Outside In

youth, health, housing, and harm-reduction nonprofit

Outside In

Industry Health

A Portland nonprofit health center and youth-services organization providing medical care, young-adult support, meals, housing support, drug-user health services, employment resources, and school-based care. It scores highly because it delivers low-barrier health and social infrastructure for homeless youth, low-income adults, and marginalized communities.

Why this matters: Outside In adds a broad Oregon health and youth-services network with multiple exact public service sites.

Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 57* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material53
Bonus+4
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap57
Penalties0
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Ownership; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Ownership7/10
  • Extraction7/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims9
  • Direct axis claims9
  • Coverage9/12

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
7 / 10

Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • context Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • context Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
5 / 10

Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • context Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • context Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
7 / 10

Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • context Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • context Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
6 / 7

Outside In operates a Young Adult Employment and Education Resource Center for education and work pathways.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • context Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • context Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]
  • Outside In operates a Young Adult Employment and Education Resource Center for education and work pathways. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
7 / 7

Outside In serves homeless youth and low-income adults, including young adults screened into the Homeless Youth Continuum.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • context Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • context Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]
  • Outside In serves homeless youth and low-income adults, including young adults screened into the Homeless Youth Continuum. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

Outside In's nonprofit and federally qualified health-center structure channels services toward people facing homelessness, poverty, and marginalization rather than commercial patient selection.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • context Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • context Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]
  • Outside In's nonprofit and federally qualified health-center structure channels services toward people facing homelessness, poverty, and marginalization rather than commercial patient selection. [6]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • context Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • context Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee. [1]
  • context Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie. [2]
  • context Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care. [3]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
1 / 3

Outside In's harm-reduction and youth-service model counters exclusionary approaches that deny care to people using drugs or experiencing homelessness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • Outside In's harm-reduction and youth-service model counters exclusionary approaches that deny care to people using drugs or experiencing homelessness. [7]
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
2 / 3

Outside In expands practical access to healthcare, housing support, education, and survival services for people otherwise excluded from full civic participation.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • Outside In expands practical access to healthcare, housing support, education, and survival services for people otherwise excluded from full civic participation. [8]
Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
1 / 3

Outside In offers multiple health, housing, harm-reduction, and youth-support entry points under one nonprofit service network.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food banks, social-enterprise restaurants, workforce nonprofits, health clinics, shelter-service nonprofits, urban farms, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • Outside In offers multiple health, housing, harm-reduction, and youth-support entry points under one nonprofit service network. [9]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 76/100

9 verified linked claims 9 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 9/12 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 20/20

9 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

9 direct claims across 12 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 16, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 8/10

9/12 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Outside In states that it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and a Health Center Program grantee.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2Outside In publishes public medical, pharmacy, young-adult support, drug-user health, employment-resource, and school-based health locations across Portland, Oregon City, and Milwaukie.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3Outside In provides health services, behavioral health, young-adult services, meals, housing support, pharmacy, harm reduction, recovery mentors, and related care.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

4Outside In operates a Young Adult Employment and Education Resource Center for education and work pathways.

Labor Sovereignty Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

5Outside In serves homeless youth and low-income adults, including young adults screened into the Homeless Youth Continuum.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

6Outside In's nonprofit and federally qualified health-center structure channels services toward people facing homelessness, poverty, and marginalization rather than commercial patient selection.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

7Outside In's harm-reduction and youth-service model counters exclusionary approaches that deny care to people using drugs or experiencing homelessness.

Openness To Dissent Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8Outside In expands practical access to healthcare, housing support, education, and survival services for people otherwise excluded from full civic participation.

Constitutional Spirit Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9Outside In offers multiple health, housing, harm-reduction, and youth-support entry points under one nonprofit service network.

Good Deal Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

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