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The Needle and the Dangers of Early Pay for Success Project Evaluation
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The Needle and the Dangers of Early Pay for Success Project Evaluation

PFS project stakeholders crave to measure their impact as quickly as possible. The temptation to peek under the hood mid-project can be overwhelming. However, looking at the preliminary evaluation results of an intervention and using…

Ryan Gilette

Online Training Opportunity: Outcomes-Based Funding
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Online Training Opportunity: Outcomes-Based Funding

Social Finance is hosting a series of training sessions on outcomes-based funding. These offerings, collectively called The Social Finance Leadership Development Academy: The Theory, Practice, and Future of Outcomes-Based Financing, are designed for public-sector leaders…

What Drives Client Success in Pay for Success Projects?
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What Drives Client Success in Pay for Success Projects?

The Ventura County Project to Support Reentry is among the first wave of Pay for Success projects to reach key service delivery and enrollment milestones.

Sam Kruse and Dr. Courtney Stallings

How Can We Encourage Greater Investment in Prevention?
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How Can We Encourage Greater Investment in Prevention?

Public and private health leaders’ embrace of value-based payment is slowly transforming which health services are delivered and when. States and counties are experimenting with outcomes-based contracting, focusing on everything from healthy birth outcomes to…

Jake Segal

Expanding Access to Justice with Social Impact Financing
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Expanding Access to Justice with Social Impact Financing

Civil legal aid is a crucial resource for millions of low-income Americans, providing legal assistance on life-essential issues. However, the need for legal aid greatly exceeds available resources.

Navjeet Bal, Anna Fogel, Storey Dyer Kloman, Shivan Sarin

Improving Outcomes for Children and Families through Pay for Success
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Improving Outcomes for Children and Families through Pay for Success

The passage of the Results Act marks a starting point—the source of new opportunities for state and local governments to direct funding toward effective interventions and leverage federal funding to pay for positive outcomes.

Theresa Doherty