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The Hardest Part of Government Modernization Isn’t Technical—It’s Institutional

PIPER: Revolutionizing Medicare Program Integrity with AI

From Insight to Impact: A Three-Part Data Visualization CoP Series

From Legacy Code to Production-Ready Platforms: How Summit Modernizes Federal Analytics

Where Credit Is Due: The Case for Modernizing Federal Credit

Summit Launches CredInsight: A New Era in Federal Credit Modeling, Budgeting, and Audit Compliance

Transforming Federal Lending Program Operations (Part 3 of 3)

Transforming Federal Lending Program Operations (Part 2 of 3)

Transforming Federal Lending Program Operations (Part 1 of 3)

Loan Monitoring: One System, Many Agencies

Loan Monitoring: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Beyond

Loan Monitoring: Innovation in Software Platforms

Data science insights from the annual Posit conference

Loan Monitoring: AI Predictive Insights

Strengthening and Supporting Rural Health Care in the United States

Summit Named to 2025 Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Optimizing Federal Lending Programs for Cost Efficiency and Resilience

White Paper: Fair Value Accounting in Federal Credit

Transitions: Managing Change While Maintaining Stability

The Evolution of Model Risk Management: From Regulation to Practice

Wrap-Up: American Evaluation Association 2024 Conference

Using Evidence in the Fight Against Fraud

Capital Ideas: How Does FHA Loan Pricing Work?

Four Signs Your Agile Transformation May Be Off Track

Technology Change Without Business Process Improvement Is Not Modernization (Part 1 of 5)

Summit Selected for GSA Program Evaluation Services Subgroup

White Paper: Opportunities and Challenges in Credit Program Shared Services

Making Government Modernization Work

MPHA Welcomes Researchers Examining Onsite Educational Services for Public Housing Residents

Summit Subject-Matter Expert Kenneth Kuchno Speaks on Panel at the Broadband Communities Summit

Summit Director Samuel Dugger on Attending the Project Summit Business Analyst World Conference

The IRS: Investing in a Digital Customer Experience

Summiteers Compete in 2024 Du Bois Visualization Challenge

Fostering Connections at Virginia Tech

Keep Your Mental Health in MIND

Opportunities for CDFIs to Support the Growing Opportunity Zone Market

Interest Rate Risk: How Do We Measure and Mitigate It?

Summit Founding Partner Albert Lee Profiled in Real World Data Science

A Closer Look at Investor Impact in the Duval County, Florida, Housing Market

Summit Hosts Live Webinar about the Impact of Investors on Local Housing Markets

The Impact of Interest Rates on Federal Interest Costs

Public-Private Partnerships—Opportunities to Advance Infrastructure and Climate Goals

Summit to Present at the Maryland Governor’s Grants Office 2022 Annual Conference

Summit Hosts Live Webinar on the Alchemy of Program Evaluation

Celebrating Summit’s 2022 Summer Associates

Racial Disparities in Mortgage Lending in Washington, DC

Opportunity Zone Reporting Risk and Reward: What Happens If You Get It Wrong?

A Whole-of-Government Response to Persistent Poverty

The New Economic Struggles of Single-Family Home Borrowers (Part 2 of 2)

Qualified Opportunity Funds: Inspector General Recommendations and the Response from IRS Management

The New Economic Struggles of Single-Family Home Borrowers (Part 1 of 2)

The Essential Guide to Opportunity Zone Compliance

Perspectives on Business Modernization: Forget COTS—the Case for Customization

The Dangers of Buy Now, Pay Later

Office Climate Assessments: Benefits of Engaging Your Remote Workforce

Office Climate Assessments: Tactics to Keep a Remote Workforce Engaged

Office Climate Assessments: The Nitty-Gritty

What Is Buy Now, Pay Later?

Office Climate Assessments: New Year, New You, New Office

Summit Closes Out Second Year Sponsoring Virginia Tech Capstone Project

The Build Back Better Act: Progressing Rural Prosperity

Building Back Better in Opportunity Zones

A Strategy to Address Acute Needs and Advance Economic Resilience Is Critical to Deploying Latest Federal Funding

The Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Using the Census Household Pulse Survey to Measure Equity Advancement

Addressing Climate Change Through U.S. Government–Backed Mortgage Lending and Securitization

Summit Provides Annual Health Enforcement Training for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration

Summit Sponsors Centennial Celebration of the Budget & Accounting Act

Summit Consulting and NuvoLogic Consulting Form NuvoSum, a EDWOSB and 8(a) Mentor-Protégé Joint Venture

Opportunities for Climate Resilience at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Opportunity Zones Revisited: The Role of CDFIs in Driving Equitable OZ Impact

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 9: Triangulation and Mixed Methods

Summit Director Sarah Cunningham on Data in the Context of Social Equity and Civil Rights

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 8: Impact Evaluations

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 7: Administrative Data

Opportunity Zones Revisited: Using OZs to Measure the ‘S’ in ESG under Biden’s Build Back Better Plan

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 6: Logic and Theory of Change Models

Opportunity Zones Revisited: Could Legislative Changes Drive Greater Investor Adoption?

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 5: Surveys

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 4: Semi-Structured Interviews

Perspectives on Housing & Climate Change Resilience

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 3: Focus Groups

Summit Hosts 7th Annual DC DataFest Virtually

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 2: Literature Reviews and Environmental Scans

The Alchemy of Program Evaluation, Part 1: Introduction

Summit Commemorates Women’s History Month

Impact Capital for Racial Equity: Opportunities in the Biden Administration

A Statement from the Partners on the Recent Anti-Asian Violence

Impact Capital for Racial Equity: Investing with Intention and Measuring Impact

Summit Data Scientists Develop Flexible Tools to Meet Federal Clients’ Needs

The Role of Impact Capital in Advancing Racial Equity

The LIBOR Transition, Part 4: Consumer Protections as LIBOR Ends

We the People: Analyzing Comments on the Federal Register

We the People: What Is the Federal Register?

Summit Founding Partner Albert Lee Appointed to Board of Trustees at Harvey Mudd College

The LIBOR Transition, Part 3: No SOFR for FHA

Plugging In: Broadband Appropriations Under H.R. 133

The Biden Plan: Affordable Housing and GIS

Summit-Upjohn Report on MEP Program Shows Big Return to Federal Treasury

The Biden Plan: How Does Student Loan Debt Impact Homeownership?

The LIBOR Transition, Part 2: Challenges Associated with SOFR

The LIBOR Transition, Part 1: SOFR, So Good

The Biden Plan: Where Will the New Tax Credit Have the Most Impact?

The Biden Plan: What Is the New First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit?

Fair Lending: Predatory Lending and Origination Discrimination

The Devil Is in the Data: Machine Learning and Data Governance

Summit Remembers and Lives the Values of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Fair Lending: How to Detect Loan Pricing Discrimination

How Does Summit Detect Discrimination in Mortgage Lending? A Three-Part Series

Summit Consulting Sponsors Virginia Tech Data Analytics Capstone Students

Summit Team Lays the Foundation for Business Modernization at USDA, and Congress Makes CoEs Permanent GSA Program

How to Use Data to Analyze Pay Equity

OFN Recap #3: CDFI Sustainability and Resilience

Mechanical Turk: Potential Concerns and Their Solutions

OFN Recap #2: Racial Equity and Native CDFIs

OFN Recap #1: Capitalization, Public Policy, and Financing

Mechanical Turk Use in Psychological Experiments and the Courts

What Is Mechanical Turk? A Summit Series on Amazon’s MTurk

Summit’s Program Evaluators on the Future of U.S. Apprenticeship Programs

Three must-haves in pay equity analyses

Summit partners with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct data analysis and policy investigations for our clients

Economist’s Corner: Indicators to watch this fall

Summit releases new white paper: Applying Cost Estimation to Federal IT Modernization: A Quick Guide for Federal Project Managers

Summit releases new white paper: Summit's Approach to Mitigating Unforeseen Risks

Summit's 2020 Summer Associate Program was a huge success!

Supporting Rural America: Summit's Experience with Rural Health, Finance, and Access to Critical Services

An open letter from Summit Consulting to our community in response to social and racial injustice

Sneak peek: new Summit data tool helps clients visualize US areas that are most heavily impacted by the COVID-19 virus

Opinion paper: Impact of Covid-19 on the Mortgage Industry

Summit releases new white paper: Accounting Volatility, Loan Loss Reserve Credit Modeling, and COVID-19

COVID-19 causes landlords to scramble in April 2020

Modeling COVID-19's Impact

Data visualization: decision-making from your web browser

Summit releases new white paper on key changes to USDA credit programs in the 2018 Farm Bill

Data Governance Frameworks – a starting point for financial institutions

Summit appoints Erin Lucien to Advisory Board

Summit welcomes Josh Goldberg as Director

Summit welcomes Samuel Dugger, PMP, as Director

Summit's modernization work shines at USDA Impact Expo

U.S. Dept. of Education Federal Student Aid chooses Summit Team for Next Gen Program Management Support (PMS) Services award

Summit-Westat team selected by HHS for the MEPS-MPC Evaluation Award

Summit wins $1M USDA FPAC contract

Summit awarded best-in-class Federal contract vehicle: GSA IT Schedule 70

Summit Wins Employer Support of Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Seven Seals Award

NBC highlights Summit's role in supporting women in STEM

Opportunity Zones Regulations

Notes from the Government Analytics Breakfast Forum: Using Analytics to Combat the Opioid Crisis

How OFCCP’s New Compensation Directive Benefits Contractors

Summit Uses Analytics to Estimate Hurricane Impacts on Operations

Advantages of Tree-Based Modeling

Opioid Crisis at the State Level: What's the Cost?

Impact Evaluation of Mission-Oriented Investments

Strength in Numbers: Pay Equity

Portfolio Monitoring for Mission-Oriented Investments

Summit Releases New White Paper on Credit Risk Transfer

Evaluating Potential Mission-related Investments: Alignment with Mission and Desired Impact

Evaluating Potential Mission-Related Investments: Credit Risk Analysis

Strength In Numbers: Unstructured Data

Summit’s Mission-Oriented Finance Overview

The Opioid Crisis: An Interview with State Representative Michael Curcio

Strength In Numbers: Excel is Not Powerful Enough For Your Data Needs

Visualizing Pay Equity: 2017 Gartner Study Highlights Effects of an Organizational Commitment to Pay Equity

The Opioid Crisis: Using Data

Strength In Numbers: Demystifying the Cloud

An Executive Approach to Modernizing Infrastructure

The Opioid Crisis: An Overview

An Executive Approach to Accelerating Rural Economy

When Computers Understand Us

How Do Opportunity Zones Differ from Existing Federal Tax Incentives for Community Development?

An Executive Approach to Strengthen Existing Federal Lending Programs

Strength In Numbers: Quality Control

An Executive Approach to Accelerating Infrastructure Investment

Opportunity Zones: An Overview

Strength In Numbers: Sampling, A Powerful Tool in Expert Hands

How EBSA Is Changing the Definition of an “Employer”

Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

Complexity Simplified: Using Regression for Pay Equity Analyses

Notes from the ASSA Annual Conference

Strength In Numbers: Using Regression for Pay Equity Analyses

Finding Strength In Numbers

Why Structure and Organize Data?

IN THE NEWS: The Estate Tax, Part 3 – BONUS: Why Is It Hard to Measure Income from Assets?

IN THE NEWS: The Estate Tax, Part 2 – Reducing Complexity for Heirs

IN THE NEWS: Tax Reform and the Estate Tax – But I Thought We Had an Income Tax?

Summit Attends Event on Algorithmic Bias and STEM Careers

Summit Releases Infrastructure Investment White Paper

To Rent or Buy: A Retiree’s Question Answered

Summit to Present New Paper on RCT and RDD at APPAM Conference

Summit Releases New Administrative Data White Paper

Notes from This Year's DC DataCon

Summit's Dynamic Forecasting Course Series Starts Tomorrow

The Benefits of Evidence-Based Impact Evaluation

Housing Counseling's Upcoming Challenges

What Are the Challenges of Using My Administrative Data for Analysis and Evaluation?

How Can I Use My Administrative Data for Analysis and Evaluation?

The Importance of Housing Counseling

Why Should I Use My Administrative Data for Analysis and Evaluation?

Summit Releases New Fair Lending White Paper

Reverse Mortgages and Non-Borrowing Spouses: A Case of Unintended Consequences?

Summit Publishes New White Paper On Federal Credit Best Practices

Impact Evaluations using Administrative Data: How the Synthetic Control Method Opens Doors to Otherwise Impossible Impact Evaluations