State Of The Pay For Success Field: Opportunities, Trends & Recommendations

Released in 2015, this report was developed by Abt Associates under contract to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) as a component of the CNCS Process Evaluation of the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Pay for Success Grant Program. In 2010, CNCS launched the SIF, which funds grantmaking intermediaries to identify and grow non-profits that address pressing social problems in three focus areas — youth development, economic opportunity, and healthy futures. The SIF’s intermediary structure, and its focus on public-private partnerships to leverage investments in evidence-based programs, provides a new model for social finance that is . . .