(Inactive) Center for Economic Information* (Kansas City)
April 2020
University of Missouri-Kansas City’s (UMKC) Center for Neighborhoods, a collaborator with the NNIP partner Center for Economic Information, has launched a new initiative called Social Connecting/Physical Distancing. Center for Neighborhoods staff are holding on-line workshops for volunteer neighborhood leaders with university expertise on disaster recovery efforts and the use of tech to overcome social isolation. It also includes a survey to identify core issues for neighborhood leadership and governance during this crisis.
Urban Institute staff are convening NNIP current and potential partners to exchange ideas and activities on how local data can help local communities' response to COVID-19. The network has collected examples on an informal spreadsheet
CI:NOW reframed the gloomy conversation around the COVID-19 outbreak to a message of thanks to the community members who are sheltering at home to protect their families and neighbors. Their analysis, presented in an infographic, shows 1,271 lives were saved in San Antonio in the first week of the Stay-At-Home order by individuals limiting contact with others. CI:NOW shared their methods and infographic with the NNIP Partner network and inspired four other communities to create similar infographics to remind their community members of how much good they do by sheltering at home.
In collaboration with United Way of Greater Austin, Children's Optimal Health (COH) created a set of maps showing 211 requests for assistance across Austin’s multi-county MSA region. The 211 service, run by United Way in many communities, is a place residents can call for help when they are experiencing hardship, which has particularly become relevant in the COVID-19 outbreak crisis. In Texas, the governor publicly identified 211 as the place residents should call for assistance.
The COVID-19 pandemic has lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, causing financial hardships for many people and battering economies for local communities. All of this is disproportionately affecting people of color and those with low incomes. This crisis has also revealed and magnified gaps in data and information that need to be addressed for communities to take informed action in pandemic response and recovery.
See all NNIP items related to the issues: COVID-19, Youth
Samantha Batko and Ajjit Narayanan from the Urban Institute presented on the Emergency Rental Assistance Prioritization Index Tool. The tool is intended to take a look at neighborhood-level conditions to help community leaders prioritize allocation of rental assistance funds and looking at extremely low income renters.
Data Driven Detroit has been examining the impact of COVID-19 on education and employment in a blog series. Most recently, they have been analyzing how schools and childcare facilities are responding to pandemic-related regulations and precautions.
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• Amy Carroll-Scott and Danny Galpern from the Urban Health Collaborative (Philadelphia) discussed their COVID Urban Vulnerability Dashboard and how they highlight systems of oppression and geographic patterns of health inequities.
As the local Evaluator for JP Morgan Chase’s (JPMC) PRO Neighborhoods program, Innovate Memphis is analyzing and measuring the Memphis Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Network’s grant program. The 4-year program provides direct capital to CDFI lenders but also improves the capacity of Memphis CDFIs to collaborate and create similar lending intake processes and measurement tools to produce.
Memphis’ local StriveTogether organization, Seeding Success is a cradle to career backbone organization that seeks to ensure every child has the support and resources they need to succeed. COVID-19 and remote learning complicated that matter significantly. In collaboration with Innovate Memphis’ data team, they provide geospatial elements to the Shelby County Schools (SCS). Innovate Memphis connected student level data on internet technology (hotspots and devices received), school attended, neighborhood lived in, and much other neighborhood lev
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 jobs especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study will focus on people and families with lower incomes across the 5 county Austin MSA using mixed methods including surveys, focus groups and key informant interviews, as well as mapping pertinent data from the American Community Survey and other sources. The study will consider areas of concern related to disproportionality of internet access.
Harnessing interdisciplinary expertise and perspectives, the Black Equity Coalition (BEC) in Pittsburgh successfully used data to advocate for programs and policies to decrease racial disparities in COVID-19 response and created a forum to tackle other health inequities. The group of predominantly Black leaders formed the BEC in spring 2020 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic's disparate impact on Allegheny County's Black community.
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 ...
What happens when quality data are put in the hands of changemakers? As Amy Carroll-Scott shared, “Data doesn’t change lives, advocates armed with data do.” Drexel University’s Urban Health Collaborative (UHC) used their expertise as a data intermediary to support the data needs of frontline practitioners, community-based organizations, and city agencies and elected officials during the COVID-19 crisis.
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 ...
Black, Indigenous, and people of color experience worse social, economic, and health outcomes in King County, Washington. A long history and persistence of structural racism causes these disparities among racial and ethnic groups and neighborhoods.
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 ...
