Having a positive impact on society requires more than hard work and good intentions. It requires a strategic approach that connects an organization's mission to the daily work of its staff members and the expectations of its funders and supporters. We call the process of tracking efforts and outcomes, and of relating those outcomes to organizational goals (such as participant self sufficiency), performance management.
Our company’s sole purpose is to support human service organizations no matter where they are to relate their efforts to outcomes in order to manage their effectiveness, giving them the tools to improve service delivery to the clients and community they serve. That said, with increasing interest from the Canadian market, Social Solutions made a significant investment in establishing servers at SunGard’s state of the art facilities in Mississauga, Ontario. As a result of this partnership Social Solution’s Canadian clients now receive the benefit of a world class managed data center infrastructure with full featured physical security measures.
Our company also committed significant resources in the form of developer time to localize aspects of ETO to meet the needs of the Canadian market to establish ETO as a viable product there. Canadian organizations now represent more than 8% of our client base as of the first quarter of 2011. From Covenant House Vancouver to Alberta Housing and Urban Affairs to the YWCA of Hamilton, Ontario, Social Solutions is proud to bring performance management to the Canadian social service sector, and in turn, we as a company continue to be impressed by the level of commitment and focus of Canadian government and nonprofit clients.