BNIA-JFI released additional Vital Signs data for Baltimore City. Data for numerous indicators at the City and Community Statistical Area (CSA) are provided. In addition, BNIA-JFI made several new additions to its website including providing longitudinal Vital Signs indicator data available for download.
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 of adequate local data has been a major problem for formulating good policy in the past. National policy prescriptions have often been based on stereotypes rather than recognizing the diversity in conditions across neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan areas.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
May 2011
PCNIS is developing a Quality of Life survey for Pittsburgh region with Pittsburgh Today, the indicators project begun by the late John Craig. Neighborhood quality, crime perception, social relations and other neighborhood information will be collected to be analyzed with PNCIS information.
NOWCastSA, a project of CI:NOW, produced seven live, interactive webcasts from September 2010 to March 2011 as hundreds of residents gathered to discuss and choose goals and priorities and envision San Antonio in the year 2020. The webcasts, each of which included a live, real-time chat, enabled at least 1,000 individuals to participate and comment on the process online, NOWCastSA archived and hosted video of all 20 hours of the events and produced several more hours of video interviews with residents and key participants and leaders.
Four convenings were held in March and April to inform the next biennial summary report of the Boston Indicators Project. The meetings brought together sector experts and community practitioners to identify key trends and challenges centered on the four “buckets” of Greater Boston’s Civic Agenda: An Open, Inclusive Dynamic Civic Culture; World Class Human Capital; 21st Century Jobs & Economic Strategies; 21st Century Infrastructure & Sustainability. The next report will focus on jobs an the economy.
(Inactive) Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies (Chattanooga)
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
May 2011
The Greater Portland Vancouver Indicators (GPVI) project is in the final stretch of defining regional indicators, building a “community data commons” web site, and developing a business plan that outlines the future of the project. We recently held an event at Portland State University featuring Manuel Pastor from USC and Russell Hancock from Joint Venture Silicon Valley. The event introduced the GPVI project to the public and included a panel of local leaders to speak to the importance of a shared set of indicators to guide and align policy across jurisdictions.
Communities Count and Public Health data were featured in the key indicator system case study of King County WA AIMS High. For this report, a group of 20 comprehensive indicator systems from different jurisdictional levels and diverse locations were reviewed. In-depth case studies—including interviews with officials and stakeholders were conducted for seven these 20 systems. The criteria for selection as a case study system included comprehensiveness, longevity, outcome-oriented and involvement of a government entity as a partner or as a user of information from the system.
Related Links:
Key Indicator Systems: Experiences of Other National and Sub-national Systems Offer Insights for the United States GAO-11-396 March 31, 2011
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
August 2011
The Coalition for a Livable Future will partner with Metro, using the Context Tool Metro is developing, to produce the next edition of the Regional Equity Atlas. Rather than a printed book, it will be an interactive online tool to explore equity issues in the region. IMS will provide data on equity indicators for the project, as well as helping to develop training materials to teach people to use the Atlas effectively.
The Sacramento County Children's Report Card, first published in 2000, was established to show how well the Sacramento community is fulfilling its promise to children. The 2002 Report Card highlighted many of the community's successes and challenges and the 2004 Report Card includes data and trends over the last four years in 45 indicators. The 2004 edition was a major contributor in Sacramento’s successful bid to be named one of the “100 Best Communities for Young People” by the national group America’s Promise.
The State of Equity is the first in MAPC’s Regional Indicators program, which establishes a baseline for our equity-related indicators and will track the region’s progress towards the MetroFuture goals. The regional indicators website is the repository of all the data behind the report presented in an accessible, interactive format. A report identifying key policy and programmatic recommendations to “bend the trends” towards greater regional equity will be released later in 2011, and MAPC is reaching out to a wide variety of stakeholders to translate data findings into policy.
(Inactive) Metropolitan Chicago Information Center (Chicago)
May 2011
MCIC received a two year grant from the McKnight Foundation to work with the Center for Regional and Urban Affairs (CURA) to launch a National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership pilot project to help inform the development of a national shared community indicators system.
Additional data has been requested to update the 2010 State of the Child report. This new copy will provide the latest information on the population 0 to 18 years in the City of Detroit across a broad set of indicators. The additional research will serve as a basis for a deeper understanding of how to best support Detroit's children and as a benchmark against to measure gains in the future. An Annual Report Card to the Community is still proposed as a secondary outcome of this project.
The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center and University of New Orleans hosted a forum to introduce Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita, an edited volume from the Brookings Institution Press, and to discuss its implications.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
2011
Greater Portland Pulse (GPP), formerly known as Greater Portland-Vancouver Indicators (GPVI), is a growing partnership that uses both data and dialogue to encourage coordinated action for better results across the region. In economy, education, health, safety, the arts, civic engagement, environment, housing and transportation, Greater Portland Pulse data show where the region is successful and where it's lagging behind; where there's progress and where there's work to be done.
In 2011, D3 completed the annual update of the One D Scorecard. The Scorecard now includes trending information, with at least three years of data for most indicators. Over the coming year, D3 will be updating the Scorecard’s visuals and improving the interactivity of its website. One D was founded by Edsel B. Ford II and the Chief Executive Officers of eight regional civic organizations to promote positive change in Southeast Michigan. With the dissolution of One D, the One D Scorecard transitioned to D3.
The DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey (DCWS) uses probability sampling to create highly-reliable local information that is not available from any other public data source. The DCWS traces its origins to a series of locally-based efforts conducted over the past two decades to gather information about well-being in Connecticut neighborhoods.
The Communities Count partnership launches its new website in September, completing a major phase in the transition to a dynamic electronic resource for the many organizations that rely on Communities Count in their work to improve the lives of King County residents. As we enhance our interactive potential with new tools for data visualization, we have also strengthened our interpretive capacity, providing the governments, funders, agencies, and community-based organizations that use our data with an integrated framework that goes beyond “just the facts.”
BNIA-JFI is partnering with Morgan State University as a part of a Department of Homeland Security grant to explore and create a mobile application to provide a variety of indicator and GIS-based information using Vital Signs and other data for Baltimore's neighborhoods.
The outmigration that resulted in Detroit’s 25 percent population loss between 2000 and 2010 was driven, to a large degree, by families with children. In spite of that loss, children still accounted for 190,347 of Detroit’s residents, or 27 percent of the city’s total population. The State of the Detroit Child 2012 report tells their story. For more highlights from the report, see the press release.
Communities Count, a public-private data partnership, has completed the launch of all indicators on its new website (www.communitiescount.org). A sampler of new indicators:
At the 2013 Impact Summit, the Community Indicators Consortium recognized the Boston Indicators Project for its outstanding contribution to the indicators field. Jessica Martin, Research Director, accepted the award on behalf of the Boston Indicators Project. Jessica Martin has been the project's research director since 2006, helping to maintain and continually enhance the high-quality information and analysis provided by the Boston Indicators Project.
Neighborhood Nexus created profiles for every Georgia Senate and House legislative district in the state using Census 2010 and the American Community Survey. The profiles include static reports for every district as well as interactive maps that allow legislators and constituents to compare across districts.
This webinar, presented by Jeremy Smith, PhD, University of Colorado, will examine effective use of GIS technology as a way to change the way we view and describe our communities, with information about open source GIS solutions, and other resources such as Google Earth, and some tips on how to get started with data acquisition and analysis.
In 2013, The Providence Plan launched the Rhode Island Community Profiles website—a tool to present data in a series of interactive tables, maps, graphs and charts.
Through generous funding from the UB Provost Office, the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance at the Jacob France Institute will be hosting a faculty workshop to engage faculty across many disciplines to collaboratively create learning modules that can be used in syllabi. This project is heavily modelled after the KIDSCount in the Classroom and we have received terrific support from the Teaching with Data resources at the University of Michigan.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
September 5, 2014
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Greater Portland Pulse has launched a new, more user-friendly and visually appealing web site at Portlandpulse.org. GPP's indicators are organized around a revised set of themes and cross-referenced among these themes as appropriate. The website aslo features a more user-friendly design and a new interface for charts and graphs.
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (Baltimore) Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York) University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
October 30, 2014
Three NNIP partners (Baltimore, New York City, and Pittsburgh) are presenting at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning conference in Philadelphia on October 30.
Two NNIP partner staff were recognized for their leadership in the field of community indicators by the Community Indicators Consortium in 2014. Frank Lenk, Director of Research Services at the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) in Kansas City, MO, was selected to join the Hall of Heroes which honors "leaders who have had significant, long-term impact on the indicators field and the improvement of community conditions and well-being."
Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is developing an Automated Disease Surveillance (ADS) program using Stata statistical software. In addition to being able to analyze the health data of multiple record types (e.g., deaths, surveys, hospital discharge), the program also produces summary reports in various formats such as pdf, html or in an export format for use in data visualization packages such as Socrata. Reports can include tables, maps, charts, or other graphics as desired. PHSKC is developing the ADS program collaboratively, enabling multiple PHSKC epidemiologists to
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.
In collaboration with King County school districts, Public Health – Seattle & King County is developing school district health profiles that will inform school administrators and policy-makers, health and wellness planners, and the public about school health indicators. The primary data source for the reports is the Healthy Youth Survey (HYS), administered every 2 years to 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. Each profile includes:
DataHaven is piloting the World Health Organization's (WHO) Age Friendly Communities Indicator Guide for Connecticut. The pilot study is supported by Connecticut's Legislative Commission on Aging, Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, and Connecticut Community Foundation.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
February 13, 2015
Sheila Martin participated in the "Better Know a Community Indicators Project." The series, presented by the Community Indicators Consortium, offers an opportunity to learn more about community indicators projects all over the world, so community indicators practitioners can learn about each other and be in a better position to view each other as a source of inspiration and ideas.
After three years of citizen engagement and the creation of a Regional Growth Framework for the 14-county Charlotte region, the CONNECT Our Future initiative moves into the implementation phase, to assist local governments in their individual efforts to realize the goals and objectives of that framework.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
June 5, 2015
We’re holding our sixth-annual Neighborhood Information Users’ Conference, where we’ll launch our new product, the Southwestern Pennsylvania Community Profiles
Working with the Valley Community Foundation and approximately 20 other local partners, DataHaven produced a baseline indicators report on the Lower Naugatuck Valley region in 2015. DataHaven is now working with these partners on a longer indicators report, which will also function as a Community Health Needs Assessment for the region. The longer report is scheduled for publication in mid-2016.
DataHaven is working with local partners to develop a comprehensive indicators program for Fairfield County and surrounding areas, utlizing various data sources including DataHaven's 2015 Community Wellbeing Survey, which interviewed approximately 17,000 residents statewide including over 5,000 in Fairfield County and surrounding areas.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
October 16, 2015
In 2014, NNIP issued a guidebook, Monitoring Impact: Performance Management for Local Data Intermediaries, offering a conceptual framework for this work and suggesting a menu of applicable techniques. Now, Jake Cowen and Bob Gradeck have developed a new tool that can directly support the implementation of the approach by NNIP Partners, specifically in performance management for their Community Indicators Projects.
In 2014, we began holding virtual idea showcases after partners expressed the desire for more NNIP conversations between in-person meetings. Thanks to Idea Showcases, partners have shared their work and found new opportunities for collaboration with fellow NNIPers.
NNIP HQ started with a quick update on network activities including details about upcoming conferences and overall NNIP goals. Then, each presenter had 5 minutes to talk about potential, current, or completed work.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
October 6, 2017
The Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies is partnering with PSU's Nonprofit Institute to build a Nonprofit Pulse and Nonprofit Data Lab. Funded by a grant from Meyer Memorial Trust, and modeled on Greater Portland Pulse, the Nonprofit Pulse witll be an up-to-date, easy-to-read online data dashboard of regional indicators on everything that matters to metro Portland - designed specifically with nonprofits in mind.
The Healthy Communities Assessment Tool (HCAT) is an evidence-based web platform tool that offers a comprehensive approach for evaluating factors that contribute to community health. Developed by HUD’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes and part of a larger HUD Healthy Communities initiative, the HCAT is designed to evaluate physical, social, and economic service structures at the neighborhood level that support healthy living and healthy behaviors in our communities.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
July 2017
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Neighborhood Pulse has added new community stories and a data-rich base map of the Portland Metro. Click on a neighborhood to see its statistics and related stories.
The Houston Community Data Connections (HCDC) compiles and organizes neighborhood level data from various sources to facilitate the use of data and inform decision-making. Besides providing technical assistance and research services to a variety of organizations such as nonprofits, government agencies, media and advocacy groups, we also engage with community and local stakeholders to understand the changes in and challenges to our neighborhoods, and ultimately to address equity issues.
IHS looked at data on where the under-18 population in Chicago is growing or declining. We talked to key neighborhood stakeholders to understand why and what these trends mean for neighborhoods.
Related Links:
Why Some Chicago Neighborhoods Are Losing Their Children
(Inactive) Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (Philadelphia)
2004 - 2010
This annual report monitors dimensions of community life, selecting critical indicators to tell us where Philadelphia stands as a region and within individual local communities. We provide annual updates for the indicators contained in this publication, as well as many others, in order to track changes in our communities, identify strengths, and focus attention on problem areas.
Idea Showcases are 5 minute opportunities to highlight or talk about the great work our organizations are doing. We had a great line up for this showcase!
BNIA has updated their six pre-recorded Learning Modules for anyone to use. Professors can insert the modules into their syllabus as a class exercise or engage your community in your next meeting. The modules include goals and exercises for people to complete and learn more about Baltimore neighborhoods.
Community Data & Research Lab at the Johnson Center (Grand Rapids)
May 4, 2022
Community Insight is a platform for displaying data about local communities, understanding community opportunities and needs, and targeting efforts for advancing equity. We draw on multiple datasets from a range of systems and institutions on topics such as education, health, economic opportunity, population demographics, and more. Much of the data is available at a community level or lower (e.g., Census tract).
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (Baltimore) Community Information Now (CINow) (San Antonio) Neighborhood Nexus (Atlanta)
September 2024
In late 2023 the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) launched an Impact Storytelling Fellowship to support NNIP partner staff with developing an impact story. Three Impact Fellows were selected to receive technical assistance and develop an impact story. They worked through the first half of 2024, defining impact ideas for their stories and talking to community partners to document evidence of impact.
