Pay for Success: What's Brilliant & What's Broken

When Social Impact Bonds were first introduced in the U.S. in 2012, they were celebrated as a way to improve outcomes of government funding and scale solutions through private capital. However, the outsized attention and fanfare for this untested approach resulted in a number of unrealistic expectations and subsequent frustrations as these models were implemented. Six years later, there has been significant evolution in Pay for Success financing and active projects around the country in health, education, housing, and more.

 

This one-day event features an engaging update on the ways that creative public-private collaborations and financing are driving greater efficiency and incentivizing measurable outcomes for social challenges in Seattle and around the country.