Social Impact Bonds

A Social impact bond is a contract with the public sector in which a commitment is made to pay for improved social outcomes that result in public sector savings.

Goldman Sachs Will Jump Into the Social Impact Investing World, Using Paul Tudor Jones Jones’ Metric to Build a New Exchange-Traded Fund (Financial Post, June 2018)

Fidelity Charitable Study Finds Impact Investing at Tipping Point, Announces Expansion of Its Impact Investing Program (Business Wire, June 2018)

Wealthy Millennials Fuel Impact Investing Gains (Barron’s, June 2018)

From Affordable Housing to Money Transfers for Immigrants, a $1 Billion Impact Investor Explains How She Makes Money While Making the World a Better Place (Business Insider,
June 2018)

African Impact Investors Can Have Their Cake and Eat it Too (Disrupt, June 2018)

Impact Investors Seem Happier with Their Deal Flow (Forbes, June 2018)

Impact Investing Offers New Directions for Philanthropists (NYN Media, June 2018)

Can Booming Social Bond Market Really Turn Finance to the Good Side (Ethical Corporation, June 2018)

The Invisible Heart Trailer, a Documentary That Follows Two Social Impact Bonds in North America (YouTube, 2018)

The Invisible Heart Website, a Film That Explores all Sides of the Issue and Spans Over Three Years Following Everyone Involved in the SIBs (2018)

CBC Interview with the Director of The Invisible Heart, Nadine Pequeneza (CBC, May 2018)

CBC Radio Debate with Adam Jagelewki (advocate)and David Macdonald (critic)on Social Impact Bonds (CBC Radio, May 2018)

Social Impact Bonds: Are They Too Good To Be True? (JUA Blog, May 2018)

What Happens When Social Services Become a Private Investment Product (The Spin Off, May 2018)

Why Environmental Impact Bonds are Catching On (Governing, May 2018)

“Pay for Success” is Changing the Way Cities Confront the Homeless Problem (Governing, May 2018)

Private Investment in Social Services an ‘Opportunity’ (Leader Post, May 2018)

Social Impact Bond: Film Questions Investors Profiting From Social Services (Reuters, May 2018)

A Critical Reflection on Social Impact Bonds (Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 2018)

Documentary Tracking the Fastest Growing Social Innovation in Modern History: Social Impact Bonds (The Invisible Heart, 2018)

Investing to Make Social Impact (Today Online, April 2018)

Liberals Plan to Add Social Financing to More Federal Spending (The Star, April 2018)

Impact Bonds in Developing Countries: Early Learnings from the field (Brookings, September 2017)

The pros and cons of ethical debt instruments (United Nations Development Program, September 2017)

New Study Warns NFPs Need Strong Culture and Profits to Survive (Probono Australia, September 2017)

QLD’s Latest Social Benefit Bond Targets Reoffending (Probono Australia, September 2017

Australia’s First Social Impact Bond is Growing Stronger By The Year: Australia’s First Social Impact Bond is Growing Stronger By The Year: Australia’s first social impact bond, the Uniting Newpin Social Benefit Bond (SBB), has recorded positive growth for the fourth year in a row, with more than 200 children returned to family care, while 55 families were prevented from having their children enter the out-of-home care system. (Probono Australia, September 2017)

Good Money Microfinance Celebrates Five Years of Three-Way Partnership (Probono Australia, September 2017)

ICRC launches world’s first Humanitarian Impact Bond (Devex, September 2017)

Pushing the Role of Government in Growing Impact Investment (Probono Australia, August 2017)

How Ottawa’s Budget 2018 can reduce poverty and homelessness (Globe & Mail, August 2017) – mentions SIBs as new program design that could be tested

Youth charity’s impactful work with care leavers gets a £45,000 boost (Cubria, August 2017)

Why You Should Start Considering Socially Responsible Investing (Crowdfund Insider, August 2017)

Social investment market grows to almost £2bn (Civil Society UK)

Peterborough social impact bond investors repaid in full (Civil Society UK, July 2017)

Japan’s ‘social impact bond’ gets first batch of investors (New York Daily News, July 2017)

Social impact bonds aim to fill government-spending gaps in Israel (Impact Alpha, July 2017)

Building the Australian social benefit bond market (Investment Magazine, July 2017)

Impact investment to close the SDG funding gap (United Nations Development Program, July 2017)

An Argument for Investing Where the Return Is Social Change (April 5, 2021)

Millennials look to make a social impact with their investing dollar, study finds (July 14, 2020)

What a year: A review of the global impact bonds market in 2020 (Jan 7, 2021)

Could social impact bonds make a comeback as part of the Covid recovery? (June 24, 2021)

A review of the global impact bonds market in 2021 and what to expect in 2022 (January 6, 2022)

2021 Social Bond Impact Report (2021)

Why social bonds will have staying power (August 12, 2021)

Investing in Social Outcomes: Development Impact Bonds

Social Impact Bonds, Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Valuation of Social Programs (July 2020)

Social Impact Bonds and the Financing of Child Welfare Revisited (June 18, 2020)

Aura Completes Three Social Bond Issuances Totaling $145 million Over Last 4 Months (September 2019)

Social and Development Impact Bonds by the Numbers (September 2019)

Health Canada Looks to Private-Sector Cash to Fund Opioids Solution (September 2019)

Financial Advisors Lag Behind Clients on Impact Investing (September 2019)

Wealthy Investors Questions Paths to Sustainable Investing (September 2019)

Impact Investing ‘Offers Less Risk’ for Clients (September 2019)

This VP Proves Impact Investments Yield Big Returns for Investors and Communities (September 2019)

Navigating the Complexities of Social Impact Bonds for the SDGs (United Nations Development Programme, April 2019)

Why Hasn’t Sustainable Investing Gone Viral Yet? (Forbes, April 2019)

Global Sustainable Investing Assets Surged to $30 Trillion in 2018 (GreenBiz, April 2019)

Investing for Impact Doubles as Savers Seek to do Good (The Globe and Mail, April 2019)

Socially Responsible Investing Has A Politics Problem (Forbes, April 2019)

GIIN Looks to Define Growing Impact Investing Market (Devex, April 2019)

Social Impact Investing Is Growing in Importance Among New Generation of Advisors According to Financial Advisor Survey (Business Wire, January 2019)

A Global Snapshot: Impact Bonds in 2018 (Brookings, January 2019)

TVO Original The Invisible Heart Investigates the Potential Promise and Perils of Social Impact Bonds: ary 22 on TVO and tvo.org/documentaries (TVO, January 2019) Premieres January 22 on TVO and tvo.org

Manitoba Announces First Social Impact Bond (Government of Manitoba, January 2019)

Manitoba Strikes Social Impact Bond Partnership to Keep Indigenous Infants Out of Care (Winnipeg Sun, January 2019)

Manitoba’s 1^st Social Impact Bond Hopes to Raise $3M to Help At-Risk Moms (CBC News, January 2019)

Social Impact Bond Could Cost Tax Payers More, Keep Kids Who Need Help Out of Care: Experts (CBC News, January 2019)

Manitoba Strikes Social Impact Bond Partnership to Keep Indigenous Infants Out of Care (Winnipeg Sun, January 2019)

Tara Petti (CEO, Southern First Nations Network of Care) and Jolene Mercer (Wiijii’idiwag Ikwewag) Discuss the Manitoba SIB “Restoring the Sacred Bond” (CTV News, January 2019)

Impact Investing, Just a Trend of the Bet Strategy to Help Save Our World (Forbes, December 2018)

Social Impact Bonds: More Than One Approach (Stanford Social Innovation Review, December 2018)

The Top Global Social Impact Bonds (Financial Times, December 2018)

Toniic, Partner of GIIN, Wants to Bring Impact Investing to China’s Wealthy (Financial Times, December 2018)

Signs That Institutional Investors May Be Reorienting Towards Sustainable Investing (Forbes, November 2018)

Impact Investing and Human Rights: Can we Talk? (Forbes, November 2018)

Japan’s Social Impact Bonds Attract Healthy Support (Financial Times, November 2018)

The Great DIB-ate: Measurement for Development Impact Bonds (Stanford Social Innovation Review, November 2018)

Big Issue Works With Fund Managers on Impact Investing Push (Financial Times, November 2018)

Monetary Mindfulness: An Introduction to Impact Investing (Hong Kong Tatler, November 2018)

Why Sustainable Investing Makes Good Business Sense (Clean Technica, November 2018)

Is Impact Investing Attempting To Solve Problems Using The Tools That Created Them? (Forbes, October 2018)

How Social Impact Bonds Can Confound Their Critics and Deliver Better Value For Government (Forbes, October 2018)

Impact Investing: The Billionaires Building Change (Forbes, October 2018)

To SIB or not to SIB: How Social Impact Bonds Could Help (Winnipeg Free Press, September 2018)

How Outcome-Based Impact Bonds are Attracting Global Investors to India (Business Standard, September 2018)

Impact Investing – Make Good Intentions Pay (Financial Times, September 2018)

How to Balance Financial, Emotional Rewards in Impact Investing (The Globe and Mail, September 2018)

Why Foundations Should Step Up Their Game in Impact Investing (Forbes, September 2018)

Sustainable Investing can Propel Long-Term Returns (Financial Times, September 2018)