The United Way of the Bay Area and Y&H Soda Foundation are evaluating the success of their grantees by how effectively they are able to move families toward self-sufficiency, as defined by the Self-Sufficiency Standard.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research used the Standard to analyze the additional cost burden faced by elders when older adult children move home.
The San Diego Women’s Foundation focused its 2013-2014 grant cycle on proposals that would help families move toward self-sufficiency.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) won a higher wage floor in contract negotiations after the Insight Center for Community Economic Development used the Self-Sufficiency Standard in a wage analysis of University of California service workers, entitled High Ideals, Low Pay: A Wage Analysis of University of California Service Workers.
In 1997, Sonoma County, California adopted the Standard as its formal measure of self-sufficiency and as a benchmark for measuring success in welfare-to-work programs.
