Timeline of Activity

July, 2009: Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services convenes the “Strengthening Nonprofits Task Force,” and the workgroup focused on Human Services Data launches.

September, 2009: New York City is awarded a grant under the “Strengthening Communities Fund” of ARRA for the Human Services Data Project.

2010: The HSData workgroup expects to:

  • Complete a scan of similar and complementary efforts related to shared measurement approaches and scalable methodologies to analyze nonprofit financials
  • Conduct outreach to nonprofit providers, funders, researchers, and other stakeholders in targeted human service sub-sectors to begin the process of defining a standard taxonomy of performance measures
  • Produce a draft taxonomy for a select number of human service sub-sectors for public comment

2011: Expected work:

  • Finalize standard taxonomy v1.0
  • Develop technology to facilitate simple exchange of information adhering to standard taxonomy