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Making braiding easier: what can federal agencies do?
Over the past several years, Trust for America’s Health has convened experts, highlighted model programs, and generated policy recommendations with the goal of improving health and social outcomes through multi-sector collaboration. One theme that has repeatedly emerged is that financial sustainability is key to the long-term success of such multi-sector efforts.
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Braiding and blending: managing multiple funds to improve health
This blog series “Uniting funding streams for health and social innovation” is a collaboration between the Urban Institute’s Pay for Success Initiative (PFSI) and The Brookings Institution-hosted Braiding and Blending Working Group. Though not every post is focused on pay for success, the working group and this blog series aligns with the PFSI mission of researching and supporting innovative financing solutions to today’s most pressing challenges. This series highlights the research of experts in healthcare financing focused on creative approaches.
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A new resource to improve data governance in pay for success
Reliable data and strong local partnerships allow governments and service providers to understand a target population, track the population’s activities, and measure the impact of their programs. Robust data are essential for localities pursuing pay for success (PFS) projects to be able to identify their target population and measure outcomes that are linked to payments. But accessing and using these data that are critical to program success can be daunting.
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How procurement officials can strengthen PFS projects
I recently presented at the NIGP: The Institute for Public Procurement’s annual conference with my colleague Rayanne Hawkins. Throughout the presentation on pay for success (PFS) and procurement, we highlighted lessons from existing projects to underscore how a strong procurement process can improve a PFS project.
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Perkins update promotes evidence and innovation in career and technical education
At the end of last month, the President signed the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act into law--the most significant piece of education legislation of his administration so far. The bipartisan legislation allows the US Department of Education to fund pay for success (PFS) initiatives that will prepare students and adults to enter the workforce.