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Harnessing Data for Insights and Outcomes
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…
Insights
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TEDx Chicago: An Uncommon Bond for the Common Good
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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Supporting the Holistic Person: Mental Health and Pay for Success
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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New Collaborations to Break the Cycle of Incarceration
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…
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SIPPRA Convening Looks to Future of Pay for Success
Last Thursday evening, government leaders, service providers and impact investors gathered in one of the largest meeting rooms in the Capitol to celebrate the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA), the historic federal…
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An Uncommon Public-Private Partnership: Improving Economic Outcomes for Refugees and Immigrants in Massachusetts
Navjeet Bal traveled to Dallas, Texas to speak about the Massachusetts Pathways to Economic Advancement Pay for Success Project at the “Investing in What Matters” conference, hosted by the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) and the…
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Incorporating Payment Incentives for Early Childhood Outcomes in Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Contracts in Connecticut
Social Finance partnered with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) to pilot home-visiting initiative designed to improve early childhood mental health outcomes and respond to adverse childhood experiences.
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Using Pay for Success to Improve Outcomes for The Persistently Homeless in Sacramento
This report analyzes a key segment of the homeless population in Sacramento‒those who are high utilizers of the County and City’s services‒and assesses the value of scaling up support services for that population.
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Practice to Policy: Freeing Government Data for Social Impact in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Pathways to Economic Advancement is a pioneering example of how multi-year administrative data access can empower providers to customize service delivery to client needs and infuse an outcomes focus into our workforce systems.