Equity
Urban Institute is excited to announce the NNIP partners in Boston, Durham, New Haven, and San Antonio selected through a competitive Request for Proposals for $50,000 subgrants from the NNIP...
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The DataHaven Town Equity Reports provide access to relevant town-level information that is not available from any...
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CT Data hosts the Equity in Data Community of Practice, which is comprised of data users in Connecticut who are supporting one another in working towards more equitable data...
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Pittsburgh NNIP partner, the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center, is part of a committed team bringing participatory data governance to the City of Pittsburgh. The Black Equity Coalition (...
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Urban Institute ( NNIP Coordinator )
The Data Center ( New Orleans )
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 ...
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in partnership with the Urban Institute, has selected 38 organizations from around the country for the...
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Since 2022, the CT Data Collaborative has managed the Hartford Youth Data Fellowship - a program for Hartford youth ages 17-24 that provides them with tools and experiences...
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Data Driven Detroit (D3) ( Detroit )
University Center for Social and Urban Research ( Pittsburgh )
Neighborhood Nexus ( Atlanta )
DataWorks NC ( Durham )
The CDC Foundation has...
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The Polis Center ( Indianapolis )
Innovate Memphis ( Memphis )
Urban Strategies Council ( Oakland )
The Urban Institute and the Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative are...
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In 2015, the IU Fairbanks School of Public Health (FSPH) and The Polis Center published an issue brief,...
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Researchers and data analysts are taught to protect research subjects in primary data collection, but data can be used to harm people and communities beyond that stage of the data life cycle....
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Children's Optimal Health received a competitive grant from Good Measure to look at digital access, including device, internet access and necessary skills needed for education, health care, and...
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Urban–Greater DC team members are partnering with the High Line Network (HLN) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design for a one-year pilot project, Equitable Impacts Framework pilot (EIF...
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NNIP’s mission is to ensure all communities have access to data and the skills to use data to advance equity and well-being across neighborhoods. From NNIP’s founding in 1996 to today - Partners’...
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Communities Count also offers data and evaluation trainings to support the...
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The Data Center ( New Orleans )
DataHaven ( New Haven - Connecticut )
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute awarded $2 million to 10 organizations...
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DataHaven is 1 of 10 organizations awarded grants to spur local conversations around the recently released national data set on geographic distributions of health disparities and life expectancy,...
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The Data Center is 1 of 10 organizations awarded grants to spur local conversations around on the recently released national data set on geographic distributions of health disparities and life...
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The Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson (RWJF) are partnering on a series of research and engagement activities to expand the knowledge and examples of how communities can use data to advance...
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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...
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Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance ( Baltimore )
(Inactive) Thoughtwell ( Columbus )
Urban Strategies Council ( Oakland )
Local governments should engage with data intermediary organizations, such as the members of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, to more effectively identify priority issues, find...
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Metroscape’s Winter 2018 edition launched with a panel discussion on nonagricultural uses of Oregon farmland....
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Urban Institute recently released two new guidance documents to to build the capacity of communities to use data to address health and improve fair housing and access to opportunity. Both guides...
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In May 2017, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership conferred the inaugural G. Thomas Kingsley Impact Award to the Center for Urban Affairs (CURA) ...
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NNIP Partners shared lessons with nonprofit and advocacy organizations participating in the Citi...
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The General Assembly of the United Nations has proclaimed the theme for the 2015-2024 decade: "People of African descent: recognition, justice, and development." As part of the events associated...
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Urban Strategies Council has been a supporter of the My Brother's Keeper (MBK) Community Challenge and involved in the initial discussions since former...
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The P16Plus Council of Greater Bexar County (http://www.p16plus.org/), serves as the backbone organization and facilitator for My Brother’s Keeper San Antonio...
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Facing Race: A National Conference is presented by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. It will be held in Dallas, Texas on November 13-...
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On November 8th, 2014, the Institute for Urban Policy Research in conjunction with several other organizations in the area, hosted the first ever youth summit dedicated to exploring the topics of...
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Urban Strategies Council is in the planning stages for a comparative analysis using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data of selected California cities in collaboration with the Greenlining...
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Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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We're now starting to work with ArcGIS.com and some of the other ESRI Web mapping tools here in Pittsburgh. Some of the earliest maps we have released relate to Allegheny County's property...
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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 ...
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We expect to release the methodological information and data for 2-3 key health indicators in a technical report this summer. Health inequities have typically been measured using single point-in-...
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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...
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In partnership with the Oakland Unified School District, we launched the ambitious AAMAI to support black boys in our public school system and to reduce all gaps in outcomes for these boys. We are...
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In fall of 2010, an equity ordinance was passed that codifies the cross-county equity initiative and expands the work to include all separately elected offices and branches (courts, prosecuting...
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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...
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In 2010, the National Kidney Foundation Michigan (NKFM) was awarded a grant to address health disparities in the African American community in Inkster. During Phase I of the grant in 2010, NKFM...
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Through a new regional transit-oriented development collaborative, Mile High Connects, supported through the Ford Foundation’s Metropolitan Opportunities Initiative, Piton, partnered with...
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A database of baseline measures to assess progress in equity across King County departments was developed by Public Health in collaboration with other departments. The measures will...
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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...
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Urban Strategies Council facilitated, with the Oakland Unified School District, a nine-month planning process with the multi-stakeholder Full Service Community Task Force. We produced a...
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On October 15, 2010, HUD Regional Administrator Richard Walega announced a $4 million Press conference announcing award of Sustainable Communities grant to MAPCSustainable Communities Grant award...
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D3 prepared a profile of the M1 Corridor along Woodward for the Downtown Detroit Partnership. The profile is a collection of baseline indicators intended to inform current planning efforts and...
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Turning the Corner: Monitoring Neighborhood Change to Prevent Displacement piloted a research model in five cities to monitor neighborhood change,...
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Our legacy of racism in US policies and practice – before and through emancipation, reconstruction, and Jim Crow – has sustained a distressing gap in wealth. Specific systemic actions and...
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Data Driven Detroit (D3), in partnership with the Urban Institute, is working under contract to the Office of Minority Health (OMH) to provide technical assistance to two sites with the aim to...
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Detroit
Community Innovation and Action Center (CIAC)
St. Louis
Neighborhood Data for Social Change
Los Angeles
DataHaven
New Haven - Connecticut
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The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a peer-learning network of more than 30 cities who have been working to democratize data for equitable and resilient communities for 25...
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NNIP co-hosted a moderated panel with team members from the StriveTogether's Racial and Ethnic Equity Action Team to discuss their guide and implementation process on systems indicators.The...
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In this webinar of the Urban Waters Learning Network series on gentrification and displacement, they explore different ways data is being used by communities and decision-makers to understand...
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On May 30th at 10am Pacific, Urban Strategies Council and the Oakland Unified School...
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