Community Action Agencies

Every program a family touches on one record, measured with the Self-Sufficiency Matrix, and reportable without a month of spreadsheet work.

Community action agency staff assisting a family

Key Features

The Self-Sufficiency Matrix, scored and banded by domain

One household record across every program you run

Goals in housing, employment, health, education and life skills

A public application on your own website, English or Spanish

Reassessment at intake, 30, 90, 180 days, annually and at exit

In-kind value on assistance issued, rolled up for reporting

Transfer an enrollment between your partner agencies

Build the reports your funders require, then re-run them

How It Works

Measure self-sufficiency the way your sector does

The Self-Sufficiency Matrix comes with the platform as a scored assessment, banded by domain, so the instrument your outcomes are built on is there on day one. Re-run it on a schedule and each result is compared with the last, which turns a family's movement across domains into something you can show rather than assume.

One family, not one file per program

A household that touches Head Start, weatherization, utility assistance and employment services is one record here, not four. Households keep the family together with a head of household, and enrollments in several programs sit side by side with goals across housing, employment, health, education and life skills. Where a family moves to a partner agency, the enrollment can transfer with them.

Take the application before they reach the office

Publish your intake as a form on your own website — in English or Spanish, no login and no app — where a family can enter details, complete a screening survey, upload documents and sign. It arrives ready to work. What you then issue carries an in-kind value and a repeat limit, so the dollar figure your funders ask for accumulates on its own, and staff see a duplicate request before the assistance goes out.

Reporting your funders will accept

You build your reports here: pick the fields, set the filters, group and export, and re-run the same definition each period. That covers the outcome reporting your CSBG contract requires, shaped to the way your agency reports, not a fixed template somebody else designed. Define it once and every period after that is a re-run, not a rebuild.

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