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Macquarie Podcast: Spotlight on Social Finance
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Macquarie Podcast: Spotlight on Social Finance

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…

JVS and Social Finance Reflect on Significant Gains for Immigrant Learners in Massachusetts Pay for Success Project
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JVS and Social Finance Reflect on Significant Gains for Immigrant Learners in Massachusetts Pay for Success Project

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…

Stepping Up: Interim Findings on JVS Boston’s English for Advancement Show Large Earnings Gains
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Stepping Up: Interim Findings on JVS Boston’s English for Advancement Show Large Earnings Gains

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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Talent Finance: A New Consensus and Return-to-Investment
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Talent Finance: A New Consensus and Return-to-Investment

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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