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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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Expanding Access to Justice with Social Impact Financing
Civil legal aid is a crucial resource for millions of low-income Americans, providing legal assistance on life-essential issues. However, the need for legal aid greatly exceeds available resources.
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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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Pay for Success: An Innovative Approach to Address Chronic Social Issues
Find out how DCF used Pay for Success to improve outcomes for Connecticut families and how you can tap into a new federal program that provides $100 million to support new state and local Pay…
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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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Harnessing Data for Insights and Outcomes
Marion County wants to serve the at-risk youth in their community and set them on the path to a better life. And it wants to do more than expand services — it wants to know…
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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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New Collaborations to Break the Cycle of Incarceration
In determining whether our correctional systems are succeeding, we focus on metrics like recidivism — the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend. What these metrics fail to explain are the contributing factors that so…