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As school counselors in a California county transitioned to telehealth services during Covid-19, they noticed that engagement with clients had decreased, resulting in shorter sessions. Counselors requested help from county leadership who reached out to…
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Social Finance administered a survey that aimed to assess the potential for outcomes-based funding (OBF) to help align funding priorities towards the social determinants of health.
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The Indiana State Department of Health awarded $6.5 million to Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana in 2018 to expand Nurse-Family Partnership in 19 Indiana counties. This allows Goodwill Nurse-Family Partnership to serve 11 of…
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What will it take to generate sustainable investments in strategies that promote health and well-being and end violence?
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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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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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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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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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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.
