In the next few years we are likely to see dozens of social impact bonds develop in the United States.
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The NatLab is exploring the application of tools such as social impact bonds and other private financing to stimulate more GI development.
To put it simply, social impact bonds went from concept to execution faster than any other social innovation we have seen in years.
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We have provided support for the first Mayors and Governors interested in the concept by increasing their capacity to develop and execute social impact bonds.
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Social impact bonds are just one example of this accelerating innovation.
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Social impact bonds, which involve equity and are not bonds in the traditional sense, recently debuted in the UK to fund prison recidivism programs there.
Ms McInnes was leading a debate on the rehabilitation of prisoners and in particular she was highlighting Social Impact Bonds, where investors get paid a return for successful projects.
Targeting the emerging impact investing sector, social impact bonds are an innovation aimed at using private dollars to invest in proven prevention-driven programs that were typically funded by the government.
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Most of them, including the (justifiably) celebrated UK social impact bonds scheme, aim at bringing investment capital as well as the logic of capital markets to the nascent field.
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Most importantly, we know that the meteoric rise of social impact bonds is just the precursor of innovations yet to come as we continue to bring together unlikely partners in exploring the field of innovative finance.
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The Rockefeller Foundation set out on this path at the very beginning, by focusing on field and capacity building to ensure the quality of the first few social impact bonds, engaging the capital markets and traditional investors, and as investors ourselves.
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