Third Sector – Leading Toward Better Outcomes
Learn how Third Sector is leading the movement toward better outcomes for communities.
Third Sector Wins Grand Prize in the Government Effectiveness Advanced Research (GEAR) Center Challenge
Third Sector is leading a team selected as one of three grand prize winners of the Government Effectiveness Advanced Research (GEAR) Center Challenge. The GEAR Center competition challenged respondents and problem solvers from the public, academia, and industry to build cross-sector, multidisciplinary teams to demonstrate the potential of the GEAR Center as a public-private partnership [...]
County of Santa Cruz Launches Two New Outcomes-Oriented Contracts
After two years of research, assessment, and design, the County of Santa Cruz Human Services Department (HSD) has launched two new two-year outcomes-oriented contracts with subsidized employment service providers.
PFS Lessons Learned from the College Access and Success Provider Perspective
Third Sector recently co-hosted a webinar with two college access and success providers, uAspire and College Forward, to discuss “Pay for Success Lessons Learned from the Provider Perspective.” As providers have a track record of supporting students day-to-day and understand firsthand what resources are necessary to ensure that students enroll in and graduate from institutions of higher education, the webinar focused on providing a platform for providers to share lessons learned with the four Pay for Success in Higher Education cohort sites. In the webinar, uAspire reflected on the organization’s
Third Sector News & Updates July 2019
Third Sector News and Updates July 2019 Third Sector Awarded $2,000,000 to Advance California Workforce Outcomes Over the next two years, Third Sector will work with up to five nonprofit grantees of The James Irvine Foundation’s Better Careers Initiative and up to ten local government agencies to advance economic opportunity in California through a $2M grant from the Foundation. Third Sector will facilitate partnerships between Better Careers grantees and public service agencies to co-design improvements on California’s public workforce funding system and pursue better outcomes in economic opportunity for the people …
Engaging Student Support Service Providers in Higher Education
This blog series is centered on Third Sector’s assessment on applicability of Pay for Success in higher education in partnership with a new cohort of stakeholders. This is blog post #3 of the series. Third Sector recently launched a national Pay For Success in Higher Education cohort of four higher education state and system partners [...]