Toby Eccles: Invest in social change
Toby Eccles: Investimento em mudança social
Toby Eccles has created a radical financial instrument that helps private investors contribute to solving thorny public problems. Full bio
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or something like that,
com crianças ou algo do género,
para a mudança social,
do you think they've been in prison?
que eles estiveram na prisão?
existem os custos de tribunal,
estamos a gastar dinheiro
Qual é o valor disso?
com o valor social.
would be completely compelling.
recompensador.
é simplesmente isto:
podem tentar coisas novas
caso não tenha funcionado,
saírem da prisão
and putting them back in again,
para voltar a colocá-los na prisão,
o seu dinheiro de volta,
com 3000 transgressores
pelo sistema judicial,
of 10-percent reduction,
de redução de 10%,
um novo programa
essa comunidade de investidores
ganham confiança no produto.
connects them to employment,
dá-lhes a conhecer oportunidades de emprego,
doença mental,
funcionam lindamente
do Ensino Secundário aos 16 anos,
dos transgressores em prisão
do acolhimento
a Câmara Municipal do Condado de Essex
na Grã-Bretanha,
para apoiar esta ideia.
as pessoas têm mesmo de testar
that one's dealing with.
com a qual está a lidar.
that we're working with
com as quais estamos a trabalhar
com os diferentes prisioneiros,
they get re-arrested or not.
quer sejam novamente detidos ou não.
o programa, em conformidade.
of that are very aware of it
estão muito conscientes disso
exactly how you spend it.
com exatidão como se gasta o dinheiro.
para se adaptarem ao programa.
debate going on very often:
que se levanta com muita frequência:
melhoria do setor social,
milhões de pessoas,
investir em mudança social.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Toby Eccles - Social investment visionaryToby Eccles has created a radical financial instrument that helps private investors contribute to solving thorny public problems.
Why you should listen
All too often, an ex-inmate walks out of prison with the exact same problems he or she walked in with: lack of skills, lack of support, no job. And they end up re-offending and back in jail. It's an expensive problem to fix, but it's a much more expensive one to ignore. A director at Social Finance in London, Toby Eccles explores the arbitrage between those two options.
In 2010, his pioneering Social Impact Bond allowed private investors to support a UK program targeting ex-prisoners who served short sentences (the limited government funding only goes to ex-inmates who served long terms). The £5m scheme, funded by 17 investors, supports training and support for 1,000 ex-inmates; if they re-offend less than a control group, the government will pay investors back, plus interest, through the savings accrued by achieving the program's targets.
More such bonds are now being tried across the world, including in New York City and Massachusetts (both addressing recidivism), and extended to new fields such as development. Eccles founded Social Finance in 2007, and he oversees all of the firm's social impact bond work, where, he says: "We are incentivised to work with the complicated and with those willing to change." "We are incentivised to work with the complicated and with those willing to change."
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