William Matson is dedicated to harnessing the power of data to address difficult community issues, including health disparities, poverty, and homelessness. Matson co-founded Pathways Community Network Institute in 1998. Pathways is a nonprofit organization that helps government and nonprofit leaders collect, understand, and utilize human services data. For the past 10 years Pathways has partnered with a sister nonprofit, Municipal Information Systems Inc. Working together as Pathways MISI, they specialize in serving small to mid-sized communities and currently support cities, counties, Continua of Care, and larger nonprofit organizations in six U.S. states. For six years, Matson led a data-related national trade association - the National Human Services Data Consortium - through its strongest growth period, as attendance at its semiannual conferences doubled and the organization's board grew in depth and experience.