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The Continuum of Care (CoC) Agenda is a tool that supports or hinders progress being made by boards and workgroups seeking to reduce homelessness.  Poorly designed agenda’s affect a group’s ability…

Point in Time (PIT) “reveals” are beginning to surface. Over the years I’ve heard various discussions surrounding the value of local counts. In my experience, one of the biggest difficulties…

Recently I was discussing the importance of how performance outcomes are ultimately designed in software. My colleague commented, “And then there are all the problems with data quality.” I replied,…

Have you been in meetings where you were presented reports that later you wondered how they related to the task at hand? The purpose of a review is as important as…

Recently, a FaceBook friend posted a definition of “Big Hairy Audacious Goals” (BHAGs). It read something like this, “The power of a BHAG is that it gets you out of…

Recently, I’ve heard frustrations over the way Coordinated Entry Systems (CES) operate, but when I inquire in regards to “what do your reports say?” I usually get blank stares. Purely…

A guiding principal our group established right at the beginning was that we would work to support a nonprofit’s culture around data right alongside our implementation services.  Our collective experience…

We can do data better! When I was hired by the Sonoma County Community Development Commission in 2011, my first assignment was to “straighten out” the HMIS.  No problem I said…