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Word is Bond: At Duke’s Sustainable Business Summit, Excitement Around Social Bonds and Online Impact Investing Platforms
The theme of the 2012 Sustainable Business and Social Innovation (SBSI) summit at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business was Disrupting the Status Quo. Indeed, there was much discussion about new models to change business as usual in education, health and overcoming the mismatch between the size of social enterprises and the vastness of investing funds.
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- Health Care
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Nexthought Monday: Social Impact Bonds? An Innovative Mechanism for Social Change
Cut costs and increase effectiveness of social programs? Any government would probably sign up to a deal that combines both right away! And this is one of the key thoughts behind the Social Impact Bond concept developed and recently piloted by UK-based Social Finance. A closer look at how they work and what they could mean for social impact.
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- Finance, Uncategorized
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- impact bonds
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What Are Social-Impact Bonds?
By DAVID LEONHARDT My column this week describes a new strategy for improving the performance of government programs. In short, private investors - typically foundations - pay the costs of a new program in its early years, and the government later repays the investors,...
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- Finance
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- impact bonds