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Sorenson Impact Center announces awardees for Pay for Success grant

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, [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:36-07:00February 21st, 2017|

Sorenson Impact Center featured in Forbes

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 [...]

Jerry Norton2016-10-07T17:46:15-06:00October 7th, 2016|

Pima County and Sorenson Impact Center to Begin Implementing $1.3M Grant

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) [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:48-07:00October 7th, 2016|

The Sorenson Impact Center and Social Finance Announce Pay for Success Competition

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 [...]

Jerry Norton2016-10-04T14:02:42-06:00October 4th, 2016|

James Lee Sorenson named to University of Utah Board of Trustees

The University of Utah announced today that James Lee Sorenson has been appointed to the university’s Board of Trustees. This news is particularly exciting to the David Eccles School of Business, as Sorenson is a former member of its international board of advisors and has contributed many resources to the expansion of the school. “As Utah’s flagship institution of higher learning, this great university [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:53-07:00August 1st, 2016|

Study: Military-spouse underemployment costs society $1 billion

Military spouses who are struggling to find jobs cost society anywhere from $710 million to $1.07 billion a year, according to a new study. The study — commissioned by Blue Star Families, conducted by the Sorenson Impact Center at the Eccles School and funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation — found that difficult employment situations are causing unemployment and underemployment for spouses of those [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:57-07:00May 25th, 2016|

Jim Sorenson testifies to Congress about Sorenson Impact Center

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 [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:08:00-07:00May 13th, 2016|