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Annie E. Casey Foundation: Using Efforts to Outcomes (ETO™) Software Since 2001

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is dedicated to meeting the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. By fostering public policies, human service reforms and community supports, through its Centers for Working Families, Family to Family initiative, and other programs, the foundation has established itself as a major philanthropic force in improving the lives of disadvantaged children and their families. Efforts to Outcomes (ETO™) software by Social Solutions provides Annie E. Casey Foundation with improved visibility into program quality and effectiveness, improved demonstrability of participant and family progress and social value, improved efficiency and expediency in generating reports, and improved ability to replicate programs on a national basis.

Because ETO software is a Web-based reporting system that captures information seamlessly as the staff works, Annie E. Casey Foundation’s grantees can spend more time on their primary mission of service.  Not only is reporting easier, it’s better;  Annie E. Casey Foundation can immediately identify who’s being served and quickly determine the impact those services are having. The foundation leverages this performance management software to recognize a higher level of accountability, to conserve resources and unify collective efforts, and to boost grantee capacity and impact.

Recognizing a higher level of accountability

With ETO software the foundation gains fast, secure access to timely and accurate information, so they can monitor the progress of the programs they fund. Using this performance management software empowers Annie E. Casey Foundation to measure program-specific efforts and relate them to the intended outcomes, so they can see what works and then strategically direct resources where they can do the greatest good.

Conserving resources and unifying collective efforts

ETO software compiles data from the various Annie E. Casey Foundation programs in mere minutes.  Because information capture is a function of the ETO software reporting tool, their grantees can provide hundreds of insightful reports, which Annie E. Casey Foundation can aggregate and analyze with a simple click of a mouse. For collaborative service models like the foundation’s Centers for Working Families, this ease of coordination is invaluable.

Boosting grantee capacity and impact

ETO software tracks service provider efforts and outcomes, and provides Annie E. Casey Foundation insight into participant progression and program impact. This powerful outcome-based data helps their supported agencies improve performance, efficiency, and capacity. ETO guides staff through the assessment process, so that even qualitative data like outcomes can be collected in a standardized and structured fashion, for analysis across a number of programs or sites. This is especially important for programs such as the Family to Family Initiative, which holds self-evaluation of practices and outcomes as a core strategy essential to meaningful impact.

About Social Solutions

Social Solutions is the leading provider of performance management software for human services, connecting efforts to outcomes, people to social services, and service providers and communities to funders.  The company’s ETO software goes beyond case management, enabling public, private, and nonprofit organizations, such as Harlem Children’s Zone®, Catholic Charities, Annie E. Casey Foundation, HUD, and cities such as Boston and Hartford to collaborate, save time, and improve quality and effectiveness.

ETO™ is a trademark of Social Solutions, Global, Inc. Harlem Children's Zone® and HCZ® are registered trademarks of HCZ, Inc.

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