We opened up our San Francisco office in late October to host an exciting conversation about how Pay for Success (PFS) is impacting our most at-risk populations across the country. The event, “Scaling Social Impact: Pay for Success & Social Impact Bonds”, was co-hosted with the Net Impact San Francisco Professional Chapter. Net Impact is [...]

Constructing Pay for Success contracts is an inherently cross-sector practice. Each of our projects brings together government, nonprofit, and private stakeholders to address our most pressing social issues. In a sense, the Pay for Success (PFS) model itself is an acknowledgement that no one organization can create effective and sustainable change on their own, without [...]

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) has announced two of our partners, Santa Clara County and Hillside Family of Agencies, have been selected as grant recipients through the federal Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Pay for Success initiative.

Santa Clara County has been awarded the SIF grant to launch a Pay for Success project serving individuals with acute mental illness. The selected service provider, Telecare Corporation, will focus on clients who have frequent stays in psychiatric emergency care, and ensure these patients are stabilized in less restrictive, community-based environments. The SIF grant supports Third

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved the selection of Telecare Corporation as the service provider for a Pay for Success project to improve stability and wellness of some of the County’s most severely mentally ill individuals through intensive outpatient treatment, case management, and supportive services.

“Improving the stability and wellness of members of our community who suffer from acute mental illness is a high priority for the County,” said President Dave Cortese, County of Santa Clara. “We are hopeful that through this project, we’ll be able to offer more

The Alliance for Children and Families launched Disruptive Forces in Action to showcase the innovative ways its members and others in the sector are harnessing the six forces introduced in its 2011 report, Disruptive Forces: Driving a Human Services Revolution. In its case study of Attracting Investors, Not Donors, Alliance member Hillside Family of Agencies and issue expert Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc. discuss Pay for Success, an emerging funding model that unites nonprofits, government, and philanthropic and corporate investors around achieving a social return on investment.

Hillside has partnered with Third Sector

Mayor Martin Walsh announced on Monday an effort to identify ways to improve post-high school graduation outcomes for Boston Public Schools’ students. The City has worked with Third Sector to release a Request for Information (RFI) to identify effective programs and services that will increase access to higher education and training and would be funded through a Pay for Success model. The Office of the Chief of Education, along with the Boston Public Schools, have put forth efforts to improve outcomes for youth, including the High School Redesign effort and Success