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This article originally appeared on the Living Cities’ blog as a part of their new series which celebrates the five year anniversary of their first PFS project, and shares reflections from them and their partners on new directions in PFS. For updates, follow their Pay for Success Newsletter.

Nearly one in every seven youth and young adults across the United States are neither employed nor in school. Nationwide, this amounts to approximately six million disconnected or “opportunity youth” who face barriers to employment, including limited community resources, low-performing schools, and inadequate assistance from

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Third Sector Capital Partners and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality will provide assistance in evaluating social programs that address homelessness, unemployment, and family disadvantage.

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The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and Third Sector Capital Partners have joined with three state and local governments to develop a new big-data infrastructure for evaluating programs that aim to increase economic opportunity.

The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, the Santa Cruz Human Services Department, and the Washington Department of Early Learning will receive research and development support from Stanford and

Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc. (Third Sector) Board of Directors formally announced today new roles for co-founders Caroline Whistler and George Overholser.

Beginning March 15, 2017, Caroline Whistler will be promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and George Overholser will transition from his current role as CEO to Board Chair.

Whistler and Overholser, along with Third Sector board member Drew von Glahn, established the organization in 2011 to accelerate America’s transition to a performance-driven social sector. As leading innovators and implementers in the field of outcomes-based social policy, Third Sector

Rauner Administration Moves to Improve Outcomes for Dually-Involved Youth 

Pay for Success initiative aims to reduce stays in institutional care, prevent repeat criminal behavior

CHICAGO – Governor Bruce Rauner and Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Director George Sheldon today announced the next step to improving outcomes for youth who are involved in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems through a first-of-its-kind pay for success initiative.

“Many youth in the juvenile justice system have endured a breakdown in their families,” said Governor Rauner. “This project

Largest federal Pay for Success Round 2 grant will establish “Performance Hubs” and tools for communities to embed data analytics into service delivery programs for child welfare, homelessness, and juvenile justice services.

Third Sector is pleased to announce that it has received a $2.4 million federal grant from the Social Innovation Fund, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, to create a tech-enabled ecosystem of high-quality data for service providers and develop the pipeline of “Pay for Success (PFS)-ready” governments. The project is also funded by a $2.6