50%
Reduction in reporting time
Staff time returned to service delivery and program analysis.
Case 07
How a Homeless Services Organization Cut Reporting Time by 50%
Funder and program reporting rebuilt on a governed data foundation, halving reporting time and returning capacity to service delivery.
- Client
- A homeless services organization
- Industry
- Nonprofit & Social Impact
- Decision domain
- Program performance and funder reporting
- Capabilities
- Data · Decision Intelligence
Measured outcomes
What changed.
The situation
Where the work started.
A homeless services organization reported to multiple funders, each with its own definitions, formats and cadence.
Reporting was assembled manually by staff whose time was needed for service delivery.
Decision at stakeHow program capacity and funding are directed, and how performance is demonstrated to funders.
What prevented the decision
The constraints that had to be removed.
- Program data spread across intake, case management and finance systems.
- Each funder report was rebuilt from scratch every period.
- Little time left to analyze performance once reporting was complete.
What SMPLCTY delivered
The system we built.
- Governed program data foundation
- Intake, case management and funding data integrated with consistent definitions.
- Automated funder reporting
- Recurring funder reports generated from the governed source rather than assembled by hand.
- Program performance view
- A view leadership uses to see service delivery and outcomes between reporting cycles.
Implementation
- 01Mapped each funder's requirements to a single internal definition set.
- 02Built the data foundation and automated report generation.
- 03Trained program staff to run and extend the reporting themselves.
Applied here
Services and solutions behind this work.
Services
Data Foundations & GovernanceThe pipelines, models, definitions and governance required by the decisions you have prioritized — scoped to purpose, not to completeness.Decision Intelligence SystemsDecision products, not dashboards: the evidence, thresholds, ownership and workflow that make a recurring decision reliable.
Solutions
Operational Intelligence & AutomationException-driven operational decisions: detect the condition, route it to an owner, and automate the analytical work around it.Executive Performance & ImpactA trusted executive performance view: consistent definitions, honest signal, and a decision agenda attached to every material variance.
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