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Scripps National News: Training You Don’t Pay Back Until You Land a Job
Tracy Palandjian discusses Career Impact Bonds as an approach to financing job training that aligns business incentives and promotes economic mobility.
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American Rescue Plan: How Outcomes-Based Practices Can Maximize Community Impact
In advance of spending ARPA funds, governments have an opportunity to make a few simple funding and operational decisions to focus on outcomes now in order to lay a foundation for better results later.
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Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work Podcast: Trainers Make the Grade When Students Get Good Jobs
Co-founder and CEO Tracy Palandjian explains career impact bonds and social impact bonds.
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Social Finance in The New York Times: Job Training That’s Free Until You’re Hired Is a Blueprint for Biden
This feature in the New York Times covers Social Finance’s Career Impact Bond with American Diesel Training Centers. The article highlights two program graduates, Bill and Jordan, who completed the program, found jobs, and are…
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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.
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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.