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Chapter 4: Analysis of Current Funding of the Continuum The Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department managed the collection of both "source" fonder budgets/performance reports and service provider budgets, with assistance provided by BAE. The "source" fonder budgets/performance reports were individually requested, and all requests were eventually responded to. For the service providers, the data collection proved more difficult. Two mailings requesting budgets and/or budget information were sent to a list of more than 120 service providers in Alameda County during late summer, 1996. The list of these providers was supplied by Eden 1 & R, which maintains a database of all homeless service providers and their services for referral purposes. The mailings generated a very low response rate. Amore direct approach was then implemented with BAE preparing a standardized budget matrix which was provided to the County Housing and Community Development Department for distribution to various jurisdictional agencies for subsequent direct distribution to the service providers. Additional announcements were also included in County mailings to request service provider cooperation in this effort and were made at ESN meetings. Data was collected and organized by the concept of a "program", which was defined as an identifiable effort to provide a defined service to a specific population(s). In most cases, budget data for fiscal year 1995-96 were used, but in some instances, data were collected for most recent available fiscal year (certain jurisdictions had not completed FY budgets or are on a different budgeting/reporting cycle). A total of 39 data sources were used to compile the database; including nine City and County budgets, funding data from major foundations, performance reports for federal and state programs, and data from a limited number of County-based service providers. The resulting database contains a total of 344 program records, with each including the following fields (if data were available): • Dollar amount • Administering Agency • Program Name • Program Location • Continuum of Care Category -categorized as prevention, outreach, emergency, support, transition, permanent and, planning/administration (See below for definitions of what is included in these categories.) • Program Category -categorized as health, housing, food, mental health, transportation/childcare, support services, advocacy, substance abuse, and vocational/educational • Target Population -categorized as all, all adults, solo women, children and youth, families with children, solo men, women and children, and elderly Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 50