Social Solutions Global, Inc. Congratulates W.E. Upjohn Institute and Florida Department of Economic Opportunity on Receiving Workforce Innovation Fund Grant Awards
BALTIMORE, Oct. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Social Solutions Global, Inc., the leading provider of performance management software for human services agencies, congratulates W.E. Upjohn Institute and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity on receiving grant awards from the Workforce Innovation Fund.
The grant awards will be used to help the recipients deliver services more efficiently, facilitate cooperation across federal and state workforce programs and funding streams, and expand partnerships with specific employers or industry sectors to develop programs that reflect current and future skill needs. Florida DEO and the Upjohn Institute are two of 11 state workforce agencies and local workforce investment boards across nine states that received a total of $50.7 million in grant awards in the second round of competitions under the Workforce Innovation Fund.
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity will be utilizing the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) grant to support the development of a performance-based funding program that rewards the state's regional workforce boards for measurable improvements and excellence in service to job seekers and businesses. Their new performance funding program will harness state-of-the-art technology as well as real-time data to propel their system to even stronger outcomes as they continue to promote excellence and innovative solutions.
"We congratulate the W.E. Upjohn Institute and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity on their awards from the Workforce Innovation Fund. Their receipt of these awards is a testament to the great work that they are doing and their commitment to providing efficient and effective workforce services," said Scott Johnson, CEO of Social Solutions. "Social Solutions supports the shift from performance reporting to performance management in these two workforce organizations, and across all of its customers providing high-quality human and social services programs."
Upjohn Institute is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, independent research organization that is devoted to investigating the causes and effects of unemployment, in order to identify feasible methods that will decrease unemployment.Upjohn uses Social Solutions' Efforts to Outcomes (ETO®) software to support the Learning Network of Greater Kalamazoo, a collaboration of organizations focusing on providing an education continuum from birth to career.
Social Solutions Global, Inc., creators of Efforts to Outcomes (ETO®) software, equips over 16,000 programs with web-based data-tracking and outcomes-oriented case management tools to improve results, simplify reporting requirements and improve efficiencies in delivering services across agencies and funding streams. Unlike traditional CRM and Case Management tools, ETO software was designed to help agencies improve outcomes by identifying and scaling effective programs. The ETO platform is flexible enough to be uniquely configured based on service population and evidence-based practices models, without the need for custom development to make changes to the software as your organization continues to evolve.
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