SAM WHITESIDE
Consultant
Sam sees a pathway for change and meaningful progress in the homelessness space. He idealizes a world where the US public and policymakers have clear facts about spending and results in homelessness policy. This clarity will allow for policymakers and leaders to improve programs incrementally with a clear understanding of spending and pathways to achieve meaningful results.
Throughout his entrepreneurial career, Sam has empowered thoughtful leaders and changemakers in the variety of world-class organizations he has created. He is applying this proven expertise to maximize impact in the public policy space.
By engaging with homelessness at the most granular level, he has honed an ability to keenly identify the nuance in municipal and regional policy approaches to homelessness. After scouring hundreds of municipal budgets spanning federal, state, county, and city offices and looking behind the numbers, Sam saw audits being regularly used to justify counterproductive spending and misguide the public into believing ineffective and expensive policies were helping our communities’ most vulnerable.
With the recent increases in funding towards homelessness and affordable housing, Sam is intent on providing raw facts and reporting actual metrics to aid concerned citizens and policymakers in most effectively improving lives. He wants to end the cycle of perpetual spending and lackluster impact.
Sam graduated from UT with a BBA in Finance, which at the time was ranked the #1 undergraduate finance program by US News and World Report. He later attended Acton MBA for a business degree in Entrepreneurship which was then ranked the #1 most competitive MBA program in the US by Princeton Review.
Sam sees a pathway for change and meaningful progress in the homelessness space. He idealizes a world where the US public and policymakers have clear facts about spending and results in homelessness policy. This clarity will allow for policymakers and leaders to improve programs incrementally with a clear understanding of spending and pathways to achieve meaningful results.
Throughout his entrepreneurial career, Sam has empowered thoughtful leaders and changemakers in the variety of world-class organizations he has created. He is applying this proven expertise to maximize impact in the public policy space.
By engaging with homelessness at the most granular level, he has honed an ability to keenly identify the nuance in municipal and regional policy approaches to homelessness. After scouring hundreds of municipal budgets spanning federal, state, county, and city offices and looking behind the numbers, Sam saw audits being regularly used to justify counterproductive spending and misguide the public into believing ineffective and expensive policies were helping our communities’ most vulnerable.
With the recent increases in funding towards homelessness and affordable housing, Sam is intent on providing raw facts and reporting actual metrics to aid concerned citizens and policymakers in most effectively improving lives. He wants to end the cycle of perpetual spending and lackluster impact.
Sam graduated from UT with a BBA in Finance, which at the time was ranked the #1 undergraduate finance program by US News and World Report. He later attended Acton MBA for a business degree in Entrepreneurship which was then ranked the #1 most competitive MBA program in the US by Princeton Review.
