Audio to come soon. Presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Reinventing Older Communities Conference with CityCourced and Code for America/Open Plans staff on new ways to encourage innovation with information in a modern US city. Focused heavily on the benefits and strategies of OpenData to support engagement, accountaiblity, investment growth and new business incubation.
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Presentation on Civic Innovation at the Fed Res Philly Conference
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 traces its origins to a series of locally-based efforts conducted over the past two decades to gather information about well-being in Connecticut neighborhoods.
The Urban Waters project, funded by the US Forestry Service, will involve the collection, aggregation, and analysis open space and community garden information for Baltimore City. BNIA-JFI will use this information to create an indicator and interactive mapping website of community gardens in Baltimore City.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
March 6, 2012
The Poverty Center's Neighborhood Stabilization Team Web Application (NST Web App) was selected as a Leadership in Community Innovation Award finalist. Four finalist groups competed for the award which included $25,000, funded by Key Bank, to go toward continuing projects. While the Center did not win the final award, it was an honor for the NST Web App to be recognized and selected as a finalist.
The Urban Innovation Exchange is an initiative to showcase and advance Detroit’s growing social innovation movement. Data Driven Detroit serves as the data partner for UIX.
Funded by SCRCOG, and led by SCRCOG, the New Haven NAACP, and Workforce Alliance, the Transportation Study examined the link between transportation and employment, including commuter patterns, bus system reach, barriers to employment, demographics, customer service perceptions, and regional urban development. The Study includes focus groups, surveys, and a public engagement component.
Funded by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, the Immigration Study, "Understanding the Impact of Immigration in Greater New Haven," examines patterns in immigration in the Greater New Haven and Connecticut area over the past few decades, as well as the impact of immigration on the region's economy and civic life. Compiling data from state and federal sources as well as local surveys, the report serves as a public resource and data compendium on the issue.
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
Institute for Urban Policy Research (Dallas) (Inactive) Children's Optimal Health (Austin*) (Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
Institute for Urban Policy Research (Dallas) (Inactive) Children's Optimal Health (Austin*) (Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
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NNIP Partners Meeting, October 2014
(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.
Throughout 2014, D3 partnered with Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) to create the d[COM]munity interactive mapping tool designed to collect data on community groups, block clubs and other organizations operating in the City of Detroit and display these data with a public facing interactive web based map tool. d[COM]munity has two main components: a web based survey instrument to gather organizations’ information and an interactive map tool allowing organizations to define their service area by drawing on a map.
In 2014, D3’s Prototype project, ConCensus, had two overarching goals: (1) to deepen our methods of community engagement and (2) learn about the needs and challenges around tools for collecting and accessing place-based primary data. D3 initiated a six-month outreach to organizations to examine how communities currently access data and to identify the types of data that would better support their mission-driven work.
One of the most important new means for sharing data with the public is our Open Data Site, launched in “beta” form in the spring of 2014. We have been using the tool to publish existing data in our warehouse, prioritizing new content uploads as data requests come from the community through “Ask D3” and as project-related files are completed. We leveraged the Motor City Mapping project to strengthen our ability to provide accessible data to the community at large.
In 2009, Data Driven Detroit (D3) participated in the Detroit Residential Parcel Survey (DRPS), collecting data on roughly 350,000 structures and vacant lots in the city of Detroit. The survey captured information on the physical condition of Detroit’s residential neighborhoods and empty lots. Eventually, passage of time rendered the DRPS dataset less representative of current conditions in the city and thus less useful for decision-makers. In the winter of 2013, the Motor City Mapping project once again undertook the collection of parcel-level data in Detroit. Using teams of resident s
With the Motor City Mapping project providing the best available information about vacancy and blight in Detroit, the city of Detroit now needs to look beyond sheer numbers. Blight removal in Detroit must occur in geographic areas of concentration, rather than the scattered, habitually random, approaches of the past. Addressing blight holistically within specific geographies stops the blight from spreading, treats it, and then creates a strong base for current residents to realize the future.
In collaboration with King County school districts, Public Health – Seattle & King County is developing school district health profiles that will inform school administrators and policy-makers, health and wellness planners, and the public about school health indicators. The primary data source for the reports is the Healthy Youth Survey (HYS), administered every 2 years to 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. Each profile includes:
DataHaven is piloting the World Health Organization's (WHO) Age Friendly Communities Indicator Guide for Connecticut. The pilot study is supported by Connecticut's Legislative Commission on Aging, Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, and Connecticut Community Foundation.
In Spring, 2014 the Dallas Police Department and The Trinity Trust, a local nonprofit, engaged the Institute for Urban Policy Research to assess community perceptions of safety in Dallas public parks and recreation spaces. Through a series of surveys, the public was asked to rate the importance of different quality of life factors based on recreational experiences.
For more than 30 years, the institute’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Annual Survey has been a resource for local governments and nonprofit agencies to affordably assess community attitudes about issues important to their work.
The 2016 Connecticut Civic Health Index is a report published under the auspices of the National Conference of Citizenship (NCOC), in partnership with Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill, Everyday Democracy, DataHaven, and other members of the Connecticut Civic Health Advisory Group.
Working with the Valley Community Foundation and approximately 20 other local partners, DataHaven produced a baseline indicators report on the Lower Naugatuck Valley region in 2015. DataHaven is now working with these partners on a longer indicators report, which will also function as a Community Health Needs Assessment for the region. The longer report is scheduled for publication in mid-2016.
DataHaven is working with local partners to develop a comprehensive indicators program for Fairfield County and surrounding areas, utlizing various data sources including DataHaven's 2015 Community Wellbeing Survey, which interviewed approximately 17,000 residents statewide including over 5,000 in Fairfield County and surrounding areas.
Dornsife School of Public Health faculty and students will play an instrumental role in implementing a large new grant aimed at improving the education and developmental outcomes of children and youth living and attending school in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone.
The Metro Atlanta Speaks (MAS) public opinion survey gives elected, business and community leaders the knowledge they need to understand residents' perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the Atlanta region. It seeks to assess residents’ attitudes and opinions about key regional issues such as transportation, the economy, local and regional public education, regional and neighborhood quality of life, and aging. The MAS, inspired by the Houston area’s long-running Kinder Survey, is now in its fourth year.
The right data, in the right hands, can help advance action on tough issues like under-employment. For 25 years, DataHaven, a nonprofit in New Haven, Connecticut, has been the trusted source for data. DataHaven has been making neighborhood-level data from national sources and local administrative records available and helps community organizations, foundations and local governments use the information for community building, policymaking and advocacy.
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 ...
The Greater Hartford Neighborhood Data Hub program, managed by DataHaven, is designed to support the more effective curation, collection, sharing, and use of local-level cross-sector data within Hartford. This public service program creates a sustainable and independent entity to measure improved outcomes and reduced inequities using accurate and impartial data on the region and its neighborhoods.
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 by women in New London and Windham counties in the realms of economic security, education, health and well-being, and leadership.
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New report details inequities for women in eastern Connecticut
Dian Nostikasari, a senior research fellow at the Kinder Institute, discussed two reports titled “Planning from Inside Out: Using Community Responses to Address Transportation, Infrastructure and Safety Concerns” and “Safe Streets, Safe Communities: Walking and Biking Infrastructure in Gulfton.”
Through workshops, community feedback and an interactive data walk, a Houston Community Data Connections team empowered Third Ward community members and other stakeholders to use data from a multi-phase comprehensive needs assessment to pursue priorities in the neighborhood.
The Institute for Housing Policy is collaborating with local partners in Chicago to identify changing community needs and new priorities that have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and recent
In Baltimore, community efforts are often a cornerstone of ongoing programming or projects, and this often depends on the many community-based organizations (CBOs) throughout Baltimore. CBOs operate within a particular place and often have long-term expertise in a particular policy area and are led by members of the communities they serve.
Earlier this month, DataHaven and the Fairfield County, Greater Hartford, and Greater New Haven Community Foundations hosted a statewide event to release these landmark publications on quality of life. Each book contains nearly 100 pages of data graphics, maps, and tables, discussing the most meaningful social and economic issues that face Connecticut today, including family economic security, housing, health and safety, criminal justice, education, and much more.
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Mark Abraham
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DataHaven and partners release the 2023 Community Wellbeing Index at the Connecticut State Capitol
The DataHaven Town Equity Reports provide access to relevant town-level information that is not available from any other source. They use new methods to disaggregate data from the 2020 Census, American Community Survey microdata files, DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey record-level files from 2015 through 2021, and federal and state agency databases.
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2023 Equity Reports for all 169 Connecticut Towns, Join our statewide Advisory Council
Imagine if every town knew what share of their residents felt safe in their neighborhoods, were getting the medical care they need, or were struggling to cover household expenses because of inflation. Thanks to the DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey (DCWS), people in Connecticut have this—and much more information on other factors affecting individual and community well-being—to help them better advocate, plan, and set priorities.
Recent research shows trail networks help achieve climate resilience, improve public health, and increase economic prosperity. The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (...
