Income Share Agreements (ISAs), also known as Success Share Agreements, are innovative financing instruments that have the potential to make postsecondary education and skills training more affordable, accessible and accountable to student outcomes, and ultimately drive racial, gender, and economic equity.
In Autodesk Foundation’s Work & Prosperity portfolio, upskilling & workforce development social enterprises are leveraging ISAs to both make their programs more accessible to marginalized learners and enable an outcomes-oriented impact measurement and management practice. Still, ISAs are not inherently learner-centered and equitable, and these instruments remain widely debated and the regulatory environment nascent.
