Greater Minnesota Housing Fund

Success Measures supported the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund (GMHF), a CDFI addressing the affording housing needs of underserved areas throughout Minnesota, as it implements its new strategic plan and expands impact.

As the initial steps in this collaborative process, the Success Measures team developed a narrative and visual comprehensive theory of change for GMHF’s multiple efforts, establishing the outcomes of programmatic, policy, advocacy and investment strategies as well as a measurement framework that identifies evaluation strategies, data sources and tools to document these outcomes. The evaluation team worked with GMHF to realign data already collected on their programs and investments with outcomes in the newly identified theory of change and built GMHF’s internal capacity to work with this variety of datasets.

Moving forward with the measurement strategies, Success Measures developed and implemented a survey to assess the mental and physical health, safety and well-being of residents in permanent supportive housing units in one property developed through funding from their Minnesota Equity Fund (MEF). GMHF used the Success Measures Data System for their data collection, management and analysis related to the survey. Success Measures is now working with GMHF to complete follow-up surveys at that property and launch the initial survey, with planned follow ups at one year intervals, in two additional properties.  (2023 — 2028)