This includes the governance, measurement systems, and financial vehicles necessary to demonstrate multi-sector return—such that investable capital can flow to communities to invest in flourishing.
The Marketplace blends best practices in advancing child flourishing outcomes with experience in creating successful, scalable investment markets.
Building on prior innovations to pay for outcomes—the IIF financing approach shifts upstream a portion of current health and social services spending. This frees investment for community-led collaborations to achieve flourishing together via stacking shared savings across multiple sectors to achieve sufficient dose for population level change and financial return to capital.
We are working with communities to co-design and adaptively apply the IIF approach, building on local assets and opportunities.
IIF changes financial incentives by rewarding successful investment in upstream flourishing, instead of today’s overspending in response to illness and social failure.
Our demonstration sites are mobilizing community leadership and capacity to institute formal and effective cross-sectoral collaboration that makes accessing outcomes-based finance possible.
Create a system that places a financial value on youth flourishing. Create a national market for “Flourishing Bonds.” Reduce government, business, and societal costs (e.g., health care, corrections) while improving youth opportunity, educational results, employee productivity, and overall community health.
Our intended outcome is the transformation of what is funded in the United States in health and social services to create robust, thriving individuals and communities. The welcome byproduct of creating opportunities for all of our youth is that government, employers, and society will spend a lot less in the future on chronic illness and reacting to social failure: acute and chronic medical care, courts and jails, and rehabilitative services.
