This 2015 Brookings Institute blog post summarizes a joint Institute for Child Success and Ounce of Prevention Fund event that identified what metrics to use for social impact bonds in early childhood development. Gustafsson-Wright, E., Golden, M. & Aigner-Treworgy, S. (February 13 2015). Identifying education outcomes for Social Impact Bonds for early childhood.
This brief 2014 report summarizes the experience and lessons learned of a PFS workgroup sponsored by the Institute for Child Success in South Carolina between February and October 2013 to explore PFS financing. Golden, M. (2014). Climbing the Pay for Success Learning Curve: How a working group helped South Carolina understand and prepare for PFS […]
This 2014 news and analysis piece highlights Pay-For-Success growth in California and efforts to advance in Massachusetts, Utah and New York. Donovan, D. (2014). Pay-for-Success Projects Spread to More States. The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
This 2013 working paper describes how PFS can be applied to funding of early childhood development programs. Citation: Dubno, J. A., Dugger, R. H., & Smith, M. R. (2013). Financing human capital development for economically-disadvantaged children: Applying pay for success social impact finance to early childhood development (working paper). Washington, DC: Ready Nation.
This 2012 resource is a progress report that provides an example from 2009 Pennsylvania PreK Counts to demonstrate how social impact bonds might be used to pay for early learning services. Citation: Dugger, R., & Litan, R. (2012). Early childhood “pay-for-success” social impact finance: A PKSE bond example to increase school readiness and reduce special […]
