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In 2014, the James Irvine Foundation announced the California Pay for Success Initiative, a $5.6M time-limited effort to explore PFS in California. Managed by the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), the Initiative held an explicit goal of launching two PFS contracts in the state. Irvine and NFF selected both local government agencies and nonprofits that were interested in launching PFS projects, and provided access to technical assistance and a learning cohort of other grantees. For over three years, LFA served as an evaluation and learning partner to the Irvine Foundation on the CA PFS Initiative. Early on, we used a developmental evaluation approach to provide the Irvine Foundation with rapid feedback on how the initiative supported projects and project leaders. We learned that the project leaders were deeply appreciative of the leader cohort created by Irvine and the support and resources they received from their peers in the field. The learning community co-created by Irvine, NFF, and the grantees provided a venue for project leaders to share the successes and challenges of their work and seek peer problem solving support. http://learningforaction.com/lfa-blogpost/pay-for-success
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