I am so humbled to be part of a great team that received the Accenture Public Service Innovation Award last night at the Harvard Innovation Challenge.  Our idea, which we call Instiglio, is to help governments in developing countries apply pay-for-success contracts (a k a social impact bonds) to improve service delivery in areas such as HIV/AIDS, youth gang participation, and contract teachers.  The mission of Instiglio says it best: to empower societies to discover, adopt, and scale innovative solutions to social problems.

More about the award:  www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-public-sector-innovation-award.aspx

More about our idea:  www.instiglio.org

Media Mentions:

- http://bostinno.com/2012/03/30/the-6-winners-who-walked-away-with-their-share-of-50k-from-harvards-i3-challenge/

I am excited to announce that Harvard has published my case study on Google.org!  We will be teaching it in the HBS-HKS joint course, Entrepreneurship in the Private and Social Sectors, later this semester. 

Google.org: For-Profit Philanthropy

Harvard Kennedy School of Government Case Study

Michael Belinsky

March 2012

I'm excited to announce that we have published our thesis on the first U.S. social impact bond.

"Launching the First U.S. Pay-for-Success Contract: Youth Recidivism in Massachusetts"

March 20, 2012

Michael Belinsky and Angela Wyse

Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Executive Summary

Social impact bonds expand across the UK
Vibeka Mair
Civil Society Finance
March 19, 2012

http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/11844/social_impact_bonds_expand_across_the_uk

"The first social impact bond trial in Scotland has launched, one of six projects across the UK set to be supported by sponsoring agency the Department of Work and Pensions."

So proud to be a member of this team:

http://www.echoinggreen.org/about/social-investment-council/meet-the-council