CityBridge History

Early Work in International Health
CityBridge Foundation was launched by Katherine and David Bradley in 1994. Originally formed as “The Advisory Board Foundation,” CityBridge was created to be a small, best-practices enterprise operating within its parent, The Advisory Board Company, also founded by the Bradleys. The original CityBridge purpose was to extend the best-practices rubric of The Advisory Board to selected problems in international development and pediatric health. Over time, CityBridge worked in Russia, the Philippines, South Africa, and in a joint venture with Johns Hopkins University Hospital’s Listening Center.
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Service and Civic Engagement
CityBridge has operated ServiceCorps, a turn-key corporate volunteer program, since 1995. ServiceCorps was created for The Advisory Board Company and the Corporate Executive Board, where employees demonstrated clear demand for structured opportunities to serve others in Washington. The program offers local corporations a menu of options for meaningful civic engagement, including outsourced management of all aspects of individual and team service, tracking community impact, providing specialty services such as board training and placement, and designing signature philanthropic projects. In 2006 ServiceCorps managed more than 30,000 hours of direct community service for four partner companies in the Washington, D.C. region: Atlantic Media, CapitalSource, Corporate Executive Board, and The Advisory Board Company.
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CityBridge Education
In the summer of 2000, CityBridge began our (long, slow) investigation into national best practices for combating entrenched, multi-generational poverty—all with the intention of launching a new, signature program in Washington, D.C. We considered many models, read about and met inspirational social reformers, and finally selected urban education—specifically early educational intervention—as our chosen point of entry. CityBridge launched the Early Years Education Initiative in 2006. This five year initiative will invest $8 million in expanding the capacity and improving the quality of early childhood education in the District of Columbia.
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