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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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....