The Mid-America Institute on Poverty is conducting a three-year evaluation of Century Services, a social business enterprise operated by Heartland Alliance’s Century Place Development Corporation.The evaluation aims to provide: A clear understanding of the social business enterprise partnership model, Real time information on the enterprise’s impact on employees so that management may make adjustments in implementation as necessary, and an outcomes-based understanding of the Century Services model as an intervention designed to: improve the attitude of employees toward work, help employees develop work skills, and increase the labor force attachment of hard-to-employ persons.