Cross-Site Projects
Cross-site projects are those undertaken by NNIP with the participation of multiple partners. Some initiatives are designed to engage all of the local partners and strengthen the network as a whole. In others, a few partners undertake a comparable set of tasks to advance an agenda in their own community. Throughout the initiative partners share their successes and challenges and their experiences are woven together in a summary report to offer lessons for other localities and national policy.
2022 - 2024
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Black Wealth Data Center Our legacy of racism in US policies and practice – before and through emancipation, reconstruction, and Jim Crow – has sustained a distressing gap in wealth. Specific systemic actions and... [read more]
September 2017 - June 2022
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Institute for Museum and Library Services The Civic Switchboard project develops partnerships between libraries and local data intermediaries to better serve data users, further democratize data, and support equitable access to... [read more]
July 2020 - March 2021
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Annie E. Casey Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic has lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, causing financial hardships for many people and battering economies for local communities. All of this is... [read more]
January 2018 - May 2020
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Annie E. Casey Foundation NNIP's new project promotes data-driven planning for 2020 Census local outreach to ensure a complete count of young children and people of color, starting with a resource list for communities and... [read more]
May 2018 - March 2020
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Microsoft Criminal Justice Reform Initiative All people have a right to fair treatment from the U.S. criminal justice system, but bias in institutional policies and practices have resulted in racial... [read more]
January 2016 - March 2019
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The Kresge Foundation Turning the Corner: Monitoring Neighborhood Change to Prevent Displacement piloted a research model in five cities to monitor neighborhood change,... [read more]
October 2014 - April 2018
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation From 2014 to 2018, the Civic Tech and Data Collaborative (CTDC) brought together local government officials, civic technologists, and community data organizations across seven communities to... [read more]
September 2016 - September 2017
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Office of Minority Health at the US Dept. of Health and Human Services Data Driven Detroit (D3), in partnership with the Urban Institute, is working under contract to the Office of Minority Health (OMH) to provide technical assistance to two sites with the aim to... [read more]
April 2016 - August 2017
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Microsoft Civic Technology Engagement Local government and nonprofit staff need data and technology skills to regularly monitor local conditions and design programs that achieve more effective outcomes. Tailored training is essential... [read more]
April 2013 - December 2016
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Annie E. Casey Foundation In 2013, NNIP launched a three-year cross-site project, Connecting People and Place, supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to expand the relevance... [read more]
2008 - 2014
The Open Indicators Consortium (OIC), which operated from 2008 to 2014, was founded by partners from across the United States who came together to support and guide the development of the... [read more]
2008 - 2013
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, McKnight Foundation NNIP has developed a concept and plan for a shared indicators system with common measures across sites. The network has not yet raised the funds for implementation of these ideas. The lack... [read more]
2008 - 2012
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Sustainable Communities Initiative, implemented by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), involves strategic programs of action to transform communities in several demonstration... [read more]
June 2009 - June 2012
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Open Society Foundations, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Fannie Mae Little information exists about the children living in families facing foreclosure. Having well-grounded analysis raises the profile of how the crisis is affecting children and spurs local... [read more]
October 2007 - August 2010
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Annie E. Casey Foundation Eight partners were selected through a competitive process to participate in the initiative (see partners listed on the right). The project utilized the work of Charlie Bruner (Des Moines) who... [read more]
September 2008 - August 2009
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Fannie Mae The cross-site project, Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis, aimed to help local stakeholders in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. design more effective data-driven strategies to... [read more]
2004 - 2008
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Urban Markets Initiative, Brookings Institution, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Fannie Mae Foundation [read more]
2001 - 2006
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Annie E. Casey Foundation, National Institute of Justice The Reentry Mapping Network (RMN) was a nationwide partnership between the Urban Institute and organizations in 15 cities working to map and analyze prisoner reentry and related... [read more]
1996 - 2006
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Rockefeller Foundation The Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project (ACIP) was an exploratory and experimental effort to develop arts and culture neighborhood indicators for use in local planning,... [read more]
2001 - 2003
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Variations in neighborhood conditions are critical to health outcomes and program options in America. In almost all urban areas, serious health problems are highly concentrated in a fairly small... [read more]
1998
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Rockefeller Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation As work requirements and time limits of welfare reform went into effect around the country, decisionmakers needed reliable information at a local scale about the opportunities and challenges... [read more]