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Social impact bonds: Using impact investment to expand effective social programs

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  • Tracy Palandjian
  • Luther Ragin

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This article focuses on how impact investors in SIBs can help drive improved performance in the US social sector while providing growth capital to effective nonprofit or social enterprise social service providers. The true power of SIBs lies in the discipline that investors can bring to the process of provider selection and delivery of social services. When government, investor, and provider expectations are aligned, SIBs have the potential to bring significant new capital and efficiencies to social service delivery.

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  • Tracy Palandjian & Luther Ragin, 2013. "Social impact bonds: Using impact investment to expand effective social programs," Community Development Innovation Review, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, issue 01, pages 063-067.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedfcr:00004
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    1. Anna Höchstädter & Barbara Scheck, 2015. "What’s in a Name: An Analysis of Impact Investing Understandings by Academics and Practitioners," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 132(2), pages 449-475, December.
    2. Cristina Coscia & Subhash Mukerjee & Bianca Ludovica Palmieri & Chiara Quintanal Rivacoba, 2020. "Enhancing the Sustainability of Social Housing Policies through the Social Impact Approach: Innovative Perspectives form a “Paris Affordable Housing Challenge” Project in France," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(23), pages 1-27, November.
    3. Paweł Mikołajczak, 2023. "Comparative study of social impact bonds – capital per beneficiary and scheme duration," Bank i Kredyt, Narodowy Bank Polski, vol. 54(2), pages 191-220.

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