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Ministry: Impact investing helps long-term unemployed find work

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A new project starting soon will offer services to help long-term unemployed jobseekers find work across the geographic area of several Employment and Economic Development Offices in Finland, announced the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in March 2019.

Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, brought the SIB model to Finland and has advised the project.

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Social Impact Bonds encourage targeted investments in well-being. Agreements are drafted so that all parties – the public sector, investors and service providers – benefit.

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Projects

SIB fonds

Social Impact Bonds encourage targeted investments in well-being. Agreements are drafted so that all parties – the public sector, investors and service providers – benefit.

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Topic

Impact investing

Impact investing helps promote well-being effectively and in a resource-wise way. It is a means of channelling private equity to projects whose aim is to achieve positive, measurable social benefit.

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Themes

New working life and a sustainable economy

Sitra’s New working life and sustainable economy theme analyses new phenomena in the world of work and the economy as well as offers solutions for coping with their effects. We help individuals, companies and other organisations prepare for changes in working life and we also want to provide them with tools for this purpose.

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