We are building an opensource local resource directory to replace our current asset service provider system. This is a Rails based app built on the Heroku platform and will be rapidly deployable in other cities with different focuses.
The app allows for basic service searching by custimizable categories, user management of local service provider data and location based filtering and searching. The default will allow for lanugage based service filtering also in a Yelp like interface.
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is currently no charge for these products, but users are asked to register and let us know how they use our work. Children's Optimal Health works to improve operations, impact policy, engage the community and support research to improve the health and well-being of all children in Central Texas.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes creative placemaking with its flagship Our Town initiative and its predecessor, the Mayor’s Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary initiative. These initiatives demonstrate the NEA’s commitment to public engagement with arts by advancing such activities as art and design in public space, community arts fairs, and cultural festivals. The desired outcome of these efforts is to strengthen communities and enhance community livability through initiatives that have the arts, design or cultural activities at their core.
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County Opportunity Youth Initiative.
“211” call and online systems provide information and referrals to health, human and social service organizations. The data from these systems include information about the services available and about the callers’ requests. More NNIP partners recently have been working with the data or expressed interest in doing so.
The Family Services Initiative is a collaboration among four partner agencies in Pinellas County working to provide families the right service, at the right time, for the right need. Although the initiative is several years old, for the past nine months, the initiative has taken up the specific goal of keeping homeless families out of hotels and ensuring them places in shelters specifically set up for them. The Juvenile Welfare Board has been participating in weekly meetings as a data partner, tracking how the initiative is doing at reaching their goals.
In Baltimore, community efforts are often a cornerstone of ongoing programming or projects, and this often depends on the many community-based organizations (CBOs) throughout Baltimore. CBOs operate within a particular place and often have long-term expertise in a particular policy area and are led by members of the communities they serve.
