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Improving Outcomes for Children and Families through Pay for Success
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Improving Outcomes for Children and Families through Pay for Success

The passage of the Results Act marks a starting point—the source of new opportunities for state and local governments to direct funding toward effective interventions and leverage federal funding to pay for positive outcomes.

Theresa Doherty

Focusing on Results: How Nonprofits are Using Data to Improve Their Communities
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Focusing on Results: How Nonprofits are Using Data to Improve Their Communities

With the recent movement around outcomes, nonprofits are being asked to use data—and where possible, evidence on the impact of their programming—to create a new kind of narrative around their organizations’ results.

Social Finance

Incorporating Payment Incentives for Early Childhood Outcomes in Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Contracts in Connecticut
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Incorporating Payment Incentives for Early Childhood Outcomes in Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Contracts in Connecticut

Social Finance partnered with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) to pilot home-visiting initiative designed to improve early childhood mental health outcomes and respond to adverse childhood experiences.

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Issuing Bonds to Invest in People
ISSUING BONDS TO INVEST IN PEOPLE

Issuing Bonds to Invest in People

The New York Times Fixes section highlights the Family Stability Pay for Success project in Connecticut aimed at reducing parental substance use for DCF-involved families.

Tina Rosenberg