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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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.
