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Sharing Risk, Rewarding Outcomes: The Environmental Impact Bond

What is an Environmental Impact Bond? An Environmental Impact Bond (EIB) is an innovative financing tool that uses a Pay for Success approach to provide up-front capital from private investors for environmental projects, either to pilot a new approach whose performance is viewed as uncertain or to scale up a solution that has been tested in a pilot program.

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Where will the money come from?

Health is increasingly recognized as the product of many social, economic, and environmental factors that extend far beyond the doctor’s office. This spring, two monumental policy updates now allow for greater flexibility and innovation to address these factors.

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Why we’re excited about bricks and boards

Quantified Ventures, with support from the U.S. Forest Service, has made a compelling case that, through application of the Pay for Success (PFS) financing model, we can scale an urban wood economy in Baltimore that identifies, quantifies, and then supports sustainable employment, reduced recidivism and waste, lowers crime rates, and improves health.

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Reflections on Efficiency: How can we make investing in environmental projects cheaper and easier?

Director Carolyn duPont writes about her presentation at the Conservation Finance Roundtable discussing our efforts to connect upstream agricultural producers with downstream municipalities seeking to reduce run-off at the source rather than paying for expensive downstream water treatment, as well as inspiring and innovative ideas shared by others.

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An Interview with Nicole Truhe: PFS, SIPPRA, and the Road Ahead

Nicole Truhe is the Government Affairs Director at America Forward, New Profit’s bipartisan policy initiative. She’s been one of the country’s driving forces behind a sustained effort to pass Federal legislation to further enable Pay For Success.

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It’s Time to Update our Definition of Community Development

After attending the National Interagency Reinvestment Conference last month in Miami, Michael Gaughan (Executive Director, Vermont Municipal Bond Bank) and Eric Letsinger (CEO, Quantified Ventures) argue that aligning CRA requirements with our country's infrastructure needs can unlock significant capital for much-needed projects.

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