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Since late 2011 articles on the Stanford Social Innovation Review have focused on "collective impact" or the result of organizations in a community working together to achieve a shared vision. One of the key strategies of Collective Impact is the use of shared measurement tools and a "backbone organization" that provides leadership to the network. We've been doing this for much longer.
OHATS for Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) was introduced to the T/MC in 2000 by Dr. Stergios Roussos, a graduate of the University of Kansas. This June 2000 PDF shows what an OHATS can do for organizations. The T/MC OHATS was built by Dr. Roussos, using a small grant from the Lloyd Fry Foundation. T/MC produced this report in 2002 to summarize actions documented from 1999-2002, and to request support for further development.
The first version of OHATS was rebuilt in 2007 by a team from India, based on the PDF report that Dr. Roussos published in 2002. It was used through 2013, with more than 1000 actions documented showing work done to achieve the four part strategy goals of the organization.
The 2007 version of OHATS included interactive graphics like the one shown at the left. Every time a recorder documented an action the pie chart in the Metric's pages changed. Click the button below to visit the T/MC OHATS site and learn more about this system, and the actions of the Tutor/Mentor Connection.
Visit the archived version of the T/MC OHATS site
NOTE: In 2015 OHATS site stopped functioning correctly due to MySQL error. Later, the graphics created using Adobe, also stopped working. The site is now only available as an archive.
The T/MC operated as a non profit organization and depended on charity donations and in-kind support to build and keep OHATS free and widely accessible. Since 2011 T/MC has been supported by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC. Dan Bassill, founder of the T/MC and T/MI is now 78 and instead of rebuilding the T/MC and OHATS under his lead he seeks investors, partners, volunteers and interns build new versions of OHATS, based on T/MC archives, and use them to support youth program growth in all cities, not just Chicago. Contact Dan if you'd like to take this role.
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