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Helping Prepare Young People for the Future of Work
A relatively small upfront investment to scale an internship program can generate significant returns, impacting economic opportunities and outcomes for young people.
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New Tools to Amplify Impact: Growing What Works
This blog on America Forward’s website explores how nonprofit organizations, funders, and governments can work together to use data sharing to amplify impact.
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Charting the Course: Reflections on the South Carolina Nurse-Family Partnership Pay for Success Pilot
This brief provides background on the purpose of including a pilot for this project, the “lessons learned” from the pilot, and why incorporating a pilot can improve the launch and operations of complex Pay for…
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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.
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New Tools to Amplify Impact: A Pay for Success Guide to Building Nonprofit Capacity
This report explores how four nonprofits, all funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, approach the shift to outcomes-oriented government funding streams.
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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.
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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.
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‘Government Only Pays for the Positive Outcomes.’ A Strikingly New Approach to Social Problems
This Washington Post article describes PFS and how the model is being used in Connecticut, South Carolina, and Colorado to improve social outcomes.
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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.