Challenging the Status Quo: Philadelphia’s Exploration of Pay for Success
This report details Social Finance’s strategy in assessing the feasibility of the implementation of PFS in Philadelphia.
This report details Social Finance’s strategy in assessing the feasibility of the implementation of PFS in Philadelphia.
A relatively small upfront investment to scale an internship program can generate significant returns, impacting economic opportunities and outcomes for young people.
This blog on America Forward’s website explores how nonprofit organizations, funders, and governments can work together to use data sharing to amplify impact.
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.
This report explores how four nonprofits, all funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, approach the shift to outcomes-oriented government funding streams.
Read CEO Tracy Palandjian's op-ed with David Gergen about Pay for Success projects in South Carolina and Connecticut.
This Washington Post article describes PFS and how the model is being used in Connecticut, South Carolina, and Colorado to improve social outcomes.
This Stanford Social Innovation Review article discusses how the federal government, state governments, the philanthropic sector, and evaluators should combine their efforts to aid in the transition from PFS to performance-based contracts.
Jeff Edmondson of StriveTogether and Social Finance's Jeff Shumway collaborated to write this short piece on the potential of combining Collective Impact and Pay for Success.