This podcast episode features a conversation between Macquarie Group’s Shawn Lytle and Social Finance’s Tracy Palandjian. The conversation focuses on Social Finance’s work on innovative financing models such as the Social Impact Bond and the Career Impact Bond.
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If you rewind the clock, impact investing was born out of this recognition that we have massive social challenges and that philanthropy and the government alone aren’t sufficient to solve these big challenges. We’re aiming to disrupt this worldview organized around the premise that for-profit investments should only generate financial returns and that social challenges should only be addressed by philanthropy and government.
Blue Meridian Partners, General Assembly, and Social Finance hosted a webinar on the Career Impact Bond, an impact-first, student-friendly financing tool that helps people who are underemployed or unemployed access career training and get good…
For Low-Income Workers, A Chance to Learn New Skills Without Paying a Dime Upfront
The Boston Globe describes how low-income workers are using the Career Impact Bond to gain access to career training and learn in-demand skills without paying any upfront costs.
TEDx Chicago: An Uncommon Bond for the Common Good
An accidental entrepreneur, Tracy Palandijan left the private sector to co-found Social Finance. The nonprofit is building a new model to finance social change, enlisting private capital and rallying uncommon partners around a common cause:…
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