Social Finance

Mobilizing investment capital to drive social progress.

Overview

Founded in January 2011 Social Finance US is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is dedicated to mobilizing investment capital to drive social progress. Social Finance believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive and that social impact financing can play a catalytic role in creating these opportunities.Social Finance is dedicated to designing public private nonprofit partnerships that tackle complex social challenges such as poverty crime education health and workforce success. As market intermediaries Social Finance structures these partnerships by aligning the unique interest of all stakeholders a service recipients and providers government and investors a to create innovative social financing solutions. Core to their work is the development of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) which draw upon private capital to fund effective interventions designed to address the needs of the underserved. Social Impact Bonds have the potential to unlock a new and vast pool of investment capital to finance the expansion of effective prevention based projects while focusing on measurable outcomes and generating social and financial returns for investors.