Prolonged austerity is creating conditions whereby venture capital, through public-private partnerships, will begin to provide more and more public services. This will be accomplished through impact investments, Pay for Success programs, and social impact bonds. Digital platforms will be used to generate the data by which these investments will be evaluated. The emphasis on digitization and big data will continue to dehumanize public education. The entities below are part of this shift, which was initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007. For additional background see the following:
Tim Scott’s Social Impact Bonds: The Titans of Finance as the Altruistic Merchants of Schooling and the Common Good from Dissident Voice, November 2, 2016 and also Impact Investing and Venture Philanthropy’s Role in Sowing the Seeds of Financial Opportunity from Dissident Voice February 17, 2017.
What You Should Know About “Pay for Success” as Testing Season Approaches, Why Global Finance Needs Our Schools to Fail, and Reinventing Public Education for Impact Investing by Wrench In The Gears.
Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, UPenn: Website
America Forward: Website
American Enterprise Institute: Website and Moneyball for Education
Arnold Foundation: Website
Atlantic Philanthropies: Website
B Analytics (GIIRs): Website and B Lab: Website
Ballmer Group: Website
Bank of America: Website
Bloomberg Philanthropies: Website
Bridges Fund Management (Formerly Bridges Ventures): Website
Bridgespan Group: Website
California Education Policy Fund: Website
Center for Law and Social Policy: Website
CLASP-Center for Law and Social Policy: Website
Connecticut Center for Social Innovation: Website
Corporation for National and Community Service (Social Innovation Fund): Website
Council for a Strong America (StrongNation): Website
Duke University Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship: Website
Emerson Collective Website and XQ Superschool Program: Website
Evidence-Based Policy Making Collaborative: Website
Federal Reserve Bank of San Fransisco: Website
Ford Foundation: Website
FSG Consulting: Website
G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force: Website
Georgetown Beeck Center: Website
Goldman Sachs: Website
Harvard University Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (Social Impact Bonds): Website
IBM Center for the Business of Government: Website
ideas42 (formerly Behavioral Ideas Lab): Website
Impact for Education: Website
Institute for Child Success: Website
J. P. Morgan Chase: Website
James Irvine Foundation: Website
MaRS Centre for Impact Investing (Canada): Website
Mission Investors Exchange: Website
MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy: Website
MRDC: Website
NESTA (UK): Website
New Profit: Website
Non Profit Finance Fund: Website
Omidyar Network: Website
Parthenon EY: Website
Pay For Success Lab, University of Virginia: Website
Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative: Website
Pritzker Family Foundation: Website
Project Evident: Website
QBE Insurance Group (Australia): Website
ReadyNation: Website
Results for America: Website
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Website
Rockefeller Foundation: Website
SOCAP (Social Capital Markets): Website
Social Finance: US Website, UK Website
Social Impact Exchange: Website
Social Innovation Fund: Website
Social Innovation Research Center: Website
Sorenson Impact, University of Utah: Website
Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society-Global Innovation for Impact Lab: Website
Stanford Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation: Website
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Website
Strivetogether: Website
Third Sector Capital Partners: Website
Third Way: Website
Tides Foundation: Website
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Social Impact Initiative: Website
Urban Institute: Website
USAID: Website
WestEd: Website
World Bank: Website
World Economic Forum: Website
