In September 2010, our sister organization, Social Finance, Ltd., launched the world’s first Social Impact Bond in the United Kingdom. Targeted at reducing prison recidivism, the Peterborough pilot generated world-wide interest in the potential...
Social Finance publications
February 2012
Social Finance Inc.
December 2011
Social Finance
Over the last two years, Social Finance worked with the Family Fund, Council for Disabled Children, Barnardo’s, Action for Children, KIDS, and others, to understand the financial needs of families with
disabled children in the UK.
We...
November 2011
Social Finance
The launch of the first Social Impact Bond (SIB) in Peterborough in September 2010 generated an overwhelming public response. The six year Peterborough project has now come to the end of its first year. The most pressing question – have we...
November 2011
Ben Jupp
Social Impact Bonds are a form of financing that aligns investor returns with social outcomes: investors only receive a return if the social outcome is achieved.
Since Social Finance launched the first Social Impact Bond in September 2010...
September 2011
Professor Paul Corrigan
This report is about the potential applicability of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) in the health field. The SIB is a financial mechanism where investor returns are aligned with social outcomes. The SIB is based on a contract with government in which...
April 2011
Louise Savell
Social Finance’s research for the Financial Inclusion Taskforce at HM Treasury assesses the commercial viability of new banking products (Jam Jar accounts) that actively support consumers to manage their money, reducing the risk of debt and bill...
March 2011
Emily Bolton and Jenna Palumbo
This guide aims to set out the steps that are required to assess the feasibility of a Social Impact Bond (SIB) idea. It starts with the identification of a social issue where a SIB might be applicable and examines each factor that must be...
March 2011
Lisa Barclay and Diane Mak
This guide aims to set out the steps that are required to assess the feasibility of a Social Impact Bond (SIB)
idea. It starts with the identification of a social issue where a SIB might be applicable and examines each factor that must be...
March 2011
Social Finance
This guide aims to set out the steps that are required to assess the feasibility of a Social Impact Bond (SIB) idea. It starts with the identification of a social issue where a SIB might be applicable and examines each factor that must be...
March 2011
Emily Bolton and Jenna Palumbo
Social Impact Bonds are designed to increase funding for preventative services that improve social outcomes. The first Social Impact Bond funds the One* Service working with short-sentence prisoners discharged from HMP Peterborough over the next...
March 2011
Emily Bolton
In December 2010, the Ministry of Justice published a Green Paper “Breaking the cycle: effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders”. Social Finance submitted a response.
September 2010
Social Finance
An overview of the potential applications of Social Impact Bonds to reduce crime and offending.
March 2010
Social Finance
This paper explores why a new social economy is needed and the role that Social Impact Bonds could play in stimulating its creation. It draws on Social Finance’s work developing Social Impact Bond pilots to explore practical considerations around...
October 2009
Social Finance
Social Finance, working closely with KPMG, has produced a report on practical issues and concerns for charities considering merger. From research with charities that have themselves merged or considered merging, the report details the issues they...
August 2009
Social Finance
We believe that Social Impact Bonds have the potential to transform the way that a wide range of social outcomes are achieved. We have been working with a number of government departments to develop a pilot.