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Investments and Service Units by Region

Click on a region below to download a report detailing:

  • Strategies invested in by that region
  • Grant partner(s) servicing each strategy
  • Amounts awarded
  • Results of each grant (i.e., populations served, services delivered, etc.)

Each report includes historical data for each year of the region’s existence (back to 2010, FTF’s first full year of spending at the regional level).

The regions listed below reflect geographic areas that merged with other regions to create new regional councils.

Central Maricopa
Central Phoenix
Central Pima
Northeast Maricopa
North Phoenix
North Pima
South Phoenix

Prior to 2012 grantee progress/activity was monitored through narrative reports. Narrative reports are still collected for all contracts providing qualitative and contextual data.

For contracts after 2011 where service units are not reported, narrative reports continue to function as the tool for tracking grantee progress/activity. There are multiple reasons why a contract may not have service units established, including the strategy still being developed and/or uniqueness within the SOW that cause the standard service units for the strategy to not apply in a particular instance. Additionally, those strategies executed by FTF do not utilize service units or narrative reports. Rather, they are tracked and reported through internal administrative processes and agency reporting (e.g. Board strategy updates and reports).

In instances where N/A is reported for a service unit, the grantee was not contracted for this specific component of the strategy.

When viewing service units for a strategy across years a change in the definition of the service unit may be seen. This is a result of revisions/updates to the Standard of Practice for the strategy.

Service units are not the only data points collected by FTF on its grantees. The additional data points collected from grantees are available in the quarterly reports and provided to regional councils. These data are also made available to the Board on the FTF Board Member site. While regional councils receive these data in a few different formats (including by grantee), the presentation provided on the Board site is at the strategy level.

In the instances where a negative expense is reported, this is a function of an unanticipated refund from the prior fiscal year which was received after the close of that year. These can result from fiscal monitoring visits/reviews done by FTF and/or audits required under FTF’s contracts with grantees.