New NNIP guide offers five-stage process for involving students in community data services
This guide provides strategies for assessing opportunities for student involvement, developing a recruitment strategy, designing an onboarding process, guiding quality student work, and encouraging retention and ongoing relationships.
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NNIP Welcomes DePaul's Institute for Housing Studies as its Chicago Partner
Learn about how Institute provides insights on neighborhood and housing conditions and collaborates with local nonprofits, government, and philanthropy to tackle community issues.
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NNIP Partners Gather in Los Angeles
Check out the materials from the NNIP Partners' meeting on affordable housing and homelessness, transportation and equity, trends in using social media, and more.
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The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
Coordinated by the Urban Institute, NNIP consists of organizations in 32 cities that share a mission to help community stakeholders use neighborhood data for better decisionmaking, with a focus on working with low-income communities.
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Metropolitan Area Planning Council and The Boston Foundation are our partner organizations from Boston, MA. Learn more about how they are using data to bring about positive change in their neighborhoods.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in August 2017, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University had built relationships and data resources that enabled their team to quickly pivot to meet emerging needs of the community and conduct a needs assessment for hurricane relief funds.
CI:Now mapped data by neighborhood to show geographic inequities in health outcomes and to inform the Bexar County Community Health Needs Assessment.
Activities
Date: January 2019
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At the request of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which funds the KIDS COUNT network, the authors conducted research to explore how these state data efforts couldbring greater benefits...
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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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