Incentives – Building Better Programs https://www.buildingbetterprograms.org Resources for Improving TANF and Related Work Programs Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:30:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Prize Savings Incentive Program https://www.buildingbetterprograms.org/2017/01/25/prize-savings-incentive-program/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:30:07 +0000 http://www.buildingbetterprograms.org/?p=1466 Read more]]> Commonwealth, an Annie E. Casey Foundation grantee, in partnership with Walmart and Green Dot, has launched “Prize Savings”, a Prize-Linked Savings (PLS) incentive program, available to Walmart MoneyCard holders. This program, launched to help financially-vulnerable Americans, incentivizes cardholders to save by entering them in a monthly sweepstakes that awards  cash prizes when they elect to save money from their account using the MoneyCard Vault. Since launching Prize Savings in August 2016, use of the MoneyCard Vault has increased by more than 130%. Read more about this program here.

]]> Using Incentives in Human Services: Field Guide, Literature Review, and Webinar https://www.buildingbetterprograms.org/2016/12/14/using-incentives-in-human-services-field-guide-literature-review-and-webinar/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:58:58 +0000 http://www.buildingbetterprograms.org/?p=1447 Read more]]> Engagement and persistence are two common issues in human service programs which incentives may help to address. The material on this page includes an extensive literature review on incentive use, a field guide for programs to use when designing incentives for their participants, a webinar that reviews the background information on how to understand costs and benefits when implementing incentives, and the corresponding presentation slides (in PDF format).

While the literature review gives background information on how incentives are used in multiple domains, the field guide offers specific guidance to programs and tools to help them design programs using incentives.

 

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