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Our journey started a decade ago with a borrowed office and a bold mission: to build new tools at the intersection of finance and policy to deliver meaningful change and measurable outcomes for our communities.

A new generation of cross-sectoral partnerships are emerging to ensure better outcomes for U.S. workers. At our national launch event of Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility—a new book from Social Finance and the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Philadelphia—leaders in government, philanthropy, and the corporate sector explored the emergence of these unique partnerships, drawing on examples from the recently released book and beyond.

Social Finance’s Career Impact Bond with American Diesel Training Centers (ADTC) will train over 550 Americans who qualify as unemployed or underemployed from 2020-2022 in diesel technician training.

Today, MacKenzie Scott shared “Seeding by Ceding,” a Medium blog post outlining gifts totaling $2.7 billion to 286 high-impact organizations, including Social Finance....

As part of our 10-year anniversary, Social Finance US is proud to highlight our Global Network, which consists of sister organizations in the U.K., the Netherlands, Israel, and India.

As we begin to recover from one of our nation’s greatest crises, it’s time to rethink the way we finance worker upskilling to meet the future of work. For all of the confident predictions we see about the future of work, the humbling reality is that there’s real uncertainty. America faced declining economic mobility and a growing skills mismatch before the pandemic; as the economy transforms, that uncertainty grows. With it comes financial risk: We—students, employers, public workforce developers, our collective society—don’t always know which investments will pay off....

The impact investing nonprofit is helping to finance diesel technician training amidst shortage ...

By Steve Lohr...

This article originally appeared on Inside Philanthropy....

In California, about 50% of individuals released from custody are convicted of a subsequent crime within three years of release—a statistic that has remained stubbornly high since the early 2000s. Organizations like Interface Children & Family Services (Interface), often in partnership with local government agencies like the Ventura County Probation Agency (VCPA), are working to reduce recidivism by providing individualized services to formerly incarcerated individuals, promoting family stability, and improving public safety.