CURA was asked by a group of neighborhood organizations to measure the impact of proposed cuts in their share of city funding. The cuts would be used to decrease a proposed 7.5% property tax hike down to 3.7%. Maps were created showing which neighborhoods were most affected as well as which sought to gain from the tax savings. In addition the amount of money lost by neighborhoods were overlayed on maps of poverty and race to show the effects on disadvantaged communities.
This fact sheet, prepared for the Washington Area Women's Foundation, updates poverty data presented last year to coincide with the release of the Portrait of Women and Girls in the Washington Metropolitan Area report. Estimates are from the 2010 American Community Survey and document the increase in poverty rates for women and girls throughout the region, the high levels of poverty in the District of Columbia, and the dramatic growth in numbers of poor women and girls in suburban Prince George's County, Maryland.
(Inactive) Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action (Memphis)
March 10, 2012
As the curtain closed on the March 10, 2012 performance of “Hurt Village” at the Signature Theatre at Pershing Square in New York, patrons were invited to participate in a panel discussion moderated by award-winning journalist Esther Armah, which included Yale University sociologist Elijah Anderson, CBANA director and University of Memphis sociologist Phyllis Betts, director Patricia McGregor and playwrite Katori Hall (The Mountaintop, Hoodoo Love, and most recently, Hurt Village).
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.
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.
Over the next 12 months Public Health- Seattle & King County will be developing new data profiles for 22 cities and unincorporated areas of King County. The profiles will include up-to-date demographics and measures of behavioral risks, access to care, health status, fertility, birth risk factors and mortality. Presented in a series of charts and tables, measures for the city—and, if the city is large enough, each neighborhood-- will be compared to King County and Washington State averages.
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County Opportunity Youth Initiative.
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
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
September 30, 2014
With recent Census data indicating that 54 percent of children in the City of Cleveland live in poverty, the Cleveland Plain Dealer asked Dr Claudia Coulton about the relationship between poverty and health for “
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
October 3, 2014
Professor Anna Maria Santiagowill deliver her lecture, “Fifty Years Later: From a War on Poverty to a War on the Poor,” on Tuesday, October 7, at 3pm in the Senior Classroom of the Tinkham Veale University
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
January 2015
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Many Oregon households are not considered poor by the federal poverty level, but still don't earn enough income to meet their basic needs. Find out how basic socioeconomic factors affect the extent to which households earn enough to make ends meet in Oregon.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
January 2015
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Many Oregon households are not considered poor by the federal poverty level, but still don't earn enough income to meet their basic needs. Find out how basic socioeconomic factors affect the extent to which households earn enough to make ends meet in Oregon.
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.
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 late 2014 and early 2015, Rise contributed to the revision of the City of St. Louis' Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, collecting and interpreting a range of data on demographics, housing needs, and Racially/Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty, and drafting concrete action steps to alleviate impediments to fair housing.
In May and August, after partners expressed the desire for more interactions among partners between in-person meetings, we held our first two virtual idea showcases. It gave several partners the chance to share ideas and projects they were working on, and to connect with other interested partners after the webinar. Our second Idea Showcase of 2015 is back by popular demand!
NNIP HQ will start with a quick update on network activities, followed by a series of presentations from partners--
This session was conducted by NeighborhoodInfo DC for a group of local area nonprofits who are partipating in the Measure4Change learning community. The purpose of the session was to show groups how accessing data outside of their organization could be valuable to help them assess the needs of the populations and communities they are serving and to report on their results.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
November 3, 2015
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In the series "Toxic Neglect", the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been running stories on the problems of lead poisoning on young children. Dr. Robert Fischer, co-director of the Poverty Center, was interviewed for "Lead poisoning makes education harder for kids and teachers" on October 22, 2015.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
November 4, 2015
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In an editorial to the Cleveland Plain Dealer on November 1, Poverty Center Co-Director Dr. Rob Fischer discussed the magnitude of the problems from lead exposure on young children.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
November 9, 2015
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Using data from NEO CANDO, Michael Gareau Jr., director of law of North Olmsted, reported that foreclosures in the city have declined from 118 between January 1 through September 30, 2014 to only 65 during the same period of 2015. Gareau explained these findings to the North Olmsted city council on November 4 according to a Cleveland.com article.
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
For a more complete case study of this experience, see Chapter 6 of Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data, by G. Thomas Kingsley, Claudia J. Coulton and Kathryn L. S. Pettit (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2014)
Data Driven Detroit (D3), Urban Institute, The Data Center
Thursday, September 15, 2022 to Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Over the past two years, the NNIP Network has elevated how local data are critical tools for communities to address the racial wealth gap and improve racial ...
Data Driven Detroit (D3), Urban Institute, The Data Center
Thursday, September 15, 2022 to Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Over the past two years, the NNIP Network has elevated how local data are critical tools for communities to address the racial wealth gap and improve racial ...
Data Driven Detroit (D3), Urban Institute, The Data Center
Thursday, September 15, 2022 to Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Over the past two years, the NNIP Network has elevated how local data are critical tools for communities to address the racial wealth gap and improve racial ...
CI:Now’s new Viz-a-lyzer is an interactive tool for people to visually explore and analyze (visual… viz… viz-a-lyze… get it?) Bexar County data by zip code tract area and year, with comparisons to Bexar County, Texas, and the United States where available. We’ll be adding new indicators and features several times a year – subscribe to our newsletter to hear when a new release is out.
