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Increasing Your Impact by Blurring the Lines between Investing and Philanthropy
Social Finance Board Member Laura Lauder and her husband, Gary, reflect on their innovative approach to integrating impact across a portfolio.
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A Culture of Learning Helps Make Social Finance an Exceptional Place to Work
Denver Frederick speaks with Social Finance team members Bob Liu, Meg Touvelle, John Pion, Tiana Menon, Ayush Mansingh, and Rachel Levy about what it's like to work at Social Finance.
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Exploring Pay For Success in K-12 Career and Technical Education: Observations From Six Sites Across the Nation
OCTAE awarded a $2 million grant to Social Finance and Jobs for the Future (JFF) to expand high-quality CTE opportunities for youth through Pay for Success (PFS) financing.
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Google Career Certificates Fund Launch Event
Google hosted a virtual conversation with Sundar Pichai, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Tracy Palandjian, Gerald Chertavian, and Rebecca Taber Staehelin to announce the launch of Google's $100 million Career Certificates Fund.
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Social Finance in The New York Times: Google Creates $100 Million Fund for Skills Training Program
Social Finance is managing the $100 million Google Career Certificates Fund, a Google-backed initiative targeting how to find, train, and create paths to good jobs in the modern economy for the nearly two-thirds of American…
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Veterans CARE Project Summary
Following sustained, strong veteran employment outcomes throughout this period, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts funded a 15-month extension of Veterans CARE beginning in October 2021 and continuing through at least December 2022.
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Meet Social Finance’s New Vice President, Government Relations, Sandra Salstrom
Sandra Salstrom joined Social Finance in October 2021 to lead government engagement efforts. We spoke with Sandra about her new role and the importance of building connections with government partners.
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Investing in Skill Building: The Career Impact Bond
An FJC donor is putting philanthropic dollars to work by investing in economic mobility for low-income workers. The initiative is called the UP Fund, a $50 million pool of catalytic capital raised by Social Finance.
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Using Promising Models to Fulfill Occupational Licensure Requirements
The Career Impact Bond (CIB) is a student-friendly model for upskilling and training programs, supported by Social Finance's $50 million UP Fund. Students in a CIB enroll in training programs with no upfront costs, only paying…