Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) represent a new and particularly disruptive form of social service privatization that bears resemblance to the introduction of public private partnerships for the development of hard infrastructure. Social impact bonds pose a major risk to the preservation of valuable public services. Based on this detailed critique, unions and non-profit organizations involved in the delivery of services to people must oppose them.
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) represent a new and particularly disruptive form of social service privatization that bears resemblance to the introduction of public private partnerships for the development of hard infrastructure. Social impact bonds pose a major risk to the preservation of valuable public services. Based on this detailed critique, unions and non-profit organizations involved in the delivery of services to people must oppose them.
BOSTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Massachusetts said on Wednesdayit will fight youth crime in the state by using the nation'slargest social impact bond - an alternative way to fundgovernment programs that
Sir Ronald Cohen, outgoing chair of Big Society Capital, has said social investment is gaining traction internationally, with both Nando's and Goldman Sachs launching new social investment products.
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Minister for Employment and Social Development and Minister of Multiculturalism Jason Kenney delivers a keynote speech at the Social Enterprise World Forum.
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How much should we trust private corporations to solve public problems? That’s the question cash-strapped state and local governments are asking as they experiment with private partnerships to fill the funding gaps that tax dollars can’t.
While energy around social impact bonds continues to build in places like Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., Enterprising Non-profits Canada team manager David LePage is calling for clarity and more expansive thinking.
There is something in the air. Collaborative working spaces, social innovation, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, impact investing, social impact bonds, vent