Our Approach
As a society, we face problems too large and complex to address with grant capital alone. Impact investments complement philanthropy and government spending to scale promising solutions for change.
Social Finance develops and manages innovative, impact-first investment products that generate positive outcomes for people and communities. Since our founding in 2011, we have mobilized more than $400 million designed to improve lives through investments in workforce and economic mobility, health, and housing.
Our Services
As a registered investment advisor, we design, launch, and manage impact-first investments—investments designed to generate positive outcomes for people and communities.
We partner with individuals, family offices, and foundations to amplify their impact by directing more capital to toward positive social and environmental outcomes. We offer:
- Asset Management: We build unique products like the Impact First Fund, the investment program funded by the Google Career Certificates Fund, the UP Fund, the Dreamers Graduate Loan Fund, and place-based Pay It Forward Funds.
- Impact Investment Advisory Services: We provide advice to investors on how to build impact investing portfolios.
Products
Career Impact Bonds
The Career Impact Bond is a holistic model for financing education and training to help unemployed and underemployed people participate in the modern economy.
Career Impact Bonds
Impact Investing Advisory Services
We build and manage impact-first investment solutions that enable individuals (including donor-advised fund account holders), family offices, and foundations to channel philanthropic capital toward measurable impact for people and communities.
Pay It Forward Funds
We work with state and local governments and workforce funders across the country to create recycling funds of job training dollars.
Pay It Forward Funds
Talent Finance
We design custom talent finance strategies to help corporations solve their business and talent needs.
Corporate Talent Finance
Social Finance Impact First Fund
We provide philanthropic capital investors with an easy, cost effective, one-stop solution to pursue impact-first investments that positively impact people and the planet.
Social Finance Impact First Fund
Featured Work
Google Career Certificates Fund
$1B
Targeted wage gains for 20,000+ learners through a $100 million fund
Dreamers Graduate Loan Program
$100M
Target fund size to help Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) college scholarship recipients pay for graduate school
New Jersey Pay It Forward Program
$14.8M
Revolving workforce fund to upskill residents and fill critical job openings
Social Finance is measuring and scaling what works. We need to move toward evidence-based funding, and they’re supporting programs that show it can be done.Jim Shelton
Chief Investment Officer, Blue Meridian Partners
Social Finance creates innovative investments and partnerships that bring together the private sector, government and civil society to drive positive impact. We’re proud to support their work to build a more inclusive, equitable capitalism.Chris Jurgens
Senior Director, Reimagining Capitalism, Omidyar Network
Thanks to Social Finance, thousands of Dreamer college graduates will have a chance to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, and much more.Donald Graham
Chairman of the Board, Graham Holdings Company
Partnering with Social Finance has allowed us to expand the tools we can offer our donors to help them amplify their impact, achieve their philanthropic goals, and contribute to equitable recovery efforts.Nicole Taylor
President and CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation