Increasing rent prices have left many families struggling to make ends meet, fearing homelessness or displacement.
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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation brings an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to social innovation research. Through relevant, rigorous research, Price Center faculty explore a variety of topics that seek to inform and advance new models of equity and opportunity for low-income children and families.
Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based payment systems in the UK and US
Year: 2018
Pay for Success is an approach to contracting that ties payment for service delivery to the achievement of measurable outcomes. Private investors provide upfront financing for a social service and are repaid with a return on investment by a back-end … Continue reading
Do hybrid firms out-provide traditional business structures? An examination of prosocial behavior in North Carolina firms
USC Price Center for Social Innovation
Year: 2018
Hybrid organizations are organizations that employ a for-profit model with a social mission. In recent years, there has been a push to create formal legal designations that protect the organization’s social mission while allowing it to access investment capital and … Continue reading
Pay For Success
Year: 2018
A concise introduction to the “pay for success” model with resource links for additional study.
What Is Collective Impact
Year: 2018
A concise introduction to the concept of “collective impact” with two examples of significant initiatives in Los Angeles.
Morongo Basin Community Health Needs Assessment
Year: 2017
The USC Price Center for Social Innovation collaborated with the Morongo Basin Healthcare District to produce a community health needs assessment for the Morongo Basin. Read the full report here.