The Institute for Child Success and Ferebee Lane are pleased to release Small Steps, which premiered this evening in Greenville, SC. This short documentary film explores the experiences of young mothers with young children and opportunities for design. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHLC1tvSC5Y The…
The Board of Directors of the Institute for Child Success, a research and policy organization working to create a culture that facilitates and fosters the success of all children, has elected Darnell McPherson of Darlington County and Liz Winer of Charlotte…
On October 1, the Social Innovation Fund invested more than $780,000 in the Institute for Child Success (ICS) to advance early childhood outcomes through Pay for Success (PFS) financing. Pay for Success is a financing model that can help scale up effective interventions while saving governments money. While PFS is an exciting model with a range of benefits, it is also technically difficult to deploy and few organizations in the early childhood community have developed the required expertise. The Social Innovation Fund’s investment, along with matching funds from ReadyNation, United Way of Greenville County, and Greenville Health System, will fuel an initiative to build that expertise and capacity for PFS within the early childhood community.
This initiative will deploy three chief strategies to build capacity in the early childhood community for PFS financing: technical assistance, convening, and information sharing.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 1, 2014) – The Corporation for National and Community Service’s (CNCS) Social Innovation Fund (SIF) today announced that the Institute for Child Success (ICS) has been awarded more than $780,000 through a highly competitive open grant competition. Announced at an event co-hosted by the U.S. National Advisory Board on Impact Investing, SIF, and the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, the investment aims to advance and evaluate emerging funding models that align payment for services with verified outcomes, an approach known as Pay for Success (PFS).
ICS applied for this investment as a national leader in PFS finance for early childhood programs. The grant will allow ICS to help jurisdictions from across the United States to use PFS financing to improve outcomes for young children and their families. In 2014, ICS organized the first national conference on PFS for early childhood with the business organization ReadyNation. ICS also conducted a 9-month PFS feasibility study on the Nurse-Family Partnership, which enabled South Carolina to move smoothly into PFS transaction structuring and should result in the investment of significant new dollars for services to nearly 4,000 families in need.
We are excited to hear that one of our founding and fueling partners - the United Way of Greenville County - will receive a $3 million grant from the Social Innovation Fund. From the announcement: United Way of Greenville County, Middle…
We are thrilled to announce that Bill Brown and Matt Ferebee have both been named as Senior Fellows. Bill Brown, Ph.D., Senior Fellow Dr. William "Bill" Brown joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina in 1995 and is…
Lauren Scoggins joins ICS as Director of Development today. Before entering professional fundraising, Lauren earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Presbyterian College. Following graduation, Lauren worked as a Deputy Field Coordinator for the SC House Democratic Caucus, and…
ICS is pleased to announce that Emily Carroll joined the Institute for Child Success as Policy Counsel today. Originally from Sandusky, Ohio, Emily earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowling Green State University and her Master of Arts degree from…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GREENVILLE, S.C. (July 29, 2014) – A survey of South Carolina voters commissioned by the Institute for Child Success (ICS) reveals that a majority (53%) of South Carolina voters continue to believe that most South Carolina children…
Over the last couple of days, the South Carolina General Assembly completed work on two important pieces of legislation affecting our state’s youngest children. First, the Read to Succeed bill acted to expand the availability of high quality, full-day kindergarten…