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Third Sector joins teams in Massachusetts and Texas to implement workforce programs through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Good Job Challenge
Third Sector is excited to join two multi-sector teams in Texas and Massachusetts to implement transformative workforce programs that will secure good jobs for more than 1,600 people.
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Cuyahoga County Council Approves National Guard PFS Contract
Third Sector has been working with the Ohio Department of Higher Education and Cuyahoga County's Department of Health and Human Services to improve enrollment, persistence, and completion outcomes for Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program recipients.
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Better Outcomes
Learn how Third Sector is fundamentally changing the way funding serves people.
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What is 988?
The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 was signed into law on October 17, 2020 requiring that all State telecommunications services implement 988 for mental health emergencies, including suicide. Beginning in July 2022, callers across the country that dial ‘988’ will be connected to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline (the Lifeline) or to a local crisis response center. Third Sector partnered with Washington State to take this mandate a step forward, prioritizing equity.
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Innovative Approaches to Deploying Federal Childcare Relief Funding
Third Sector has partnered with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood and Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care to develop a funding model for federal relief funds with intentional incentives for advancing equity and quality.
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Multi-County California Learning Community for Outcomes-Focused Government
Third Sector is leading a cohort of CA counties to embed continuous improvement into their intensive behavioral health programs to advance outcomes.
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How One Nonprofit is Helping Government Focus on Outcomes
Read the transcript of Third Sector CEO Caroline Whistler's conversation with Daniel Stid, Program Director, U.S. Democracy, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as they discuss Third Sector's evolution to focus on transforming public systems and how we specifically work to impact how public policies are administered and public funds deployed to advance equitable outcomes.
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Transforming public systems
to advance improved and equitable outcomes
Throughout the United States, we collaborate deeply with communities to re-write how they partner with government to fund social services, re-aligning vast amounts of public resources to move the needle on social problems.
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Designing an Outcomes-Focused Federal Government
Whether housing, food assistance, workforce development, health, education or any number of other services, the Federal government make progress on its agenda to build back better our health, economy, and safety net systems while addressing systemic racism IF it embraces and, more importantly, disseminates to state and local levels, this paradigm shift towards outcomes focused government (OFG).
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