Pay for Success is in full swing at the Sorenson Impact Center. A competition and a new initiative were unveiled this week. The Center — part of the David Eccles School of Business — has awarded seven subgrants to government entities and non-profit service providers, allowing them to participate in a Pay for Success feasibility program. The new subgrantees aim to implement interventions in the [...]
The Sorenson Impact Center, a grantee of the Corporation for National and Community Service’s (CNCS) Social Innovation Fund (SIF), today announced three awardees that will receive tailored data services in support of Pay for Success projects. The awardees include Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Northwest Oregon Kinder Ready Collaboration and the San Diego Workforce Partnership. President and CEO of Sorenson Impact, [...]
The Sorenson Impact Center is paving the way for groundbreaking programs in social impact financing. Forbes contributor Devin Thorpe took note and published this lead in his recent piece about how the David Eccles School of Business, the University of Utah and Salt Lake County at the forefront of this world changing program. It is almost as if the earth shifted a few degrees [...]
The Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business and Pima County, Ariz. today announced a groundbreaking effort to address the causes of homelessness in Pima County. Together, they are preparing to implement a $1.3 million federal “Pay for Success” (PFS) Supportive Housing Demonstration Grant, the first of its kind in Arizona. Funded by the Department of Justice (DOJ) [...]
The Sorenson Impact Center and Social Finance today launched a Pay for Success (PFS) competition with a geographical focus to develop PFS projects that expand high-impact social interventions to measurably improve the lives of those in need. The competition is supported through funding from the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Pay for Success is an innovative [...]
Jim Sorenson, the business entrepreneur turned philanthropist who founded the Sorenson Impact Center at the Eccles School, testified about the center’s work this week to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. During his testimony, Sorenson highlighted the work and mission of the applied academic center to accelerate sustainable social change through the use of capital, innovation, data, and cross-sector collaboration. In the four years [...]
The Sorenson Impact Center is our applied academic institution dedicated to facilitating innovative cross-sector and evidence-based policies and programs. One such Congrats to the subgrantees selected for our 2016 #PayforSuccess Fellowship Program! Read the full press release here. Today, the Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business announced the selection of 3 governmental entities and 4 nonprofit service [...]