Register now for 12/14 webinar on new Administrative Data Pilot competition

The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI) and Third Sector Capital Partners invite interested local governments in California, Oregon, and Washington state to apply for services under a federal Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Administrative Data Pilot (ADP) grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service.

At least three local governments conducting outcomes-oriented projects focused on economic opportunity will be selected to receive services under the program. Selected applicants will receive ongoing assistance in linking federal data (U.S. Census, IRS tax data, etc.) with local/state datasets, and technical assistance designed to improve their ability to use data to evaluate program operations and improve decision-making. Local government agencies participating in the SIF Administrative Data Pilot will expand their capacity to access datasets outside of their communities, analyze data to gain actionable insights made possible only by accessing data from state and federal sources, and deploy this knowledge to improve program best-practices and evidence over time. Read more about the SIF ADP on Third Sector’s website here.

Interested city and county governments and other stakeholders are invited to attend an informational webinar scheduled for Wednesday, December 14th at 11:30 AM PST, in advance of the release of the formal application on January 9th.

The webinar will give participants an overview of the Administrative Data Pilot opportunity, including: who is eligible to apply, the types of projects suitable for services, and key dates and milestones for the project, as well as allow participants to ask questions of staff from Third Sector and Stanford. The webinar will be recorded and made available to all parties and posted on the Third Sector website.

Please click here to register for the December 14th webinar and be included on a mailing list for this grant. Applicants may also direct their questions to SIFcompetition@thirdsectorcap.org.

We welcome you sharing this email with members of your network who may be interested in learning more about the competition.

The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is a nonpartisan research center dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what’s driving those trends, and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality. The Center, a program of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, supports research by new and established scholars, trains the next generation of scholars and policy analysts, and disseminates the very best research on poverty and inequality. For more information, visit inequality.stanford.edu.
Third Sector Capital Partners leads governments, high-performing nonprofits, and private funders in building evidence-based initiatives that address society’s most persistent challenges. As experts in innovative public-private contracting and financing strategies, Third Sector is an architect and builder of the nation’s most promising Pay for Success projects including those in Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Santa Clara County, California. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Boston and San Francisco, Third Sector is supported through philanthropic and government sources, including a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fund.
The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that engages millions of Americans in service through its AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Volunteer Generation Fund programs, and leads the President's national call to service initiative, United We Serve. Created in 2009, the SIF has grown into nearly a $1 billion social impact incubator within the federal government, creating more than 450 public-private partnerships that deliver high-impact, community-based solutions that work. The SIF empowers organizations to identify and support sustainable solutions that are already making a significant impact in transforming communities. For more information, visit nationalservice.gov.