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2022 in Review
For our team at Social Finance, 2022 has been a year of focus and execution. From California to Alaska to Florida, we expanded our portfolio of impact investments and advisory work.
Insights
![Affectionate Little Daughter Tenderly Touching Belly Of Her Pregnant Mom While Sitting On Sofa Together, Empty Space](https://socialfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AdobeStock_330498527-1000x688.jpeg")
Supporting Connecticut to Launch a Postpartum Public Health Program
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…
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Improving Federal Policy for America’s Children
As SIPPRA advances effective programs, it could inform a broader approach to public budgeting that drives limited public resources to highly effective interventions and approaches. Federal programs could then invest in a more coordinated fashion…
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Exploring Pay For Success in K-12 Career and Technical Education: Observations From Six Sites Across the Nation
OCTAE awarded a $2 million grant to Social Finance and Jobs for the Future (JFF) to expand high-quality CTE opportunities for youth through Pay for Success (PFS) financing.
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Designing an Outcomes Rate Card Approach in Connecticut to Better Serve Families
Social Finance and OEC conducted an extensive review of their rate card implementation and determined that the model would be more impactful and easier to implement if it were more clearly aligned with OEC’s goals…
![A female healthcare worker listening to the heart of an infant son with his young mother at home.](https://socialfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AdobeStock_243538266-scaled-1-1000x667.jpeg")
Creating System-Level Accountability through Outcomes Rate Cards in Connecticut
Social Finance is dedicated to continuously improving the structure of outcomes rate cards to maximize family-level impact, as seen in this four-year partnership with OEC. The outcomes rate card enables governments to pay providers varied…
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South Carolina Nurse-Family Partnership Social Impact Bond: Interim Project Assessment
The South Carolina Nurse-Family Partnership Social Impact Bond mobilized $29 million to expand NFP services to more than 3,000 first-time mothers with low incomes statewide.
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3 Lessons to Effectively Leverage Outcomes-Based Funding to Improve Home Visiting Services in Missouri
CTF worked with Social Finance to design an outcomes rate card (ORC), an OBF structure that includes a menu of high-priority outcome metrics CTF hopes to achieve and an associated payment, or “price,” for each…
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A Story of Impact: Nurse-Family Partnership Supports Mom Terri and Daughter Aubrielle
Terri met Karen when she enrolled in the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) at McLeod Health in Florence, South Carolina. NFP, the state of South Carolina, and Social Finance launched the Pay for Success program in February…