What policies can help prevent evictions in the wake of COVID-19?
This blog is part of a series to share research and analysis prepared for the Rapid Response Network (RRN). The RRN is an initiative of the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) and Social Finance, providing actionable research to agencies responding to the COVID-19 crisis....
Read MoreHow can school-based clinicians deliver high-quality services in a telemental health environment?
This blog is part of a series to share research and analysis prepared for the Rapid Response Network (RRN). The RRN is an initiative of the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) and Social Finance, providing actionable research to agencies responding to the COVID-19 crisis....
Read MoreSocial Finance publishes COVID-19 response resources
Social Finance is working with governments, impact investors, and philanthropists to support those providing direct COVID-19 relief, designing projects to enable an equitable recovery, and building systems for long-term resilience....
Read MoreThe Needle and the dangers of early Pay for Success project evaluation
Following the primaries? Maybe you’ve come across The Needle, the odometer-like data visualization The New York Times uses to display live election results. This seemingly simple graphic does a big job, analyzing initial returns and other sources to produce easy-to-consume forecasts. It also encapsulates The Times’ ambitious goal of providing real-time election predictions to information-hungry voters....
Read MoreUnlocking the potential of performance management with Goodwill Nurse-Family Partnership
The state of Indiana maintains the seventh highest infant mortality rate and eleventh highest child death rate in the nation. Between 2012 and 2017, there were more than 215,000 births in Indiana by women enrolled in Medicaid — approximately 42% of all births. And around a third of these births — about 77,000 — were to first-time mothers....
Read MoreWhat drives client success in Pay For Success projects?
This summer saw the first graduates of the Ventura County Project to Support Reentry, a partnership between Interface Children & Family Services, Ventura County, and Social Finance that aims to reduce recidivism, improve public safety, and promote family stability for vulnerable adults on formal probation living in the county. The graduation ceremony was a powerful testament to community-wide support for the initiative, with friends, family and supporters like case managers, probation officers, and Ventura County officials all in attendance....
Read MoreWhy don’t we fund more prevention?
In 1733, Benjamin Franklin traveled from his home in Philadelphia back to his birthplace in Boston. Franklin was 27 years old. It was almost two decades before he attached a key to a kite, and more than three before he became America’s first postmaster general. Even in these early days, Franklin had an eye for innovation and that is what he encountered in Boston: The Boston Fire Society, one of the first colonial mutual aid organizations, which was set up to prevent the small house fires that typically led to destructive urban blazes....
Read MoreHow can we encourage greater investment in prevention?
In a previous piece, “Why don’t we fund more prevention?,” we unpacked some of the biggest barriers to investing in prevention — including uncertainty, accountability, urgency, and the wrong pockets problem....
Read MoreA $10M (AUD) award and why we are using it to address economic mobility
We’re humbled to announce that Social Finance is one of five winners of the Macquarie Group 50th Anniversary Award. The prize comes with A$10 million in funding, which we will use to jump-start a new generation of Pay for Success (PFS) projects and cultivate an evergreen investment fund to accelerate program design and execution. Below, we share more about what this funding means for us, our partners, and the people we serve....
Read MoreThree Key Lessons about Pay for Success in Career and Tech Ed
Social Finance and JFF (formerly Jobs for the Future) have launched the second round of a national competition to explore how Pay for Success can help expand evidence-based career and technical education programs in K-12 education. For more information on how to apply, please visit our website....
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