1992 Child Welfare Fund (CWF) founded by an anonymous donor in collaboration with David Tobis at Hunter College . For the chronology of the Child Welfare Fund go to the Child Welfare Fund page of the FSC website or the website of the Child Welfare Fund.

2001 FAR Fund founded by an anonymous donor in collaboration with David Tobis.

2002 CWF and the Open Society Institute create the Partnership for Family Supports and Justice (PFSJ), which becomes a collaboration between ten foundations and the Administration for Children's Services, designed to create a community network of services to prevent foster care placements in Highbridge, the Bronx (the Bridge Builders program).

2002 The Child Welfare Fund, the FAR Fund, and the Partnership for Family Supports and Justice are joined administratively under the Fund for Social Change.

2002 Voices of Youth, with the help of the Fund for Social Change, sends a delegation to Stockholm, Sweden to present its model for youth advocacy at an international conference on alternatives to residential institutions.

2002 Sista II Sista with Downtown Community Television, Inc. produces You Have the Right to Break the Silence , a video documenting harassment and violence, including police violence, against young women of color.

2002 The Justice for Youth Coalition's, No More Youth Jails Campaign, successfully stops New York City from spending $64 million on building 200 youth jail beds in the Bronx and Brooklyn.

2002 The FAR Fund joins the Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing, connecting with a group of national, regional and local foundations, and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social change.

2003 The FAR Fund helps launch a model program at PS 32 in Brooklyn for children with autism who are high functioning. The FAR Fund enables a parent input and support component to be included. The program is designed by NYU's Institute for Education and Social Policy in collaboration with the New York City Department of Education.

2003 The first FAR Fund Fellow, Michael Carley, launches the Global Regional Asperger's Syndrome Partnership, providing much needed support groups for people with high functioning autism.

2003 After a year of organizing parents, students and community members, Girls for Gender Equity successfully prevents the Department of Education from weakening Title IX of the Education Amendment, which states " No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal aid."

2003 Philomena Timmons of CWOP is named to the ACS advisory board. She is the first parent with a child in the system to serve on the board.

2004 The Child Welfare Fund and the FAR Fund convene a forum of advocates and consumers from child welfare and developmental disabilities fields to learn from and support each other.

2004 The FAR Fund and the Fund for Social Change create the Campaign for Real Lives, consisting of advocates, self-advocates, parents, providers and academics to make the reality of the developmental disabilities system catch up to its rhetoric.

2004 Gina Cheron , the second FAR Fund Fellow launches a legal unit within Dwa Fanm, providing legal services to Haitian domestic violence survivors and their families in Brooklyn.

2004 Sista II Sista, El Puente and other Brooklyn-based community organizations, in Bushwick successfully pressure their local police precinct to hire a female officer for their Domestic Violence Task Force.

2004 The Fund for Social Change, in collaboration with the Academy for Educational Development, the Community Resource Exchange, the Empire State Coalition of Youth, the Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health, the New York AIDS Coalition and the Partnership for After School Education convene a "future search" entitled "Creating an HIV-Free Future for NYC's Youth," bringing various stakeholders together to strategize on solutions.

2004 CWF awards first grant to New Yorkers for Children, the non-profit wing of ACS. The grant is used to hire child welfare parents and youth as advocates to increase access to services for families in 11 communities throughout the city.

2004 The Administration for Children's Services joins the The Partnership for Family Supports and Justice as a member of the donors' collaborative in Highbridge.

2004 Child Welfare Fund and David Tobis are honored by CWOP for their work on behalf of families with children in the child welfare system.

2004 Trude Lash, an eminent activist for the rights and well-being of children, dies. The Fund for Social Changes creates the Trude Lash Fellowship Program in collaboration with family, colleagues and friends of Trude Lash.

2005 At the Child Welfare Watch Forum on redesigning the foster care system, ACS Commissioner John Mattingly says, "The Child Welfare Watch reports, I think, are the most thoughtful, balanced and detailed analysis of a particular set of issues in child welfare, that I have ever seen anywhere."

2005 Developmental Disabilities Watch is founded by the FAR Fund and the Campaign for Real Lives, creating an independent journalistic voice to report on the system and drive changes in policy. The DD Watch is modeled on the Child Welfare Watch .

2005 The Fund for Social Change with the Independence Community Foundation, the Spin Gold Foundation, and the New York City Department of Education, creates a donors' collaborative both to identify the special education needs of preschool children and to provide services to meet those needs. The State Department of Education, the Administration for Children's Services, the Human Resources Administration and the New York City Mayor's Office soon join the collaborative.

2005 The New York City Department of Education agrees to replicate the PS 32 model program for high functioning children on the autistic spectrum.

2005 Diana Mc Court, the third FAR Fund Fellow launches One Person at a Time, to secure sustainable, self-directed housing for individuals with developmental disabilities, including those on the autistic spectrum..

2005 The FAR Fund provides its fourth Fellowship, to Lawrence James, who launches the Rallying, Educating and Building Effective Leadership (R.E.B.E.L.) program to teach people of color basic organizing, self-determination, and leadership skills.

2006 The Trude Lash Fellowship Program, administered by the Fund for Social Change, awards fellowships to Kallen Tsikasas and Regine Romain

2006 The FAR Fund provides its fifth Fellowship to Jonathan Cooper to create a program to reduce bullying of school children on the autistic spectrum.

2006 Nixmary Brown is killed by her step-father. The number of foster care placements increases by 53% from fewer than 4,800 in 2005 to more than 7,200 in 2006.

2006 Fostering Connection, an agency that provides psychotherapy to children in foster care “for as long as it takes” honors David Tobis as the first recipient of its Silver Nest Award.

2006 David Tobis addresses UNICEF’s senior policy staff at Maastricht University about strategies to create community services as an alternative to residential institutions for children.

2006 UNICEF invites David Tobis to Tajikistan to advise on ways to convert its pilot projects for child protection into a national program.

2007 Fifteen foundations and the Administration for Children’s Services are members of the Bridge Builders collaborative in Highbridge, the Bronx. The evaluation by Chapin Hall reports “…what we are hearing and seeing is a type of synergy, a breakthrough in thinking and action that has changed the way collaborative members work and the way that they think about their work.”

2007 The Administration for Children’s Services selects Bridge Builders to receive public funding as part of the Community Partnership Initiative.

2007 The FAR Fund selects the Fund for Social Change to administer the OMRDD/FAR Fund Collaborative to promote more individualized lives for people on the autistic spectrum. Ten agencies and the FAR Fund are part of the collaboration. The administration of the FAR Fund relocates.

2007 Bridge Builders expands the role of the Store Front with trained parents from the community and social work supervision. Over 1000 families are served in 2007.

2007 The Administration for Children’s Services convenes a forum for Lessons Learned from its three Community Partnership Initiatives. Bridge Builders is hailed as the “model to emulate.”