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The South Carolina Nurse-Family Partnership Social Impact Bond mobilized $29 million to expand NFP services to more than 3,000 first-time mothers with low incomes statewide.
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CTF worked with Social Finance to design an outcomes rate card (ORC), an OBF structure that includes a menu of high-priority outcome metrics CTF hopes to achieve and an associated payment, or “price,” for each…
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In advance of spending ARPA funds, governments have an opportunity to make a few simple funding and operational decisions to focus on outcomes now in order to lay a foundation for better results later.
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Pay for Success is a set of innovative outcomes-based financing and funding tools that directly and measurably improve lives by driving resources toward results. Watch this video overview.
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Social Finance partnered with Interface and Ventura County to establish Ventura County Project to Support Reentry, a pay for success program that has already enrolled over 340 individuals into reentry services at Interface.
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The Municipality of Anchorage committed up to $4.5 million in outcome payments that will get recycled back into the project contingent on how many residents receive and maintain stable housing.
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The Boston Globe describes how low-income workers are using the Career Impact Bond to gain access to career training and learn in-demand skills without paying any upfront costs.
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As the Biden-Harris administration seeks to leverage limited resources to achieve profound social change, Social Finance proposes outcomes-based funding (OBF) as a powerful tool.
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On Nov. 18, 2020, JVS hosted an economic forum “Pay for Success: Working Toward Economic Advancement” to celebrate results from the Massachusetts Pathways to Economic Advancement Project, a workforce development partnership launched in 2017 with…
