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How Fares the Frontline? A Look at the Nursing Workforce in 2024
The nursing workforce made headlines during the Covid-19 pandemic, as nurses faced increasingly challenging work conditions and began leaving the profession en masse. A steep decline in available nurses pushed our healthcare system to the…
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Evaluating Preschool Development Grant Performance in Connecticut
Social Finance partnered with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) at the beginning of 2022 to design a measurement and evaluation strategy to meet the quarterly and annual reporting requirements of the state's Preschool…
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How Can We Make the Most of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund?
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Can Occupational Training Programs Help Workers Without Degrees Catch Up? Analyzing Wage Gains of Job Training Participants in Travis County, TX
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Few Foundations Use Their Endowments for Impact Investing. How Can We Tip the Scales?
We partnered with Builders Initiative to better understand why more philanthropic capital holders do not mobilize more endowment dollars for impact investments. Our report, “Breaking Barriers: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Foundation Endowments for Mission…
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Meet Jess Brooks, Vice President of Investor Relations at Social Finance
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Meet Pamela Dippel Choney, Chair of the Board at Social Finance
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