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Director, Impact Advisory
2024
Children & Families, Homelessness & Housing, Health
Annie Dear is a Director at Social Finance, where she works with public sector and nonprofit clients on quality improvement and outcomes funding initiatives that implement data-driven and community-informed practices to deliver better results. Her work has focused on early childhood, with an emphasis on home visiting, and homelessness, including Home for Good Anchorage, a $12.75 million project to expand supportive housing in Anchorage, AK. She also has helped build Social Finance’s portfolio of outcomes rate cards, a contracting approach that links provider incentive payments to metrics that align with operational, policy, and outcome priorities. Her portfolio has also included education, health, public safety and reentry, and workforce development.
Before joining Social Finance, she worked as a policy researcher for a state senator in Southern California. She also completed the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs in Los Angeles, an experiential program that promotes effective and ethical leadership in civic affairs. Annie graduated from Williams College with a BA with honors in Political Science.
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For over a decade, Social Finance has worked with government and nonprofit partners to design and implement data-driven programs that support families in the transition to parenthood. Congress’ recent reauthorization of the Maternal, Infant, and…
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The first year of the latest outcomes rate card offers learnings not just for the State of Connecticut and its home visiting providers but also for other jurisdictions looking to start similar outcomes-based initiatives.
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The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood is launching a two-year universal home visiting and community health worker pilot. Social Finance collaborated with CT OEC and partnering agencies to design the pilot, secure funding, and plan…
