How the Poses Family Foundation is Leveraging Dollars for Impact through Public-Private Partnerships
Kessler Foundation's participation in a pooled funding initiative, NYC: AT WORK, began with a partnership initiated by the Poses Family Foundation. The project itself began as a collaboration between the (New York City) Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) and the foundation’s Workplace Initiative, which connects people with disabilities to living-wage jobs in high-growth industries across the city’s five boroughs.
By leveraging the strength of the Poses Family Foundation's public- and private-sector partners, as well as MOPD's own networks and coalitions, the project accomplished double-bottom-line objectives around targeted capacity building and community improvement. The beauty of the approach is that it increases opportunities to leverage limited resources and contributes to the development of learning networks through which partners can share valuable information and solutions...