At This Education Nonprofit, A Is for Analytics

Christopher House is a Chicago-based education nonprofit that prepares children and families from low-income households for success in life, in school and the workplace. Over the last 10 years, says CEO Lori Baas, the organization has focused on high-quality infant school, pre-school, early childhood education, elementary school, afterschool, and parent school programs, college and career readiness, and a commitment to using data at every step in every program along that continuum of education. In 2013, Christopher House opened an elementary school to expand the continuum of learning. Christopher House has an agency-wide database system to track student outcomes -- data that's used to assess programs and make program improvements.