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An Introduction to Pay For Success
Pay for Success is a set of innovative outcomes-based financing and funding tools that directly and measurably improve lives by driving resources toward results. Watch this video overview.
Insights
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Macquarie Podcast: Spotlight on Social Finance
This podcast episode features a conversation between Macquarie Group’s Shawn Lytle and Social Finance’s Tracy Palandjian. The conversation focuses on Social Finance’s work on innovative financing models such as the Social Impact Bond and the…
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To Support an Equitable Recovery, Donor-Advised Funds Should Look Beyond Grantmaking
Forthcoming research from Social Finance, conducted with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, presents the largest-known nationwide survey of DAF donors on impact investing to date.
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3 Key Lessons for Practitioners Using Data to Improve Social Outcomes
Social Finance partnered with Interface and Ventura County to establish Ventura County Project to Support Reentry, a pay for success program that has already enrolled over 340 individuals into reentry services at Interface.
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Celebrating a Decade of Impact
Reflecting on a decade of work in the impact investing movement. Social Finance has built new tools at the intersection of finance and policy to deliver meaningful change and measurable outcomes for our communities.
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Video: A Decade of Impact: Celebrating Our 10-Year Anniversary
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Announcing winners of the Catalyzing Career & Technical Education Competition
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Anchorage Takes a Community Approach—with Pay for Success—to Address Homelessness
The Municipality of Anchorage committed up to $4.5 million in outcome payments that will get recycled back into the project contingent on how many residents receive and maintain stable housing.
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