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Online Training Opportunity: Outcomes-Based Funding
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Online Training Opportunity: Outcomes-Based Funding

Social Finance is hosting a series of training sessions on outcomes-based funding. These offerings, collectively called The Social Finance Leadership Development Academy: The Theory, Practice, and Future of Outcomes-Based Financing, are designed for public-sector leaders…

What Drives Client Success in Pay for Success Projects?
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What Drives Client Success in Pay for Success Projects?

The Ventura County Project to Support Reentry is among the first wave of Pay for Success projects to reach key service delivery and enrollment milestones.

Sam Kruse and Dr. Courtney Stallings

How Can We Encourage Greater Investment in Prevention?
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How Can We Encourage Greater Investment in Prevention?

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…

Jake Segal

A $10 Million (AUD) Award and Why We Are Using it to Address Economic Mobility
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A $10 Million (AUD) Award and Why We Are Using it to Address Economic Mobility

Employers across the country are working to fill more than 7 million vacant positions yet 40% can’t find workers who have the requisite skills, even for entry-level roles. While there are some great career training programs…

Social Finance

Three Key Lessons about Pay for Success in Career and Tech Ed
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Three Key Lessons about Pay for Success in Career and Tech Ed

During the first round of the Catalyzing Career and Technical Education competition in 2017, Social Finance and JFF selected four sites based on the strength of their program offerings, partnerships, and capacity to scale. We…

Sarah Pajouh

Aggregating Capital to Accelerate Impact
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Aggregating Capital to Accelerate Impact

This white paper was produced in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The result of a collaborative effort between Social Finance, members of the Gates Postsecondary Team, and others at the foundation, "Aggregating…

Jake Segal, Sharvani Srivastava, and Andrew Babbitt