Category Archives: Resource Year
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Frequently Asked Questions
This 2016 document provides an orientation to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for Part C and Part B 619 agencies, programs, and service providers. Through answering frequently […]
Pay for Success in the U.S. – Summaries of Financed Projects
This 2015 resource contains a summary from the Institute for Child Success about eight current PFS-funded projects across a range of policy areas/service sectors. These are about PFS projects that […]
Social impact bonds: A promising new financing model to accelerate social innovation and improve government performance.
This 2011 resource provides an introduction to social impact bonds (SIBs), a type of PFS funding model. It provides a general introduction to the model, and discusses the advantages, challenges, […]
Social Innovation Fund evaluation plan guidance: A step-by-step guide to designing a rigorous evaluation
This 2014 document provides guidance for PFS grantees, subgrantees, and evaluators for preparing a PFS evaluation plan and includes a detailed suggested evaluation plan outline (including implementation and impact evaluation […]
The payoff of pay-for-success
This 2015 article describes some of the early PFS project in the U.S. and discusses some of the pros and cons of the model as currently being implemented. Citation: Rangan, […]
Frequently Asked Questions: Social Impact Bonds
This 2012 guide contains a set of common questions about Social Impact Bonds (a type of PFS model). Costa, K., Shah, S., Ungar, S., & Social Impact Bonds Working Group. […]
Foundational concepts and terms of Pay for Success
This 2015 brief addresses questions that governments and social service providers often pose when constructing, negotiating and executing a pay for success project. Roman, J. K., Eldridge, M., & Hawkins, […]
Pay for success: A primer for social innovators
This 2014 resource is directed at organizations considering using PFS to finance services and is organized as a series of curated resources, including reports and articles from the Urban Institute, […]
What are social impact bonds? An innovative financing tool for social programs
This is a general information resource about PFS that outlines some of the advantages and challenges of using PFS. Kohli, J., Besharov, D., J., & Costa, K. (2012). What are […]