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and achieve better outcomes for all.

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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Insights from Third Sector

“Education is the one thing that can’t be taken from you…”“Education is the one thing that can’t be taken from you…”

  • Alysha Alani
Third Sector values deep and authentic relationships - amongst our staff as well as with our partners and clients. We had an opportunity to reflect on these relationships during our Spring 2023 Retreat where we focused as a team on “Why we do the work.” It was a privilege to welcome our long-time client, Dr. Cynthia Armendariz, Managing Director of the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative, to the retreat for a conversation with Alysha Alani, our Director, Economic Mobility, about her expertise in the college access and success field and her experience working with Third Sector over the last five years. We’ve captured some key insights from this “Fireside Chat” with Dr. Armendariz below.
Prioritizing Peers with Lived Experience to Address the Behavioral Health Workforce CrisisPrioritizing Peers with Lived Experience to Address the Behavioral Health Workforce Crisis

  • Nicole Kristy & Jessica Headley Ternes

As the demand for behavioral health treatment skyrockets alongside rising staff vacancy rates, behavioral health agencies are facing a true crisis in building enough capacity to meet the need. After an extensive literature review and working with more than a dozen behavioral health agencies, Third Sector believes one of the most strategic shifts agencies can make to confront this crisis is to invest heavily in roles for individuals with lived experience, known as peers. 

Rethinking Step Down: The Next Step in Transforming Mental Health ServicesRethinking Step Down: The Next Step in Transforming Mental Health Services

  • Zachary Kamin

At Third Sector, our mission is to transform our government agencies' ability to serve everyone in our communities, no matter their race, background, or circumstance. One of the most exciting and challenging things about this work is how trying to solve one set of problems reveals some other challenges we might not have understood in the same way. This is particularly true in the work we've been doing over the last five years in California to transform how nine counties in the state are serving and supporting tens of thousands of people with the most severe mental health challenges.

Five Takeaways on Using Human Centered Design to Improve Service DeliveryFive Takeaways on Using Human Centered Design to Improve Service Delivery

  • by T. Peake
  • June 7, 2021

Through working with the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) in GA and the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) in KY in the Southeast Cohort on Young Parents and Families, Third Sector has identified five major takeaways for how to establish a human-centered approach to service delivery by centering a population’s long-term economic mobility outcomes. 

Colorado and Ohio Departments of Higher Education Make Strides in Collaborative Efforts to Improve Student Success OutcomesColorado and Ohio Departments of Higher Education Make Strides in Collaborative Efforts to Improve Student Success Outcomes

  • by S. Walton
  • April 6, 2021

Over the last two years, the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) and the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) have worked alongside Third Sector to develop projects that finance evidence-based services to improve student outcomes to and through college. Collectively, these efforts are known as the Partnerships to Achieve Student Success (PASS) initiative and have been philanthropically supported by the ECMC Foundation and the Kresge Foundation.

How to Design An Outcomes Focused Federal GovernmentHow to Design An Outcomes Focused Federal Government

  • by T. Pennell & J. Croan
  • March 24, 2021

When state and local government agencies have the necessary knowledge, resources and support to change the way they design, deliver and assess human services, people served by public systems measurably improve their lives.

New Partnerships to Stem COVID Learning Loss: School districts and tutoring providers explore outcomes-based contracting in K-12 math educationNew Partnerships to Stem COVID Learning Loss: School districts and tutoring providers explore outcomes-based contracting in K-12 math education

  • by S. Glover; E. Chang; H. Kay Howard
  • February 1, 2021

Third Sector and the Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) collaborated to lead an Outcomes-Based Contracting (OBC) Summit, a four-workshop virtual series exploring outcomes contracting in K-12 math instruction.

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