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This chapter of Investing in America's Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers was written by Social Finance's Nirav Shah. The book identifies specific workforce development programs and policies that provide positive returns to society, to…
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Social Finance recently launched the Veterans Coordinated Approach to Recovery and Employment (Veterans CARE) Pay for Success project in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, local governments, and impact investors.
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With the recent movement around outcomes, nonprofits are being asked to use data—and where possible, evidence on the impact of their programming—to create a new kind of narrative around their organizations’ results.
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This guest blog on SOCAP’s website illuminates the discussion around social impact bonds and impact measurement during the SOCAP18 conference.
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Tracy Palandjian, CEO of Social Finance, gave a welcome speech at The Global Steering Group for Impact Investing Summit in 2018. In her speech, she discusses impact investing in various country contexts and how the…
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Marion County wants to serve the at-risk youth in their community and set them on the path to a better life. And it wants to do more than expand services — it wants to know…
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An accidental entrepreneur, Tracy Palandijan left the private sector to co-found Social Finance. The nonprofit is building a new model to finance social change, enlisting private capital and rallying uncommon partners around a common cause:…
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Many of our projects at Social Finance address mental health challenges, either directly or indirectly. These projects span workforce development, criminal justice, family stability and healthcare.
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In determining whether our correctional systems are succeeding, we focus on metrics like recidivism — the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend. What these metrics fail to explain are the contributing factors that so…
