SINGLE STOP USA INC

Results: In 2008, 95,000 families visited 59 Single Stop sites, accessing more than $250 million in benefits and services, including nearly $105 million in federal tax refunds delivered to 68,000 taxpayers. In the first six months of 2009, we delivered benefits counseling, free tax preparation, and financial and legal counseling to more than 100,000 households. Our work this year has resulted in households receiving $170 million in benefits, services, and tax refunds and savings. 

Direct beneficiaries per year: 100,000 families

Geographic areas served: Caifornia, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York

Programs: Single stop harnesses americas most effective anti-poverty tools to create economic mobility for low-income families and individuals. Single stop breaks the cycle of poverty by leveraging existing financial resources with opportunities for education, counseling, training, and supporta powerful recipe for lifelong financial stability. Single stops one-stop-shop model provides unprecedented ease of access to a holistic set of services, in one place at one time, utilizing technology to create maximum impact. Since 2007, single stop and its partners across 100 sites in eight states connected 1 million families and individuals with nearly $3 billion in public resources, tax refunds, and supportive services. In 2014, single stop and its network of community-based organizations, community college, and other institutional partners connected nearly 182,000 low-income households in eight states (california, florida, louisiana, massachusetts, mississippi, new york, new jersey, and pennsylvania) to life-sustaining public resources and local services valued at more than $536 million, including child care subsidies, financial aid, health insurance, tax refunds, snap (food stamps), and housing assistance. At each partner institution, a single stop site coordinator uses our propriety technology to let individuals and their families know in as little as 15 minutes what public resources and local services they are likely eligible for and then guides them through the application process. Sites also offer free financial counseling, legal services, and tax preparation. An internal analysis shows that for every dollar invested, single stop obtains for clients $20 worth of public resources, tax refunds and local services. In 2014, single stop continued to expand and deepen our services to fight poverty. Single stop augmented its nationwide community college expansion strategy with the opening of new sites at roxbury community college and springfield technical community college in massachusetts, as well as three campuses at hinds community college in mississippi. In 2014, single stops new york-based programs served approximately 155,000 low-income households, connecting them to resources and services valued at nearly $501 million. The new york programs also explored and forged new multi-stakeholder strategies to bring the single stop model to particularly high-needs populations, including senior citizens and chronically homeless families. Further, in the second implementation year of the affordable care act, single stops health care navigation program enrolled 4,910 households into health care. The estimated value of this drawdown is $53 million.