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To enhance communities' ability to improve outcomes for people and places, foundations can promote the use of data by grantees, champion community data resources and capacity, and invest directly in building community-wide capacity.

Drawing on lessons from the Turning the Corner project, this guide offers a starting point for researchers, policymakers, and organizers to monitor neighborhood change, prevent displacement, and promote inclusive development.

With a framework for building trust, philanthropy can counter the historic lack of community engagement and transparency in data use and help the public sector make programs and policies more ethical, effective, and sustainable.