The Ultimate Guide to Charitable Donations
You are interested in giving to charity. But you might not know exactly where to start. What are the rules around tax deductions? What organizations are true charities? And how can you be sure your money is being used effectively? This Ultimate Guide to Charitable Donations will walk you through all the ins and outs of charitable giving, specifically from an individual donor perspective. ...
New Government Profile Pages
Wouldn't it be nice to get a nice, concise report card for any municipality across the country? A place where you can easily search and digest that community's demographic, economic and government information? And wouldn't it be even nicer to compare those numbers against peers within the state and outside? Well now you can! ...
Using Mastery and Apprenticeship to Tackle the Skills Gap
There is a growing skills gap in America. A growing percentage of people are either overskilled and underemployed, or underskilled and can’t find desirable work.This is mainly due to society’s poor valuing of mastery. If governments, businesses and schools were more incentivized to understand and leverage this concept, our jobs and the people working them might be much more aligned.This article seeks to examine this problem, provide an example for working through it, and offer ideas for solving it ...
Progress in Pay-for-Success
The world is getting closer to a more sustainable model for pay-for-success arrangements. Reinvestment Fund, out of Philadelphia, announced a $10 million fund last year to support pay-for-success projects in a portfolio approach that would diversify investors from the risk of any single project ...
Social Impact Programs Work…But Their Bonds Don’t
The United Way of Salt Lake is funding early childhood education through a pay-for-success program. The program promises significant cost savings to the State of Utah and demonstrates a strong business case to scale the program. But is that enough to make it a good social impact bond? ...