Holder: New Anti-Crime Spending is “Investment” in Innovation
by Ted Guest – The Crime Report – October 2, 2012
With government funds for new initiatives scarce as a few federal fiscal year begins, the Obama administration has announced some potentially innovative spending aimed at preventing repeat criminality.
Describing what he called “investments […] designed to aid in the development, implementation, and expansion of proven strategies for intervention,” Attorney General Eric Holder told the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention in San Diego yesterday that the Justice Department is working “to improve public safety policies
Massachusetts Selects Third Sector Capital Partners
for First-in-the-Nation “Pay for Success” Contracts
Boston, MA (August 1, 2012) – The Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced today that it has selected Third Sector Capital Partners to develop its two groundbreaking Social Innovation Financing pilots, more commonly known as “Pay for Success” contracts. Massachusetts is the first state in the nation to issue a competitive process to obtain services using social innovation financing.
Third Sector will serve as lead intermediary, in partnership with New Profit Inc., for a youth recidivism initiative and as partner to the Massachusetts
“Mass. program ties nonprofits’ pay to success”
by Dan Adams – The Boston Globe – August 1, 2012
Two groups of nonprofit social service providers have been selected by the state to tackle chronic problems with homeless people and juvenile criminals under an innovative new program that will reward the agencies if they can prove their techniques work, or pay them little or even no money if they fail.
The program, called Social Innovation Financing, operates on a simple “pay for success” model, in which nonprofits must demonstrate that by keeping youth from being reincarcerated or
