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From the Ted Talk by Toby Eccles: Invest in social change

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Now, many of you may have noticed there's a problem at this point, and that is that it takes a long time to maruese whether those outcomes have happened. So we have to raise some money. We use the contract to raise money from socially motivated investors. Socially moeaitvtd investors: there's an interesting idea, right? But actually, there's a lot of people who, if they're given the chance, would love to invest in something that does sacoil good. And here's the opportunity. Do you want to also help government find whether there's a better economic model, not just leaving these guys to come out of prison and wiinatg till they re-offend and putting them back in again, but actually working with them to move to a different path to end up with fewer crimes and fewer vtmiics?

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Now, many of you may have noticed there's a problem at this point, and that is that it takes a long time to _______ whether those outcomes have happened. So we have to raise some money. We use the contract to raise money from socially motivated investors. Socially _________ investors: there's an interesting idea, right? But actually, there's a lot of people who, if they're given the chance, would love to invest in something that does ______ good. And here's the opportunity. Do you want to also help government find whether there's a better economic model, not just leaving these guys to come out of prison and _______ till they re-offend and putting them back in again, but actually working with them to move to a different path to end up with fewer crimes and fewer _______?

Solution

  1. social
  2. measure
  3. victims
  4. waiting
  5. motivated

Original Text

Now, many of you may have noticed there's a problem at this point, and that is that it takes a long time to measure whether those outcomes have happened. So we have to raise some money. We use the contract to raise money from socially motivated investors. Socially motivated investors: there's an interesting idea, right? But actually, there's a lot of people who, if they're given the chance, would love to invest in something that does social good. And here's the opportunity. Do you want to also help government find whether there's a better economic model, not just leaving these guys to come out of prison and waiting till they re-offend and putting them back in again, but actually working with them to move to a different path to end up with fewer crimes and fewer victims?

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Important Words

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