Tech Impact’s Receives $1.4M in Federal SIPPRA Grant Funding
WILMINGTON, DE (December 13, 2024) — Impact Strategy, a division of Tech Impact that leverages the use of technology and measurement practices to advance social impact, today announces it has received a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA) Program. The grant will fund Tech Impact’s role as evaluators in the New Castle County’s Family Housing Opportunities for Purposeful Empowerment (Family HOPE Project), a pilot program providing supportive services and cash-based housing assistance to empower families to secure permanent housing in Delaware. In collaboration with New Castle County and Social Finance, Tech Impact will act as the lead evaluation team for the project by composing both formative and summative program assessments over the next five years.
“We are honored to be a part of this expansive grant and exciting pilot program that aims to address a prominent challenge in one of our communities,” said Patrick Callihan, Tech Impact CEO. “Our goal is to provide the County with the tools and expertise needed to better measure and evaluate the success of programs like the Family HOPE Project. By collecting the right data in the right ways, we can better assess the effectiveness of these programs and increase positive outcomes for residents.”
Funding will support the implementation of a data and technology infrastructure to assess the program’s success over a three-year period. A quasi-experimental design, the study will ultimately compare housing security outcomes from two separate groups: Family HOPE Project families receiving cash assistance equal to 90% of fair market rent prices for two years, and a socio-demographically matched household control group not participating in the program.
“Our work over the next few years will help translate research into action by leveraging rigorous evaluation practices that are rooted in community and social change theory. In line with SIPPRA guidelines, through this work we will advance evidence of the Family HOPE project’s short- and long-term impacts on the lives of its participants helping us understand the effectiveness of the intervention” said Héc Maldonado-Reis, Tech Impact’s Managing Director of Impact Strategy.
New Castle County is one of six national awardees chosen through a competitive process that will share $47M in federal funding if projects are shown to be successful through an independent evaluator. Tech Impact and New Castle County have partnered together previously on projects like the New Castle County Wastewater High-Risk Substances Dashboard that tracked wastewater discharge to measure viral loads of COVID during the pandemic and later high-risk substance abuse to better direct appropriate resources.
Tech Impact’s growing Measurement and Evaluation Service supports strategic capacity building and data-driven programming in organizations through developing organizational social impact strategies, assisting with the design and evaluation of interventions, and leveraging technology to enhance outcomes reporting & Communications. To learn more about their work, visit techimpact.org.
