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Route Fifty: Why ‘mundane’ uses are most effective for AI
The unglamorous tools that give employees time back in their day may not generate headlines, but they help get government moving more efficiently.
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Social Finance Impact First Fund Q2 2026 Report
The Impact First Fund is built to deliver flexible, risk-tolerant capital to innovative business models advancing economic opportunity. It offers a simple, cost-effective way to invest in a professionally managed portfolio with a clear focus…
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Tracy Palandjian Named to the Forbes 50 Over 50 List
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How a Living Expense Loan Increases Access to Workforce Training and Improves Graduation Rates
In 2023, Per Scholas launched a partnership with Ascent and Social Finance to provide a zero-interest, no-fee loan of $3,000 to approved learners to cover living expenses while enrolled in their training program, which is…
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Social Finance Impact First Fund 2025 Annual Report
This report includes an overview of the Fund's impact objectives and strategy, profiles of our portfolio investments and their 2025 impact highlights, and an update on Social Finance's field-building activities.
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What Do We Do With What Clients Tell Us?
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How Early Childhood Systems Can Turn Data into Better Outcomes for Kids
Every year, governments invest billions of dollars in early childhood programs and collect enormous amounts of data about them. Yet too often, that data is used to satisfy reporting requirements rather than answering a more…
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Expanding Access to Tech Careers: Baseline and Early Implementation Findings from the Google Career Certificates Fund Evaluation
Managed by Social Finance and delivered through nonprofit training providers, the initiative provides learners with access to Google Career Certificates, which are designed to equip people with job-ready skills in high-paying fields like Cybersecurity, IT…
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Philanthropy Isn’t Broken—but How We Fund Might Be
A New Jersey foundation tried paying grantees for results instead of programs, unleashing both greater creativity and improved outcomes.