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Why Don’t We Fund More Prevention?
What will it take to generate sustainable investments in strategies that promote health and well-being and end violence?
Insights
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How Can We Encourage Greater Investment in Prevention?
Public and private health leaders’ embrace of value-based payment is slowly transforming which health services are delivered and when. States and counties are experimenting with outcomes-based contracting, focusing on everything from healthy birth outcomes to…
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DCF, Discover, and Longwood Pilot Social Impact Investing with Blood Bank
With Social Finance as the project advisor, the state of Delaware was able to successfully launch a Pay for Success (PFS) initiative.
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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.
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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.
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Supporting the Holistic Person: Mental Health and Pay for Success
Many of our projects at Social Finance address mental health challenges, either directly or indirectly. These projects span workforce development, criminal justice, family stability and healthcare.
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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.
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Charting the Course: Reflections on the South Carolina Nurse-Family Partnership Pay for Success Pilot
This brief provides background on the purpose of including a pilot for this project, the “lessons learned” from the pilot, and why incorporating a pilot can improve the launch and operations of complex Pay for…
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Using Pay for Success to Extend Diabetes Prevention
Type II diabetes prevention is drastically underfunded in the U.S. This brief investigates how Pay for Success (PFS) strategies can be used as a prevention tool to extend diabetes prevention.