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Nancy Roob, who joined the foundation in 1994, has assumed a key part in helping it create and actualize its current grant making strategy, which is designed to recognize organizations the country over that excel in working with youngsters from low-income foundations and help those organizations strengthen and expand their projects.

Nancy Roob says she and the EMCF group were convinced it was vital for nonprofits to have the money they have to grow in advance. To that end, the GCAP was created to test a new approach to collaborative philanthropy.

Nancy Roob, CEO of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) says that vast, multimillion dollar long term investments without any restrictions provide demonstrated nonprofits the capital they have to develop. And it's this sort of funding that nonprofit organizations normally have the hardest time raising.

Nancy Roob's duties will include overseeing the group responsible for identifying and recommending significant multi-year investments in high-performing youth-serving organizations over the United States.

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) thought long and hard before it applied in 2010 to become one of the initial intermediaries of the Social Innovation Fund (SIF).