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As the Biden-Harris administration seeks to leverage limited resources to achieve profound social change, Social Finance proposes outcomes-based funding (OBF) as a powerful tool.
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On Nov. 18, 2020, JVS hosted an economic forum “Pay for Success: Working Toward Economic Advancement” to celebrate results from the Massachusetts Pathways to Economic Advancement Project, a workforce development partnership launched in 2017 with…
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This essay by Tracy Palandjian discusses a new approach to financing postsecondary education and training isn’t working: the Career Impact Bond.
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On Nov. 18, 2020, JVS is hosting an economic forum, “Pay for Success: Working Toward Economic Advancement,” to celebrate and assess preliminary results from a workforce collaboration with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Social Finance.
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This study from Economic Mobility Corporation documents significant wage gains and job retention from Massachusetts Pathways’ English for Advancement program, which engaged more than 1,000 residents in Boston, Lynn, Lowell, and Lawrence. The evaluation, which…
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Social Finance conducted 50 interviews with rural education and workforce experts across the nation to gather insights and stories to help community colleges build successful workforce partnerships.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation published a white paper on talent finance, the development and use of public and private partnerships to align investments in talent development.
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High-quality career and technical education (CTE) can help boost in-demand employment opportunities for young people. However, education providers face unprecedented budget pressures as a result of the pandemic. Against this backdrop, we spoke with CTE…
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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…
