on their local boards, facilitates partnerships and additional resources, and supports and monitors progress to become sustainable in the new location.- launches organizations in the community by showcasing them at events where they can build awareness and recruit new supporters.since its founding in boston in 2004, the Greenlight Fund has imported fourteen organizations into boston: friends of the children-boston, raising a reader-massachusetts, peer health exchange, youth villages' lifeset program, uptogether, single stop usa, the new teacher center, college advising corps, blueprint schools network, caremessage, youth guidance: becoming a man, per scholas, youth guidance: working on womanhood, and child first.since 2012 when it was established in philadelphia, Greenlight philadelphia has imported single stop usa, year up, center for employment opportunities, parentchild+, compass working capital, hopeworks, and the fountain Fund into the city.since 2012 when it was founded in the san francisco bay area, Greenlight bay area has imported genesys works, uaspire, springboard collaborative, blueprint math fellows, parentchild+, everyone on, and food connect into the bay area. Since 2015 when it was founded in cincinnati, Greenlight cincinnati has imported center for employment opportunities, uptogether and first place for youth, the literacy lab's leading men fellowship, and homestart renew collaborative into the city. Since 2016 when it was founded in detroit, Greenlight detroit has imported center for employment opportunities, new teacher center, and springboard collaborative into the city.since 2017 when it was founded in charlotte, Greenlight charlotte has imported parentchild+, center for employment opportunities, and alternatives to violence into the city. Since 2018, when it was founded in Kansas city, Greenlight Kansas city has imported youth guidance: becoming a man, youth guidance: working on womanhood, and all our kin into the city. Since 2019 when it was founded in atlanta, Greenlight atlanta has imported center for employment opportunities, the literacy lab's leading men fellowship, and inner explorer into the city.since 2020 when it was founded in the twin cities, Greenlight twin cities has imported let everyone advance with dignity into the city.since 2021 when it was founded in baltimore, Greenlight baltimore has imported point source youth.in 2022, Greenlight Fund launched its eleventh site, greater newark, and began its first selection process in 2022.across Greenlight Fund's eleven locations, in 2022 greenlight-supported organizations reached 565,744 children, youth and families with their innovative programs that are achieving measurable results in their efforts to transform lives.