Social Finance (consultancy)
Consulting | |
Founded | 2007 |
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Headquarters | , |
Revenue | 3,967,901 Euro (2020) |
Website | socialfinance.org.uk socialfinance.org |
Social Finance is a
History
Social Finance's initial team supported the work of the Commission on Unclaimed Assets, which recommended the establishment of a Social Investment Bank in March 2007 and in turn developed the blueprint for what is now named
Social Finance helped develop the first Social Impact Bond project in the world in the UK in 2010,
In January 2011, Social Finance US was launched to bring social impact bonds to the US market.[8] Today the "Social Finance Global Network" includes Social Finance UK, Social Finance US, Social Finance Israel, Social Finance India, and Social Finance Netherlands.[2]
Social impact bonds
There are a range of interpretations of what the term ‘social impact bond’ means. Broadly speaking, social impact bonds are a type of
Social Finance UK describes social impact bonds as "a
References
- ^ a b Helen Warrell (21 April 2008). "New firm to prepare ground for Social Investment Bank". Third Sector. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ a b "About Social Finance". socialfinance.org. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- ^ "Social financial engineering". The Economist. 23 March 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ Alan Travis. "Will social impact bonds solve society's most intractable problems?". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ "BIG paves way forward through social investment". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- ^ "Private backers fund scheme to cut prisoner reoffending - BBC News". BBC News. 10 September 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ "Can the Peterborough social impact bond be judged a success?". Civil Society. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
- ^ "For Federal Programs, a Bit of Market Discipline - David Leonhardt". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ Social Finance (2016) Social Impact Bonds: The early years