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The #Payforsuccess Project Assessment Tool helps people answer a fundamental question: What makes for a strong PFS project? #impinv urbn.is/2JF85F6
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Working across agencies is just one of the lesser-known actions that can be taken to better address the #opioid crisis
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Our experiences working with jurisdictions developing #payforsuccess projects have yielded these 3 #data-focused recommendations:
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Intermediaries build local capacities and create partnerships that are critical to the success of #payforsuccess
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Environmental impact bonds are innovative financing mechanisms that leverage private funding to address environmental challenges #EIB
#Payforsuccess can save governments money, shift risk to 3rd-party funders & generate return for investors. But these benefits are paired with significant challenges. So why does anyone want to do this? #impinv
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4 opportunities for investors & intermediaries to use local dollars to support their own communities #impinv urbn.is/2Mgdrfk
Is pay for success financing a good fit for the #healthcare field? This brief explores the pros and cons #impinv
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Robust data are essential for localities pursuing #payforsuccess projects to be able to identify their target population & measure outcomes, but accessing & using these data can be daunting. This tool can help:
Similar to #payforsuccess, braiding & blending can address the wrong pockets problem—plus increase funding sustainability & scale up programs
Three key strategies to help generate buy-in and support for a project—regardless of whether the end payor is a federal, state, county, or city agency, or a combination
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Cities considering #payforsuccess as a tool to fight blight could tie outcome payments to the number of blighted properties removed, number of parks added & changes in surrounding property values
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Evidence is at the core of the pay for success movement, but it's only as good as the evaluation that produces it
Intermediaries build local capacities and create partnerships that are critical to the success of #payforsuccess
Since 2010, dozens of communities around the US have explored using #payforsuccess as a financing mechanism for addressing #recidivism, #juvenilejustice, and the justice system-related costs of chronic #homelessness
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Though the #healthcare system presents significant challenges to pay for success, many of these challenges can be overcome
Environmental impact bonds offer a powerful tool that has the potential to reduce pollution and provide better public spaces for many urban residents #impinv
This #payforsuccess project aims to improve both #health & #employment outcomes for veterans with PTSD urbn.is/2PI79XN
Procuring a service provider & implementing an intervention in a #payforsuccess project require a greater focus on outcomes, performance management, leadership, and organizational strength than in a business-as-usual project
How policymakers & #payforsuccess stakeholders can incorporate #evidence into public decisionmaking: urbn.is/2NDuxRB
#Payforsuccess may provide an opportunity to address some of the challenges transitional youth face
These resources from Colorado can provide guidance for other states implementing #payforsuccess urbn.is/2UMpi5C
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Governments can & should consider engaging with #impacinvesting efforts—and in many cases already are
Through the Denver #supportivehousing social impact bond, Maria has stable housing after experiencing #homelessness for 8 years. This is how the city is paying for success: urbn.is/2OguX1Q
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The impact security could increase the amount of performance-based funding available to nonprofits & boost innovation and results-driven decisionmaking in the #impactinvesting sector
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Use this tool to assess the suitability of your #criminaljustice project for pay for success #socinn urbn.is/2AWcFzW
In theory and in practice, #payforsuccess is changing how communities solve problems. Get started with PFS here urbn.is/2P45CYQ
#Payforsuccess stakeholders can apply some key components of the Educate Girls development impact bond to their own US-based projects #DIB
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#Healthcare spending in the US has become exponentially large, but compared with its peers, the US experiences poorer health outcomes. Could #payforsuccess help counteract both of these trends?
3 lessons for service providers interested in pay for success #socent
