Third Sector News & Updates October 2019

Over the past few months we have had many opportunities to reflect on how our work is constantly evolving and adapting to new needs and lessons learned. Read about our latest work.

Creating a national outcomes-based financing Data Advisory Council (DAC) to capture and share best practices for using data to measure the social impact of outcomes-based financing.  The investment community’s understanding of the impact made by outcome-based financing is hampered by a lack of data. As of now, there are no centralized, holistic databases of impact [...]

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Updates on Administrative Data Pilot projects, a new workforce project in California, and more!

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.

The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) released a report, “Pay for Success: The First 25”. The report provides a deep analysis into the launch, impact, and implications of the first 25 Pay for Success (PFS) projects launched in the US. This report provides a baseline understanding of what goes into every PFS contract while also explaining [...]