Three Design Principles for Listening to Communities
What makes your community listening sessions worthwhile and authentic? Do you learn something new? How do you create trusting, two-way relationships?
Updates from the Administrative Data Pilot: Weaving data for a holistic picture of program outcomes
In late 2016, Third Sector and Stanford’s Center for Poverty and Inequality (Stanford) were awarded a Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant under the Administrative Data Pilot (ADP) category. After a rigorous competition, three sub-grantees were chosen to receive two years of technical assistance from Third Sector and Stanford to develop administrative data infrastructure and outcomes contracting processes, culminating in September 2019. This blog post illuminates how these three projects are using quantitative and qualitative data to improve outcomes for participants in social service programs.
“Not everything that can be counted counts,
Race and Data: Co-creating Solutions
This is the third and final blog post in our three-part Race and Data series. In part one, we reflected on the potential dangers of over-relying on easily accessible data due to systemic racism, flawed collection, or biased analysis. In part two, we explored how thoughtful disaggregation can begin to mitigate those dangers. And finally, [...]