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Joanna Kuang

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Joanna Kuang
Joanna is a Senior Associate in Third Sector’s San Francisco office and previously in the Boston office. She works directly with local, county, and state governments to develop incentive structures that drive resources towards meaningful results for under-resourced and marginalized communities. Joanna also leads Third Sector’s work to embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into recruitment and retention practices.

Shifting the Poverty Paradigm: Moving to Results that Matter in Washington State

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“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” - Albert Einstein Washington State (WA) Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) Secretary Ross Hunter opened with the quote above at the 2019 National TANF State Directors’ Meeting, Helping Families to Overcome: Partnering to Build a Stronger Society on September 18, [...]
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Outcomes-Based Financing Data Advisory Council

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Creating a national outcomes-based financing Data Advisory Council (DAC) to capture and share best practices for using data to measure the social impact of outcomes-based financing.  The investment community’s understanding of the impact made by outcome-based financing is hampered by a lack of data. As of now, there are no centralized, holistic databases of impact [...]
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Third Sector Wins Grand Prize in the Government Effectiveness Advanced Research (GEAR) Center Challenge

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Third Sector is leading a team selected as one of three grand prize winners of the Government Effectiveness Advanced Research (GEAR) Center Challenge. The GEAR Center competition challenged respondents and problem solvers from the public, academia, and industry to build cross-sector, multidisciplinary teams to demonstrate the potential of the GEAR Center as a public-private partnership [...]
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PFS Lessons Learned from the College Access and Success Provider Perspective

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Third Sector recently co-hosted a webinar with two college access and success providers, uAspire and College Forward, to discuss “Pay for Success Lessons Learned from the Provider Perspective.” As providers have a track record of supporting students day-to-day and understand firsthand what resources are necessary to ensure that students enroll in and graduate from institutions of higher education, the webinar focused on providing a platform for providers to share lessons learned with the four Pay for Success in Higher Education cohort sites. In the webinar, uAspire reflected on the organization’s

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Engaging Student Support Service Providers in Higher Education

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This blog series is centered on Third Sector’s assessment on applicability of Pay for Success in higher education in partnership with a new cohort of stakeholders. This is blog post #3 of the series. Third Sector recently launched a national Pay For Success in Higher Education cohort of four higher education state and system partners [...]
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Four Communities Selected to Receive Training and Technical Assistance in Third Sector’s PFS in Higher Education National Cohort

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Third Sector announced its new PFS in Higher Education national cohort today with the selection of four communities that will receive training and technical assistance in using Pay for Success to fund student access and success programs.

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