“The link between pay for success and building the evidence base for social programs is not always intuitive, but it’s a critical relationship.” In this video, Urban Institute’s Pay for Success Initiative’s “Justin Milner explains how pay for success elevates evidence to innovate the way governments do business.”
“In February 2016, the city of Denver and eight private investors closed on the city’s first social impact bond (SIB), an $8.6 million investment to fund a supportive housing program for 250 of the city’s most frequent users of the criminal justice system (box 1)….
“Communities across the country face many challenges in addressing opioid abuse. Opioid-related deaths and related health and social problems are rising at an alarming rate. In response, Insightformation has built a strategic template for community response to the opioid crisis. This template builds on the…
“Pay for success (PFS) has merits that make it appealing to many stakeholders: it can save governments money, shift the risk of ineffective programs to third-party funders, provide multiyear funding for service providers, and generate a modest return for investors. But these benefits are paired…
“In 2014, The James Irvine Foundation and Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) launched the California Pay for Success Initiative, a $5.6-million effort to support the exploration of new approaches to funding social services. Pay for Success (PFS) ties payment for service delivery to the achievement of…
“This is the first module of the ESCAP E-learning Series on Public-Private Parternships (PPPs). The module outlines the main features of PPPs and highlights the differences between PPP and traditional procurement of public infrastructure. The main benefits and limitations of the PPP procurement mechanism are…
“For decades, individuals and organizations have been trying to solve our greatest challenges through siloed solutions. More recently, we have seen significant growth in the use and diversity of models of cross sector collaboration. … Some of these efforts are able to create meaningful collaborations…
“Increasingly people in non-profits, business, government, and community groups realize that they must collaborate if they are to find lasting remedies to complex shared problems such as homelessness, regional development, and unemployment. This video brief highlights the benefits of cross-sector collaboration for responding to public…
“Collaboration is important for effecting large-scale changes, but it is difficult, time-consuming, and requires sustained effort on the part of all collaborating parties. Collaboration among organizations within a single sector (education, policy, or advocacy, for example) is easier than collaboration across sectors, where differences in…
This webinar is part of a series on system building: “It’s one thing to identify and convene a group capable of system building. It’s another thing altogether to know what to do with them to move the group toward action. We will introduce 2-3 demonstrated…
This webinar discusses “leading models, frameworks, and principles for effective cross-sector collaboration” from peer-reviewed literature. The participants “describe the variety of objectives motivating alternate approaches, and … provide evidence about which characteristics or features of a partnership matter most in terms of advancing the group’s…