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This blog has moved to michaelbelinsky.com .

Three recent social impact bond developments

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A lot of interesting things have been happening in the social impact bond space over the past several weeks. Here is a recap of three major ...

Reflections on the SOCAP Conference in San Francisco

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Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend SOCAP , the Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco. I attended as a Social Entrepr...

Harvard's CID launches Building State Capability, features Instiglio

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Harvard Kennedy School's Center for International Development has launched a new research program, Building State Capability . The goal...

Published in Colombia's Portafolio

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My Instiglio colleagues Michael Eddy, Avnish Gungadurdoss and I were recently published in the op-ed section of Portafolio, Colombia's ...

US Department of Labor Social Impact Bond Update (cross-posted from Instiglio.org)

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Cross-posted from Instiglio . In this blog post, we comment on the recent information regarding savings and intermediation released by t...

Private Investment in Social Impact Bonds

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I just published some thoughts about the Goldman Sachs social impact bond deal in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Private Investmen...

Minnesota's pay-for-performance pilot

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As part of its effort to create a pay-for-performance pilot, Minnesota recently released a request for information that asks the public to s...

Justice Project Pakistan wins the Echoing Green fellowship

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I am so excited that Sarah Belal , founder of Justice Project Pakistan , won the Echoing Green fellowship this past month. As a member of t...

Imitator protests: Hong Kong, Middle East, and elsewhere

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There have been many political protests over the past twelve months, from the Middle East to Wall Street, from Russia during the elections t...

SEC wants vote on money market mutual fund regulation

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It’s interesting that SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro is only now increasing regulation of money market mutual funds. MMMFs are mutual funds ...

A Clockwork Miracle

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My friend Latif Nasser, Dartmouth '08, files a great story in the annals of the history of science on NPR's RadioLab .

Update on social impact bonds in Australia

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The New South Wales government in Australia has made some progress with its social impact bond program. NSW started looking at SIBs about a ...

Social impact bonds in international development

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Elizabeth Littlefield of OPIC (and previously head of CGAP at the World Bank) recently chaired a Steering Committee discussion on the appli...

Social impact bonds on YouTube

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Here are some recent and earlier videos about social impact bonds. 1. An old announcement of the launch of the Peterborough social impact bo...

EU and social impact bonds

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Social impact bonds seem to have caught the attention of the European Union. According to this website , the EU's Employment, Social Aff...

OMB May 18 memo on pay-for-success

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In a May 18 memo titled "Use of Evidence and Evaluation in the 2012 Budget," the Office of Management and Budget describes pay-for...

McKinsey's report on social impact bonds

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McKinsey's Social Sector Office has continued their work with social impact bonds. Yesterday, they issued a 68-page report that analyze...

Christine Lagarde as a tri-sector athlete

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I was excited to see Christine Lagarde interviewed by the recently created Tri Sector Forum. TSF aims to identify and empower individuals wh...

Increased state revenue

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Patrick Lester at Driving Social Impact writes about some promising news for social services funding at the state level:      According...