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DAIP creates impact through leadership development, workforce initiatives, organizational transformation, community engagement, cross-sector partnerships, and a growing commitment to meaningful measurement.

Impact Overview

Our Reach and Framework

16+Years of Impact
RIStatewide Reach
6Sectors Served
5DConsulting Framework

Impact Dimensions

Where We Create Change

Organizations Served

Supporting healthcare, corporate, nonprofit, education, government, and community organizations.

Leaders Developed

Building capacity among emerging, mid-career, executive, and community leaders.

Workforce Initiatives

Supporting career advancement, mobility, retention, and talent-pipeline development.

Learning Experiences

Delivering customized training, facilitation, professional development, and capacity building.

Convenings

Creating cross-sector gatherings that spark dialogue, relationships, and collective action.

Community Partnerships

Building sustained relationships with organizations and leaders across Rhode Island.

Measurement and Accountability

How We Will Measure Progress

DAIP is strengthening its measurement infrastructure so community voice, accessible participation, intersectional outcomes, and systems change can be tracked alongside program activity. Measures will be selected with partners and participants, reviewed regularly, and used to improve the work—not simply report it.

Community Reach

Residents and families engaged, communities reached, languages represented, and participation across disability, behavioral health, and other intersecting identities.

Barrier Reduction

Reasonable accommodations provided; physical, digital, communication, sensory, cognitive, and participation barriers addressed; supports accessed; and gaps identified through community feedback.

Partnership Activation

Organizations engaged, partner roles fulfilled, referrals exchanged, and cross-sector actions coordinated.

Leadership and Mobility

Learning completed, leadership capacity strengthened, career pathways supported, and participant progress over time.

Systems Improvement

Referral pathways strengthened, organizational practices changed, recommendations implemented, and policies influenced.

Learning and Accountability

Participant experience, partner feedback, disaggregated findings where appropriate, and adjustments made in response to what communities tell us.

Developing Measurement Infrastructure

The Rhode Island Belonging Index

DAIP is developing a confidential, cross-industry employer benchmark focused on representation, pay equity, retention and advancement, and program and policy maturity. Participating organizations will receive private insights, while public reporting will use aggregated and anonymized findings.

The purpose is to collect, diagnose, and improve—not to rank, shame, or call out employers.

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Kevin Matta

President

Kevin Matta  (he, him, his) is a strategic differentiator, comfortable challenging the status quo, and brings both passion and experience to ensure client success and human engagement with his brilliant ability to make connections.

Kevin’s interest in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion work developed as he witnessed his parents encounter inequities and injustices while navigating the American healthcare and workplace landscape. His passion for this work continues to be strengthened by the systemic injustices people around the world continue to experience.

Kevin serves as president of DAIP’s board of directors.

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