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

It’s graduation season, which means people across the country are thinking about entering the job market. Third Sector Capital Partners, a grantee of the Social Innovation Fund’s Pay for Success program, is currently working to improve employment outcomes for urban young adults by working with Year Up, a Boston-based organization that seeks to improve employment outcomes for urban young adults. Year Up’s Professional Training Corps (PTC) model is an intensive one-year program for 18-to-24-year-olds who are disconnected from both school and work. In 14 locations nationwide, Corps participants spend six months

Third Sector was named a 2015 Game Changer by the Boston Globe Magazine in this week’s issue, which featured CEO and Co-Founder George Overholser’s bet “that data will help make a difference solving some of the most intractable social problems, from juvenile delinquency to homelessness.” The article also cites Third Sector’s work on the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice PFS Initiative, where Roca, Inc. is working with over 900 young men in Boston, Chelsea and Springfield in order to reduce the days they spend in jail and increase their employment opportunities.