Traverse are trusted advisors, helping service providers and commissioners understand and engage with Social Investment or Social Impact Investment. These forms of financing - normally targeting charities, social enterprises and socially minded businesses - are increasingly relevant in today's economic context as social challenges have mounted with public spending and grant funding coming under growing pressure.
We are recognised experts in helping service providers and commissioners consider whether Social Investment is appropriate and adds value. As independent advisors, we bring together commissioners, service providers and social investors to design and implement new ways of funding and delivery through new models of partnership. To meet the considerable challenges posed by demographic change and spending constraints, we help create the space to experiment and innovate, and to support scaling up solutions that work.
Our work
We helped LGBT+ Consortium develop a sector-wide outcomes framework for organisations to use as a reference point to demonstrate their impact. Being able to evidence outcomes is a key step in engaging with social investment. We then helped them segment their membership, supporting those that may most benefit from social investment.
We supported the Connect Fund to plug gaps in the social investment market infrastructure, to make it more relevant to the needs of charities and social enterprises. For example, we helped Disability Rights UK better understand Disabled People’s Organisations’ understanding of, and engage with, social investment.
We are experts in supporting the design and execution of Social Impact Bonds (SIB) and Outcomes Funds. For example, we helped develop the first SIB in the Gulf region; supported the Development Bank of Japan to invest in a social impact fund; and supported the £80million Life Chances Fund which spawned 30 SIBs.
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If impact bonds are the answer, what is the question? Watch Chih Hoong Sin chairing a debate involving experts from Europe, Asia and Russia at the Government Outcomes Lab Annual Conference 2020
Top tips for developing Social Impact Bonds
What are the main challenges that Social Impact Bond commissioners and providers face?
Developing an Outcomes Fund for the Greater China region
Useful learning resources and tools
COVID-19 impact on outcomes contracts
Measuring the impact of your outcomes-based project
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Traversing the divide between outcomes-based commissioning and Social Impact Bonds
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Social Impact Bonds and their implications for service providers
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Japan highlights innovative Social Impact Bond model for Social Impact Bond
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