Social Finance helps public, philanthropic, private, and mission-driven partners get better outcomes for the people and communities they serve.Our work focuses on accountability and feedback: tying dollars to results, and scaling solutions that work.
Overview
With each engagement, our team brings a deep understanding of social challenges and a focus on analytical rigor. We bring experience in program management, investing, finance, law, policy, and impact evaluation.
Our offerings span designing new programs, building data systems that guide decisions, advising on impact-first investing, and evaluating the impact of investments and programs.
Impact investing involves risk, including possible loss of capital.
Offerings
Program Design and Delivery
We partner with governments and philanthropy to build and deliver more effective and adaptive systems in health, human services, and workforce. We help agencies and funders design programs, align stakeholders, and manage for impact.
We help build public sector capacity using an outcomes philosophy. This work includes defining success metrics upfront, measuring progress, and tying funding to performance.
We empower government agencies to test, refine, and scale AI solutions tailored to workforce development and economic mobility. Through pilots and hands-on support, agencies can try AI tools and build their capacity.
We work with public sector leaders to unlock the impact of data systems through deep analysis, clear visualization, and rapid feedback. By making information more accessible and integrated, we help organizations make better decisions.
We advise individuals, families, foundations, and DAFs on how to incorporate impact-first investments into their philanthropic activities. By shifting a portion of their philanthropic portfolio to impact-first investments, investors can see their dollars create more impact over time.
We advise institutions on better impact measurement and management (IMM) practices for their impact-first investment portfolios. Our team has unique expertise as impact investors, measurement and evaluation experts, and data analytics professionals.
We help companies identify their talent needs and develop approaches to address them. We help employers map out options for closing skills gaps, from training partnerships to new financing models.
Outcomes-based contracting brings nonprofit, philanthropy and government together to allocate public funds to achieve long-term results. Thanks to Social Finance, we are using this model to help first-time mothers and children and build a healthier community.
Matt Meyer, County Executive, New Castle County, Delaware
No compensation was provided in exchange for testimonial.
Our thanks to the Social Finance Team and the consultants with whom they partnered for their mindful approach, thoughtful analysis, and actionable synthesis of the learnings to inform our work and the work of others.
Kimberlee Cornett, Senior Director of Impact Investments and Dr. Christine Fu, Senior Program Officer, Research-Learning-Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
No compensation was provided in exchange for testimonial.
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