Building Partnerships and Investments to Measurably Improve Lives
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The Latest From Social Finance
The Social Finance Impact First Fund Launches as One-Stop Solution For Individuals, Family Offices, Foundations, and Donor-Advised Funds Seeking to Catalyze Positive Impact
Karen Anderson Joins Social Finance to Lead New Institute
Social Finance and Five Philanthropic Funders Launch Pay It Forward Fund to Prepare Coloradans for Good Jobs
What We Do
Social Finance mobilizes data, funding, and ideas to produce meaningful outcomes.Pioneering Innovative Finance for Social Progress
Since 2011, we have mobilized $350 million in new investments designed to help people and communities realize measurable outcomes in education, workforce and economic mobility, health, and housing, from expanding access to job training to providing permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness.- $350M mobilized
- 40K people accessing quality job training
- 30+ states where we work
Featured Work
Colorado Pay It Forward Fund
$8MPrivate capital raised to seed the Fund
Boosting Childhood Health in Connecticut
3,000Caregivers receiving improved home visiting services in Connecticut
Google Career Certificates Fund
$1BTargeted wage gains for 20,000+ learners through a $100 million fund
Impact Stories
More than $315,000 in outcomes payments to home visiting providers in Missouri for positive health outcomes achieved
Children’s Trust Fund of Missouri outcomes rate card
The course I took through Merit America was exactly what I needed to build on my existing skills and break through to a new career.
Laura
Merit America graduate
Merit America graduate
The New Jersey Pay It Forward stipend and emergency aid funds helped me focus on my classes and worry less. The no-interest loan helps me stay in the here and now, instead of worrying too much about the compounding interest I would have to pay in the future.
Eunice
New Jersey Pay It Forward Participant
New Jersey Pay It Forward Participant