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Product updates, HUD Data Standards news, and patterns we are seeing across the 60+ communities we work with.
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April. The temperature climbs. The encampments that were hard to ignore in February slip back behind buildings, into bus stations, into the spaces nobody takes a photo of. The crisis does not thaw. Th…
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Earlier this year, as CEO of Gaither Dynamic, I joined a small group of supportive housing leaders, HMIS experts, and technology partners at a CSH-hosted working convening on how AI and digital tools…
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Spring is here, and with it comes a shift. The winter headlines about overcrowded shelters and people freezing on the streets will fade. The temperatures rise, the tents become less visible, and the p…
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We count people experiencing homelessness once a year and wonder why the numbers never change. But what if the count itself is the wrong metric? In my new article, I break down why the Point-in-Time C…
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The NHPD is a free, public tool that visualizes HUD data from 2015 through 2024 for every Continuum of Care in the country. It covers HUD award amounts, HIC bed coverage, data quality, and every Syste…
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We’re excited to announce that Gaither Dynamic will be exhibiting at the NHSDC Spring 2026 Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico from April 13 through 15. Our CEO, Gaither Stephens, has presented at N…
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“The Most Expensive Lie in American Housing Policy” takes on the “personal choices” narrative that has shaped how America responds to homelessness for decades. The article walks through the data on ho…
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It’s been a brutal winter. Record cold pushed shelters past capacity. For a few weeks, the country paid attention to the people sleeping outside. Warming centers opened. Donations spiked. Now the temp…
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Recorded live at the Florida Coalition to End Homelessness (FCEH) Conference in Orlando on October 23, 2025, this session features Gaither Stephens — national speaker, data scientist, and CEO of Gaith…
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A data-driven look at how systems thinking and Housing First principles transform homelessness from a personal issue into a solvable systems challenge.
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Presented at the 2025 Person Centered Housing Options (PCHO) Annual Conference: e-Racing the Shades – Confronting Housing Inequities, Race, Rent, and Power examines how these three forces intertwine t…
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Gaither Stephens, CEO of Gaither Dynamic, will present two sessions at the eRacing the Shades: Confronting Housing Inequities conference. His first, Race, Rent, and Power, will highlight how racial eq…
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I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the Florida Coalition to End Homelessness Conference in Orlando this October! On Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 10:15 a.m., I’ll be presenting: From Raw D…
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This February, Gaither Dynamic was proud to exhibit at the National Alliance to End Homelessness’s 2025 conference in Los Angeles, focusing on innovative solutions for ending unsheltered homelessness.…
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Join Gaither Stephens, CEO of Gaither Dynamic, from February 26-28 at the NAEH 2025 conference, themed “Innovations and Solutions for Ending Unsheltered Homelessness.” Visit our booth to explore advan…
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Join Gaither Stephens, CEO of Gaither Dynamic and Founder of CoC Alliance, for a transformative presentation on harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to enhance social services. In this sess…
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Celebrating 5 Years of Gaither Dynamic We are thrilled to celebrate the 5-year anniversary of Gaither Dynamic! Since our inception in 2019, we’ve been committed to transforming how organizations use d…
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Catch Gaither Stephens at NHSDC Fall 2024 Don’t miss my session, “Witchcraft or Wizardry? AI’s Magic in Social Workflows,” on October 22, 2024, as we explore the transformative impact of AI in social…
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We are thrilled to announce that our Founder & CEO, Gaither Stephens, will be speaking at the upcoming Florida Coalition to End Homelessness (FCEH) Conference. This important event is set to take plac…
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Discover the Future of Social Services at ClarityConnect 2024: Join us at the Sahara Las Vegas from September 17-19 for ClarityConnect 2024, hosted by Bitfocus. This premier event for HMIS professiona…
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In our recent presentation at the National Human Services Data Consortium (NHSDC) Spring 2024 conference in Kansas City, MO, we explored the significant role of artificial intelligence, particularly A…
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I recently spoke at the Florida Coalition to End Homelessness conference, where I discussed data-driven strategies to make social service agencies more effective and efficient. The talk covers key asp…
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Join me on Thursday, October 5, from 9:15am-10:45am in Orlando, Florida, as I delve into data-driven solutions to tackle homelessness. I’ll discuss how improving data quality and implementing performa…
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GAITHER DYNAMIC CEO, Gaither Stephens, will be speaking at the Florida Conference to End Homelessness about Enhancing Homeless Social Service Organizations: Leveraging Data Quality, Visualization, and…
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Hi, In this newsletter I’ll be showing you some of the basics of the Chat-GPT AI and how it can help improve your organization! First, you’ll want to visit Open AI’s Chat-GPT (https://chat.openai.com)…
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The Community Equity Dashboard is a newly available dashboard that communities can use to analyze racial equity!
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Gaither Dynamic joins the National Low Income Housing Coalition in urging the Biden administration to use the fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget request to call for robust funding for affordable housing, ho…
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Florida Housing Coalition Ending Homelessness Team Director Amanda Wander and Gaither Dynamic CEO Gaither Stephens Speak at the 35th Annual Affordable Housing Conference 2022 put on by the Florida Hou…
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On Friday, April 8, 2022, Gaither Dynamic’s application to join AWS GovTechStart was approved! AWS GovTechStart, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) government technology (GovTech) startup accelerator, is d…
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https://youtu.be/Dk0zbAsjJBo Gaither Stephens presented at the 2022 National Human Services Data Consortium conference in Minneapolis, MN on March 30, 2022. DETAILS: Data is a powerful tool sitting at…
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(Don’t Fear) The Data Tuesday, February 22nd @ 2:30 PMPrepare yourself for a data workshop unlike any other data workshop before! In Gaither’s previous FCEH conference presentation, he showed the audi…
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Gaither Stephens, CEO of Gaither Dynamic, will be presenting at the Fall NHSDC conference in Atlanta, GA on Wednesday, October 13, at 3:30pm. Here’s the official synopsis: Use data to impact your com…
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We’ve added new video demonstrations to each dashboard page; Analysis, Performance, and Snapshot. The videos highlight dashboard features and functionality. Visit the individual dashboard pages to v…
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The Community Snapshot Dashboard has been updated with more visualizations, information keys, and an improved color scheme. The System Flow by Last Exit utilizes a Sankey chart to display the Living…
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We are excited to announce that we have a new data dashboard available based on the HMIS SSVF data export. This dashboard highlights the important work being done by SSVF agencies and projects. Chec…
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Feeling the System Performance Measures crunch? Use the Community Performance Dashboard to examine your year-to-year comparisons from 2018-2019 BEFORE you click submit to HUD! As long as you have yo…
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We build data dashboards for entire CoC’s, individual agencies, and even individual projects all out of HMIS! Visit Gaither Dynamic for more information.
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Gaither Dynamic provides free data dashboards to CoC’s. Contact Gaither.Stephens@GaitherDyn.com for more information or fill out this form.
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Now the Community Analysis, Community Performance, and Community Snapshot dashboards are only $999/year individually or $2499/year for all three! This is a limited time offer, contact Gaither.Stephen…
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We are proud to provide the brand new Detroit System Performance Measures Data Dashboards! View them here: http://www.handetroit.org/spm-data-dashboards
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We are thrilled to be featured on the Cape Fear Council of Governments Tri County Homeless Interagency Council’s Data page!
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We are excited to announce a new partnership with such a great organization. Please visit The Hunger and Homeless Coalition of Collier County website at https://collierhomelesscoalition.org/ to find…
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We are excited to announce the addition of a new dashboard! The System Performance Dashboard is created from the Excel file available in HDX for CoC’s to download. Our automation tool takes the Exce…
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Over the next few months, Gaither Dynamic will be looking for more organizations to partner with in testing out our automated data visualization dashboard software. We are thrilled to announce that th…
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We had a great demonstration today with some of the HMIS team at Pinellas Homeless Leadership Board. We’re looking forward to their feedback on our APR dashboard and working with them far into the fut…
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We are excited to announce that we are working with FL-602 to bring data dashboards to all Continuums of Care across the country. By providing feedback and support, Gulf Coast Partnership is helping…
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Over the next few months, Gaither Dynamic will be looking for more organizations to partner with in testing out our automated data visualization dashboard software. We are thrilled to announce that th…
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We are looking for feedback on our new GaitherDyn Community Data Dashboard, viewable here: https://gaitherdyn.com/dashboard/ Please take a few minutes to view the dashboard and then take the survey us…
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I’ve added a demonstration video that goes into more detail on how reports are turned into dashboards using GaitherDyn software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFMgHNUvDA
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I first began making data dashboards out of necessity. I found that while many software vendors offered some sort of data visualization within their product, few had the ability to display visualizati…
