Economic Development

A panel discussion about economic development, which brought together documents and information with informed panelists on issues of importance to Hartford and the Region.

As anchor institutions, Camden’s eight higher education and health care institutions play a large role in the City’s revitalization. CamConnect recently partnered with these institutions to collect and analyze key human capital, physical capital, budget, and services metrics. The work culminated with a report detailing employment trends, analysis of the economic impact, and overall effect on the community. CamConnect will continue collecting and analyzing these metrics on a biannual basis.
 

Begun in 2011, this dashboard is TALENT 2025’s “go to” data source for the monitoring of ongoing improvement efforts around two major goals; (1) to achieve 60% post-secondary attainment in the 25 years of age or older West Michigan workforce by 2025 and (2) to achieve 30% attainment of 4 year college degrees or beyond in the 25 years of age workforce by 2024. The primary audience for this project is 50 CEO’s of companies in West Michigan with interest in early childhood, K-12, Higher Education and Adult Workforce issues.

Working with the Congress of Neighboring Communities (CONNECT) at the University of Pittsburgh, we are seeking to expand the coverage of the PNCIS to additional municipalities in Allegheny County by developing a sustainable model for gathering and using data across multiple jurisdictions.

The Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action is working with the Shelby County Department of Planning and Development and the Greater Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce to evaluate property condition and create an asset inventory for an area branded “Airport City,” surrounding the Memphis International Airport.  In partnership with the Center for Community, Criminology and Research (C3R), CBANA analysts are focusing on multifamily housing, commercial, retail and warehousing in the 37,000 parcel area, with a special emphasis on community safety and Crime Prevention Through Environ

The Historic Aerial Mapper allows users to view how Rhode Island has changed over the last 70 years. Utilizing photos from the RI Geographic Information System, this tool allows users to zoom to a neighborhood and browse through photos taken as far back as 1939.

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.

In 2011, the Hudson-Webber Foundation assembled representatives of Data Driven Detroit, the Downtown Detroit Partnership, the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, Midtown Detroit, Inc., and D:hive to explore the production of a report about the Greater Downtown Detroit area. The project was driven by the need for relevant information for potential investors in the area. Data Driven Detroit provides technical support for the report on topics including greenways, public spaces, grocery stores, cultural institutions, schools, and demographics.

The Community Research Institute has released the first phase of Community Profiles 2.0 for the Grand Rapids area. This phase aims to build upon CRI's existing work in housing and economics within the City of Grand Rapids.

City Camp KC, Kansas CIty's annual civic unconference occurred this year on May 31, to coordinate with the National Day of Civic Hacking.  The theme was Startups and the City, and topics included startup communities, ridesharing, the DIY city, Code For America Brigade, open civic data, women in tech and startups, the wired city, civic tech, social media and advocacy, adaptive reuse, and the tech workforce.  The National Day of Civic Hacking activities included helping increase digital literacy.

Capital One philanthropic mission includes a comprehensive giving program to help build the future of communities for Capital One’s customers and associates across the U.S. These programs, known as Placed Based Initiatives (PBI), can be found in communities in Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Each PBI offers support and development based on the community’s individual and unique needs through strong, collaborative partnerships with organizations, businesses, and community members within the neighborhood.

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.

Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas (located approximately 60 miles North of Dallas) will be hosting their annual Public Administration Symposium on November 12, 2015. In addition to a keynote by Reginald Hatter, executive director of Workshop Houston, the symposium will include an afternoon panel discussion titled "Combining Nonprofit Passion & Academic Research into Smart Urban Planning." This panel will include Director Timothy Bray and Associate Director Anthony Galvan of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at the University of Texas at Dallas.

"Can San Francisco Get Mixed-Income Public Housing Redevelopment Right?" by NIMC's Mark Joseph and co-authors Nancy Latham, Rachel G. Kleit and Steven LaFrance discusses how the HOPE SF program is aiming to explicitly avoid many of the problems mixed-income public housing redevelopments have faced, to create a truly inclusive process.

The annual USC Price Center conference magnifies the impact of social innovators by bringing them together with change leaders from around the world in a common pursuit of equality of opportunity for children and families in marginalized urban communi

The Greater Hartford Neighborhood Data Hub program, managed by DataHaven, is designed to support the more effective curation, collection, sharing, and use of local-level cross-sector data within Hartford. This public service program creates a sustainable and independent entity to measure improved outcomes and reduced inequities using accurate and impartial data on the region and its neighborhoods.

Across the Indianapolis region, neighborhoods have experienced rapid cultural changes and shifting housing demand. In June, The Polis Center facilitated a community conversation about neighborhood-level demographic changes across the region from 1970 to today, exploring the trends of suburbanization, gentrification, and suburban redevelopment.

Through workshops, community feedback and an interactive data walk, a Houston Community Data Connections team empowered Third Ward community members and other stakeholders to use data from a multi-phase comprehensive needs assessment to pursue priorities in the neighborhood.