Social Impact Bonds - A promising new financing model to accelerate social innovation and improve government performance pot

... Social Impact Bonds The social impact bond model Social impact bonds, by combining performance- based payments and market discipline, have the potential to address all six obstacles to social innovation ... www.americanprogress.org ISTOCKPHOTO/BATMAN2000 Social Impact Bonds A promising new financing model to accelerate social innovation and...

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... http://socialfinance.ca/blog/post /social- impact- bonds- may-be-coming -to- ontario-celebration -and- cautions National Union RESEARCH www.nupge.ca Determining whether a project is a success will be a long and difficult ... http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/research -and- analysis/moj-research /social- impact- bond-hmp-peterborough.pdf 7 Marie Szaniszlo, “‘P...

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... Overview u A NEW TOOL FOR SCALING IMPACT: HOW SOCIAL IMPACT BONDS CAN MOBILIZE PRIVATE CAPITAL TO ADVANCE SOCIAL GOOD SUPPORTED BY A New Tool for Scaling Impact 19 sIBs sHould Have BIPaRtIsan aPPeal as ... Returns are commensurate with social outcomes and will range between 2.5 percent and 13 percent. 9 A New Tool for Scaling Impact Q 10 SoCIAl FINANCE, I...

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... Confidential Draft- For Discussion Purposes Only Bringing Social Impact Bonds to New York City The City of New York Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor What are Social Impact Bonds? • A Social Impact ... – Savings can be recaptured and reinvested into a permanent funding stream for the program – Accelerate adoption and implementation of promising progra...

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... rules and regulations apply to services being commissioned under Social Impact Bonds will rest on a number of factors and in-house or external legal advice should be sought on a case-by-case basis. ... considerable scope for Social Impact Bonds to support new approaches to better managing long term health conditions, such as diabetes or asthma. Any additional se...

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... Social Impact Bonds makes effective measurement of social impact more valuable. Within Social Impact Bonds, social sector revenue streams are linked to organisations’ social impact creating an ... and the social outcomes improve, government pays investors a reward based on the pre-agreed payment schedule. Social Impact Bond mechanism Figure 2. Paradig...

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... variables such as age, education, marital status, and employment status, and clinical variables such as cancer stage at diagnosis, time after diagnosis, and initial treat- ment. All measures will be ... patient. Randomization Hospitals have been pre-randomized whereby patients from a certain hospital will receive either usual care and information provision or an SCP. With this so-ca...

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... Switzerland pfister@tik.ee.ethz.ch Abstract We propose a language model based on a precise, linguistically motivated grammar (a hand-crafted Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) and a statistical model estimating the probability ... grammar accept arbitrary sequences of words and phrases. To keep the gram- mar restrictive, such sequences are penalized by the statistical mo...

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