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Using Pay for Success to Extend Diabetes Prevention
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Using Pay for Success to Extend Diabetes Prevention

Type II diabetes prevention is drastically underfunded in the U.S. This brief investigates how Pay for Success (PFS) strategies can be used as a prevention tool to extend diabetes prevention.

Jake Segal

Social Impact Bonds: The Early Years
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Social Impact Bonds: The Early Years

This paper outlines the history of SIBs, highlights how they have developed so far, and speculates what the future holds.

Rashmi Khare, Annie Dear, Alexandra Zaroulis, Gretchen Crosby Sims, Jane Newman, Ruth Lotan, and Alisa Helbitz

A New Public Finance Tool to Help the Most Vulnerable
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A New Public Finance Tool to Help the Most Vulnerable

Read CEO Tracy Palandjian's op-ed with David Gergen about Pay for Success projects in South Carolina and Connecticut.

Tracy Palandjian, David Green

After Pay for Success: Doubling Down on What Works
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After Pay for Success: Doubling Down on What Works

This Stanford Social Innovation Review article discusses how the federal government, state governments, the philanthropic sector, and evaluators should combine their efforts to aid in the transition from PFS to performance-based contracts.

Sam Schaeffer, Jeff Shumway, and Caitlin Reimers Brumme

Roadmap for Pay for Success in Philadelphia
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Roadmap for Pay for Success in Philadelphia

Working with the office of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Social Finance explored the feasibility of improving recidivism and child welfare outcomes through a Pay for Success transaction.

Anna Fogel, Jeff Shumway, Anant Udpa

Collective Impact + Pay for Success
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Collective Impact + Pay for Success

Jeff Edmondson of StriveTogether and Social Finance's Jeff Shumway collaborated to write this short piece on the potential of combining Collective Impact and Pay for Success.

Jeff Edmondson and Jeff Shumway