Root Cause and Social Solutions Partner to Accelerate Social Impact through Performance Data and Analysis

BALTIMORE and BOSTON, Aug. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Root Cause, a nonprofit research and consulting firm, and Social Solutions, the leading provider of performance management software for human and social services organizations, have formed a partnership to advance the field of non-profit performance management to increase social impact. The partnership will allow both organizations to leverage each other's capacities to provide comprehensive data collection, analysis and consultation to a wide variety of nonprofits nationwide.

"Both Root Cause and Social Solutions work to accelerate non-profit performance and deepen social impact, so this partnership was a natural fit," said Root Cause CEO Andrew Wolk. "It also reaffirms Root Cause's commitment to using data to improve organizational performance and redefine what is considered 'social progress.'"

Over the past 13 years, Social Solutions' ETO software has enabled nonprofits, foundations and government agencies to measure incremental progress of their programs' participants, understand their programs' effectiveness, and demonstrate impact to funders, partners and other stakeholders.

"By partnering with Root Cause, we will have the opportunity to reach an even broader range of organizations that are doing good work but need help demonstrating their impact," said Social Solutions CEO Steve Butz.

Root Cause has worked with more than 200 clients over the past 10 years and will be integrating that knowledge into the ETO platform to provide nonprofits with the ability to assess and continuously improve their organizational and program performance. The partnership will begin by working with nonprofit members of the Root Cause Peer Performance Exchange (PPE) and the Leadership Sustainability Institute for Black Male Achievement (LSI), co-led by Root Cause and PolicyLink.

About Root Cause
Root Cause is a Boston-based provider of high-impact nonprofit research and consulting services. Over the past 10 years, Root Cause worked with more than 200 nonprofit, public and philanthropic institutions to improve their performance in order to create enduring social change. For more information, please visit http://www.rootcause.org.

About Social Solutions
Baltimore-based 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 Efforts to Outcomes software goes beyond case management, and enables public, private, and nonprofit organizations to collaborate, save time, and improve service quality and effectiveness. Thousands of service providers, collaboratives, funders, evaluators, and government organizations use ETO software as they work with over 12 million participants each day. For more information, visit http://www.socialsolutions.com/.

Contacts:
Brianne Miers, Root Cause
617-378-2685
[email protected]

Chris Frascella, Social Solutions
443-460-3460
[email protected]

SOURCE Social Solutions