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.
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Siphoning Off the Safety Net
How social services agencies are squeezing revenue from the poor and vulnerable people they’re meant to serve.
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Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government
This excerpt from the newly released book Delivering on Digital looks at how the government in New South Wales, Australia, has used digital technologies and human-centered design to build a welfare system centered around individual children.
On the Brink—Providers Under Pressure
The collapse of New York’s largest nonprofit human services agency is an urgent reminder of the need for funding reform.
Charity Versus Innovation
The response by US foundations to federal welfare reform in the 1990s illuminates their role in policy development.
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Using Fair Housing to Achieve Health Equity
Fair housing initiatives that focus on dispersion ignore the social structures and processes that result in the inequitable distribution of resources necessary for health.
Serving Up Data
The Human Needs Index offers complex, near-real-time information on how people across the United States use social services.
Review
A First-Class Solution
The success of the Housing First movement shows why social service providers must listen to the people they serve.
Lost to Foreclosure
One of the cities hit hardest by the wave of home foreclosures was Stockton, Calif., a city that later declared bankruptcy.
Money for Nothing?
In the Netherlands, a modest experiment in welfare policy taps into a very big idea: universal basic income.