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Who We Are: SSDS and Its Staff

Corporate Facts

Legal and Financial Status

Social Sectors Development Strategies (SSDS) Inc. was incorporated in Canada at the federal level in 1988. In 1991, a legally and financially separate Social Sectors Development Strategies was incorporated in Massachusetts. In 1994, the Institute for SSDS was established as a non-profit organization in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and granted federal tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the Cognizant Federal Agency for the SSDS Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA), setting approved indirect cost rates applicable to all grants and contracts. SSDS Inc qualifies as a small, woman-owned business for US government procurements.

In 2001, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Human Research Programs approved SSDS for Federal-wide Assurance #FWA00000953, related to ongoing and future human subject research activities.