Santa Clara County Hires Third Sector to Construct and Implement Pay for Success Pilot Project 

Santa Clara County’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on August 27, 2013 to advance the County’s pursuit of Pay for Success (PFS). The Board’s vote allocated $75,000 in funding for Third Sector Capital Partners (Third Sector). The Sobrato Family Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation will match the County’s support.

The County’s funding is an important evolution in the PFS field and demonstrates government’s increasing interest in providing financial support for PFS exploration and project construction.

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Third Sector recently testified at an informational hearing on social innovation finance (SIF) held by the California state legislature. The hearing, What is the Role of Social Innovation Financing in California?: Are we ready for Social Impact Bonds, was called by the Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee and the Select Committee on Procurement. Senators Curren Price and Ted Lieu chaired the hearing.

Invited by the California legislature to share information about Third Sector’s experience developing and implementing SIF projects around the country, Caroline Whistler, Third Sector Co-Founder & Partner, testified about the Massachusetts’ juvenile justice

Third Sector partners George Overholser and Caroline Whistler have written an article prominently featured in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Community Development Investment Review. “The Real Revolution of Pay for Success: Ending 40 Years of Stagnant Results for Communities” discusses how Pay for Success and Social Innovation Finance have the potential to improve the performance of America’s social sector, accelerating a historically slow march of social progress.

The Review features 22 articles exploring Pay for Success financing; authors include representatives of Third Sector collaborators Roca, the Massachusetts Housing and

Social Solutions Webinar:
Pay for Success from the Service Provider Perspective

Roca’s Experience with Preparations and Contract Negotiations in Massachusetts

January 28, 2013

John Grossman, Partner & General Counsel, recently participated in a webinar hosted by Social Solutions that focused on Pay for Success from the perspective of service providers. The webinar looks at how Roca, a performance-driven provider of services to young people at high risk of incarceration, worked with Third Sector Capital Partners to prepare for and determine that a PFS contract would be worth pursuing.

Moderator:

Ingvild Bjornvold, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Social Solutions

Speakers:

Bill

Cuyahoga County Partners with Third Sector Capital Partners on Pay for Success Pilot Procurement READ THE PRESS RELEASE Boston, MA and Cleveland, OH (November 2, 2012) – Cuyahoga County, OH became the first County government in the United States to release a Request for Responses (RFR) for a Pay for Success pilot. Third Sector Capital [...]

Third Sector CEO and Co-Founder George Overholser participated in a webcast hosted by the Council of Development Finance Agencies and BNY Mellon that focused on the rise of social impact bonds. Overholser was joined during this webcast by Navjeet Bal from Nixon Peabody and Deborah Burand from the University of Michigan to discuss how these [...]