NYAPRS Note: See below for an opportunity to join CSH in an exciting Supportive Housing initiative, by submitting an RFP to provide services! Nonprofits, state and local governments are invited to apply.

CSH Open Competition

Advances Supportive Housing

Pay for Success Initiatives

Winners Receive Technical Assistance – Become Part of White House Initiative

CSH Pay for Success RFP Application Due Feb 6

For more information: pfs@csh.org

Visit our Website: www.csh.org/pfs

CSH invites state, county and local governments, and 501(c)3 nonprofits to join us in becoming catalysts for the creation of supportive housing through Pay for Success, an innovative contracting and financing model.

At a regional summit hosted today by the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, CSH unveiled a national competition to select Sub-Recipients interested in receiving intensive technical assistance to determine the feasibility of Pay for Success initiatives focused on supportive housing and vulnerable populations.

CSH is a grantee of the inaugural Pay for Success program of the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fund.

With over two decades of experience as the only nonprofit intermediary dedicated to advancing supportive housing, CSH is uniquely qualified and positioned to provide technical assistance on the use of Pay for Success to create supportive housing.

RFP Kick-Off Webinar December 10th

CSH will offer a webinar on Pay for Success and our RFP Application Process on December 10 2014 at 1pm EST to explain our goals and how we intend to work with Sub-Recipients to maximize innovative Pay for Success financing to bring supportive housing to scale! Register for our webinar.

Our Partners

Selected Sub-Recipients will receive technical assistance from CSH as well as our collaborating partners, the Center for Health Care Strategies and Third Sector Capital Partners.

CSH also is excited to announce that we have developed a collaboration with the Harvard Kennedy School Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab (HKS SIB Lab) to provide a cohort-based model of technical assistance for selected Sub-Recipients interested in responding to the federal Olmstead mandate by using Pay for Success to provide a community-based housing alternative to institutionalization for persons with disabilities. Through this cohort model, awardees will receive government-focused expertise on project development, evaluation design, and procurement from the HKS SIB Lab and issue-specific expertise from CSH and its partners in the areas of Medicaid funding of institutional and community-based services, and the creation and operation of high-quality supportive housing that meets the needs of the identified target population. See our RFP for more details.

Applications due February 6, 2015.

CSH will select 4-6 Sub-Recipients in this first round. Selected applicants will receive grants and services valued at an estimated $100,000 to $150,000. Sub-Recipients will also receive a complimentary membership to CSH’s Training center, which includes resources, webinars, and e-classes designed to support the creation of quality supportive housing.

Contact pfs@csh.orgwith any questions related to Pay for Success and our RFP.

Come make a difference with us!

More about CSH, the Social Innovation Fund & Pay for Success

On October 1, 2014, the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fundannounced that CSH received $750,000 in investments, the result of a highly competitive open, national grant competition.

The investment aims to advance and evaluate emerging models that align payment for social services and housing (supportive housing) with verified social outcomes, also known as Pay for Success.

The Social Innovation Fund and Pay for Success are key White House initiatives that combine public and private resources to grow the impact of innovative, community-based solutions that have compelling evidence of improving the lives of people in low-income communities throughout the United States.

CSHhas led the supportive housing movement for over 20 years, demonstrating its potential to improve the lives of very vulnerable individuals and families. CSH has earned a sterling reputation as a highly effective, financially stable organization, with strong partnerships across government, community organizations, and foundations, and financial institutions.

CSHis advancing innovative solutions that use housing as a platform for services to improve lives, maximize public resources, and build healthy communities. We are working to assure that housing solutions are accessible to more people in more places.

For more information, contact pfs@csh.org and visit our Website at www.csh.org/pfs