Innovative Finance for Translational Research (IFTR)

Innovative Finance for Translational Research (IFTR)

Faculty and researchers at the University of Utah are developing innovative interventions that have the potential to have a positive social impact when translated into a community setting, but many lack the access of capital to make this transition. The Sorenson...
Policy Priorities to Unlock Catalytic Capital

Policy Priorities to Unlock Catalytic Capital

Catalytic capital is a powerful tool in making transformative change. It can mitigate risk and seed new ideas for impact investments that seek to achieve positive social and economic outcomes in addition to financial return. While the impact investing market has grown...
Institute for Child Success SIPPRA

Institute for Child Success SIPPRA

The Institute for Child Success (ICS) engaged the Sorenson Impact Center to assist them in project development, outcome selection and payment determination, economic and financial modeling and structuring, and in preparing materials for an application to the federal...
MAPS Project

MAPS Project

Data science is a primary driver of measuring, articulating, and expanding social impact success at a local and national level. The Sorenson Impact Center is partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to chart the features of higher education and what they...