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Living learning official launch

28/4/2021

 
The Living Learning program was launched on Wednesday, 28 April 2021, at the Hester Hornbrook Academy (HHA) in Sunshine in Melbourne’s west. HHA is an independent school run by Melbourne City Mission for young people disengaged from the traditional school system. The program is funded as an impact investment under the Victorian Government’s $30m ‘Partnerships Addressing Disadvantage’ (or PAD) program (also known as Social Impact Bonds, or SIBs).

The program is important not just because of the social impact on young people, but also because of the way this impact investment is structured. We co-developed a new finance structure that makes it easier for philanthropic trusts to invest in social impact investments. This structure provides opportunities for social service organisations to develop investable projects in collaboration with their philanthropic partners.

The Living Learning social impact investment was fully funded by these five philanthropic Investors:
  • Gandel Philanthropy
  • Helen Macpherson Smith Trust
  • Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation
  • Paul Ramsay Foundation​
  • The Ross Trust
​To learn more about the project structure  download the fact sheet below. You can also get in touch with us if you are considering developing a Philanthropic Impact Investment project.
Download the Living Learning Investment Fact Sheet PDF
 You can also sign up to attend a Webinar we are running with our capital advisory partners Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) and Gandel Philanthropy through Pro Bono Education on 27 May 2021. Sign up to our newsletter to receive the registration link for the webinar.
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Students and staff at Hester Hornbrook Academy campus in Sunshine, Melbourne

Beyond social impact bonds

10/7/2018

 
As governments and service providers around the world learn from the early years of Social Impact Bonds, a wider outcomes-based contracting landscape is emerging. Originally published in Pro Bono News.
​If there’s one thing most people in the social sector agree on, it’s that they want to “make a difference”. This underpins the desire to move from a focus on outputs (where we may not have evidence about whether we are making a difference), to a focus on outcomes that matter to the social service user.

Not-for-profit boards are starting to drive an outcomes focus because part of good governance is to know whether the organisation is doing something that works. An ideal social service system ensures all participants are aligned around improving outcomes for those who need it.

Yet, the social service system is still a long way from that goal.

There are plenty of pitfalls in this transition to outcomes: debates about what and how to measure; costs of data collection; worries about unintended consequences and cherry picking; and the political hurdles in shifting resources to prevention. Yet while difficult, these are technical problems that can be solved with good outcomes-based contract design and a collaborative, co-design approach with government.

We recently attended the ICS (Institute for Child Success) Pay for Success Conference in North Carolina – a conference to support outcomes-based learning with a focus on early childhood disadvantage. We heard from an early intervention project successfully preventing at-risk kids from requiring costly special education services at school. We heard of the shift of $100 million of social service spending to an outcomes basis in the state of Rhode Island. We learned about a project that prevents hospitalisations of high risk asthma patients through allergen removal in the home – saving lives and money. These are some of the dozens of projects in operation now that are based around outcomes.

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  • About
    • Our Team
    • Vision
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    • Research
    • Service Design >
      • Outcomes-based Infrastructure
    • Operations Systems
    • Data & Analytics >
      • Data Partnerships
      • Data Analytics
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    • Toward Home Case Study
    • Wellways Case Study
    • Hello Sunday Morning Case Study
    • Cricket Victoria Case Study
    • Sacred Heart Mission Case Study
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