Making the Case for Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Evidence-based practice has great potential to improve social outcomes, but only if we do a better job marketing and adapting it to address the specific problems at hand.
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Innovations in public services that promote equity and opportunity (more)
Getting More Than You Pay For With Pay-For-Success
In laying the groundwork for stronger cross-sector collaboration and outcomes-focused approaches, pay-for-success projects in Silicon Valley are reaping benefits far beyond the success they’ve agreed to invest in.
Social Services
From Family Data to Neighborhood Outcomes
By offering better early support for struggling families, child welfare services can reduce the need for more serious interventions down the line and improve the wellbeing of whole neighborhoods.
Convenient Care for the Elderly
In Japan, minimart chains such as 7-Eleven and Lawson play a major role in providing services for a burgeoning elderly population.
A Question of Outcomes
For more and more social change efforts, the key to success lies in clearly defining the desired results for beneficiaries.
Judging “Poor” Choices
Disapproval of welfare recipients who use their benefits to buy “ethical” but costly items is widespread.
Hidden Talent: How Smart Companies Are Tapping Into Unemployed Youth
Refining the raw talent of the 5.5 million young Americans out of work and out of school provides compelling opportunities for companies, youth, and society—a rare trifecta—that a growing number of corporate leaders are betting on.
After the One Child Policy
A pilot project in China aims to give the country’s family-planning agency a new mission: supporting early child development.
Social Impact Bonding
In Belgium, leaders of a nonprofit are using a pay-for-success mechanism to fund a program for young migrant job seekers.
Review
Siphoning Off the Safety Net
How social services agencies are squeezing revenue from the poor and vulnerable people they’re meant to serve.