In late 2010, the Urban Strategies Council and Oakland Unified School District, in partnership with the East Bay Community Foundation, launched a bold new initiative aimed at addressing the disparities in educational and social outcomes for African American males in Oakland. This six-year initiative has been established with a set of seven key goals that reflect the massive disparities faced by young black males in our city and a set of strategies aimed at improving those outcomes and eliminating most disparities within six years.
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African American Male Achievment Initiative (AAMAI)
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
March 1, 2012 to August 31, 2012
The PNCIS and education researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are convening a group of interested stakeholders from education and community development fields to develop a common research agenda to guide our work. Many in Pittsburgh are interested in learning more about how families choose schools and communities, and how the Pittsburgh Promise is influencing these decisions. The Pittsburgh Promise offers a scholarship of up to $10,000 per year to students of a Pittsburgh Public or Pittsburgh Charter school in pursuit of their postsecondary education.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
June 1, 2011 to April 1, 2012
Confronted by declining enrollment and decreased revenues, the Pittsburgh Public Schools has proposed to close seven buildings, effective in the 2012-13 school year. Decades of assigning students to schools based on street ranges (and not maps) resulted in irregular and unwieldy attendance boundary geographies. Using data and expertise from the Pittsburgh Neighborhood and Community Information System (PNCIS), school attendance boundaries were redrawn in the fall of 2011.
On May 30th at 10am Pacific, Urban Strategies Council and the Oakland Unified School District will be hosting the first of four webinars focusing on this insightful new research on the inequities faced by African American Males and the efforts underway to eliminate these disparities in education outcomes.
Audio to come soon. Presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Reinventing Older Communities Conference with CityCourced and Code for America/Open Plans staff on new ways to encourage innovation with information in a modern US city. Focused heavily on the benefits and strategies of OpenData to support engagement, accountaiblity, investment growth and new business incubation.
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Presentation on Civic Innovation at the Fed Res Philly Conference
InfoWorks is a collaborative effort between the Rhode Island Department of Education and The Providence Plan. The InfoWorks site is designed as user-friendly, easily accessible resource for anyone interested in Rhode Island's schools. Available data includes achievement results, demographics, funding, and opinion data.
For almost a decade the Providence Neighborhood Profiles have been a critical resource for government, community organizations, and people simply interested in learning about the City. With generous funding from the Rhode Island Foundation and Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program, ProvPlan has developed a new site - Rhode Island Community Profiles - that provides a host of statewide information.
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.
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County Opportunity Youth Initiative.
EastPoint PaCT (Promise and Choice Together) is a group of coordinated initiatives working to transform and revitalize the EastPoint neighborhood, a near-eastside area with a rich history and tradition. Among others, PaCT work includes the US DOE-funded Eastside Promise Neighborhood, the US HUD-funded Wheatley Choice Neighborhood, the US DOJ-funded Public Safety Enhancement initiatives attached to Promise and Choice, the Annie E.
SA2020 is a community visioning and collective impact initiative focused on 11 cause areas. CI:Now collects and analyzes the data to report indicators of progress in these areas, also working to shed light on critical disparities by race/ethnicity, gender, age group, and neighborhood.
CI:Now gathered and analyzed the data for the past several editions of Voices for Children of San Antonio’s Child Data Report, which you can find here. The Data Report has moved under the auspices of the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County's Children's Issue Council and will now be published as an online dashboard.
In May 2014, D3 launched the 2014 One D Scorecard, an online tool that reports on the status of our region through key data indicators in five Priority Areas: Economic Prosperity, Educational Preparedness, Quality of Life, Social Equity, and Regional Transit. The One D Index also rolls up the over 30 outcome-based indicators composing the five Priority areas into a single comprehensive score to better understand how metro Detroit stacks up across priority areas and other regions overall.
Just as longer commutes can have detrimental effects on adults, it reasonably follows that longer school commutes may have such effects as an increase in stress, tardiness and obesity rates on our youth. Conversely, in areas where housing patterns concentrate poverty and race in a neighborhood, longer commutes outside those neighborhoods might improve student outcomes. Though it is not yet clear just how school commute distance effects student performance, what is clear is that Detroit students and families are exercising their choice.
In Spring 2014, Mayor of Dallas Mike Rawlings gathered the Dallas community and created a Task Force to advise him on substantive, short-term plans to take action against poverty within the city. Dallas, which has the third-highest poverty rate for a city with a population of more than 1 million in the country, faces unique poverty challenges, which continue to disproportionately affect people of color. From 2000 to 2012, Dallas’ poverty increased by 41%, while the population of the city itself overall grew only by 5%. Dr.
In partnership with Rhode Island's Department of Labor and Training, ProvPlan is integrating workforce and unemployment data into the RI DataHUB to examine workforce related policy issues. Our first "Data Story" is expected to be published in early April 2015.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland) Shift Research Lab (Denver*) Neighborhood Nexus (Atlanta)
April 2014
Equity mapping uses GIS technology to make the connection between so-called areas of opportunity — places where jobs are relatively plentiful and access to education, healthcare, and other amenities is close at hand — and communities with high concentrations of low-income and minority residents.
Eight out of 10 smokers start smoking before they turn age 18. Although Washington state law requires each school district to have a written policy prohibiting the use of all tobacco products on public school property, the mandated policy requirements are vague. Public Health – Seattle & King County recently examined tobacco- and nicotine-related school district policies of all 19 school districts in King County, Washington where, in 2012, around 12,000 school-age children used some form of tobacco.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
June 2015
Lead affects Cleveland children even before kindergarten. In an unpublished report completed in June, Case Western Reserve University and Invest in Children examined the effect of lead poisoning on kids enrolled in the county's universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) programs.
Excerpt on new DataHaven / Community Foundation report from The Day, New London: A recently released report commissioned by the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut details inequities faced by women in New London and Windham counties in the realms of economic security, education, health and well-being, and leadership.
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New report details inequities for women in eastern Connecticut
