Project Overview
Third Sector, in partnership with Stanford’s Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), helped Santa Cruz County’s Human Services Department (HSD) to gain access to numerous administrative databases to better understand short- and long-term effects of the County’s subsidized employment program, funded through CalWORKs. Third Sector and CPI helped to deploy data insights to improve and embed outcomes in the contracts between HSD and the providers of workforce development services, building the outcomes-oriented contracting expertise that will assist in broader agency shifts.
Santa Cruz County’s HSD joined San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency and the Washington State Department of Early Learning in Third Sector and CPI’s Social Innovation Fund Administrative Data Pilot cohort, which will also include a Learning Community designed to facilitate cross-site collaboration and technical/process trainings around data analysis and deployment.
Economic Mobility
| Project Name | Scope | Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supporting Capacity Building for States to Develop High-Quality Climate and Infrastructure Career Pathways | State | AZ, MI, MN, NM, | Active |
| Third Sector is working with The Families and Workers Fund to support a cohort of four states – Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, and New Mexico – in designing workforce initiatives to build a pipeline of quality jobs in the climate and infrastructure sectors. Third Sector's support is part of the Fund’s Powering Climate and Infrastructure Careers Challenge. | |||
| Advancing Economic Mobility for MA DTA Participants | State | Closed | |