We help foster care and child welfare organizations turn fragmented spreadsheets and siloed systems into automated dashboards, accurate insights, and hours returned to your team.
Trusted by leaders across the foster care and family support space:
Vital information ends up trapped across disconnected software, custom spreadsheets, and legacy databases, making it nearly impossible to get a clear, real-time picture of your impact. Your team stepped into this work to change lives, not to spend half their week acting as manual data entry operators.
Make better decisions without changing your tools. We automatically pull data from your existing software into clear, actionable reports.
Use a different system? No problem at all. We can integrate just about any tool you're using.
You're trusted with records about children and families and we take that responsibility seriously. We ensure that data is safe and secure and ask for the least access the job requires.
If nobody on your team is technical
You may have one person handling IT alongside three other jobs, or an outside firm you call when something breaks. We'll work with whoever that is, in plain English, and won't leave you needing us to keep the reports running.
If you have an IT team
We'll go as deep on access and architecture as they want, work inside the standards you already have, and document it so they can review and maintain it.
Working with Kalon meant our tools finally talked to each other. Getting accurate, insightful data didn't just save us staff hours, it allowed us to track sibling placement metrics and keep brothers and sisters together.
Bob Bruder-Mattson
President and CEO
FaithBridge Foster Care
Kalon has truly transformed how we analyze and use our data, particularly as it relates to performance and quality improvement. Their software and practices are best-in-class.
Zach Blend
CEO
Goshen Valley Foundation
Every organization we work with starts somewhere different, so we start by listening. The first step is a 30 minute call where we’ll ask you about your current challenges and goals and then we’ll recommend a best next step, even if it isn’t with us.
Most organizations come to us in one of three ways.
“We don’t know where to start.”
We look at what you’re already collecting, what your team is building by hand, and which of the questions you’re being asked you can actually answer today. Then hand you a plan you can act on.
We’ll give you a document you can share with your board or use for grant applications, whether or not you work with us.
“We know our questions. We just need the reporting to work.”
The reporting most foster care organizations need, built on what we’ve learned working with organizations like yours, connected to the case management system your team already uses
This is where most organizations start.
“Our questions don’t look like anyone else’s.”
Multiple states, several software integrations, a program model nobody else runs. We build for that too, starting from the same place: what you’re being asked, and what you already have.
For organizations that have outgrown a standard starting point.
Not sure which one fits? That's what the first conversation is for. And none of these end at launch. Your questions will change, and we plan for that. We've been building with Faithbridge for nearly ten years.
In our first call, we’ll simply discuss:
Where your data currently lives and what’s getting lost in translation.
Any stalled technology or reporting projects you haven't been able to make progress on.
What a customized data and dashboard solution would look like for your organization.
No. Your team keeps working in the systems they know. We build a reporting layer on top, so the data you already enter becomes something you can actually read.
We see this situation often. We handle the architecture and the ongoing maintenance, and we write the documentation your one person needs to stay in control.
Scope drives cost, and we size the first phase so it fits a real nonprofit budget. Many partners fund the work through a capacity-building or technology grant, and we will help you describe the project in those terms.
You see interactive dashboard previews during prototyping, usually within the first month or two, before the pipelines are finished.
