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3 Key Lessons for Practitioners Using Data to Improve Social Outcomes
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3 Key Lessons for Practitioners Using Data to Improve Social Outcomes

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.

JVS and Social Finance Reflect on Significant Gains for Immigrant Learners in Massachusetts Pay for Success Project
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JVS and Social Finance Reflect on Significant Gains for Immigrant Learners in Massachusetts Pay for Success Project

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…

Stepping Up: Interim Findings on JVS Boston’s English for Advancement Show Large Earnings Gains
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Stepping Up: Interim Findings on JVS Boston’s English for Advancement Show Large Earnings Gains

This study from Economic Mobility Corporation documents significant wage gains and job retention from Massachusetts Pathways’ English for Advancement program, which engaged more than 1,000 residents in Boston, Lynn, Lowell, and Lawrence. The evaluation, which…

Economic Mobility Corporation

Next-Generation Outcomes Funding
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Next-Generation Outcomes Funding

This brief outlines how the federal government could build on the best ideas developed under the bipartisan Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA) by applying a more flexible and adaptive approach to…

How Pay for Success Can Help Reduce Covid-19 Transmission in Prisons
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How Pay for Success Can Help Reduce Covid-19 Transmission in Prisons

The top 15 hotspots for COVID-19 transmission in America are in correctional facilities, with more than 186,000 cases and 1,120 deaths linked to prisons and jails, according to data from The New York Times.

Ryan Gillette