Jeff Matson and Oriane Casale present an overview (PDF) of the Census Bureau's Local Employment Dynamics (LED) data and applications for visualizing and mapping the data. Francisca Winston describes how and why (PDF) the Local Intiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is using the LED data.
As work requirements and time limits of welfare reform went into effect around the country, decisionmakers needed reliable information at a local scale about the opportunities and challenges confronting welfare-recipients as they attempted to find jobs and achieve economic independence. This report, the first cross-site study to take advantage of local data from NNIP partners, presents an analysis based on data from five metropolitan areas.
BNIA-JFI provided a variety of data and resources to Public Policy students at Johns Hopkins University in their analysis of the impacts of the national recession on Baltimore’s neighborhoods. Results of the analyses were presented in a lecture series and covered by various media outlets. The final reports are being published by Johns Hopkins University.
(Inactive) The Neighborhoods Resource Center (Nashville)
May 2011
NRC continued to improve GettingtoWork.Net, a website showing job training and services needed by low-income job seeker and an interactive map showing the locations of services, child care, transit lines, groceries, etc.
Mapping interface improvements with Mappler used the Google Maps API and have a familiar “look and feel” to users. [See GettingToWork.COM for draft site, to be transferred to GettingToWork.NET.] Final improvements are awaiting notice of funding from Jobs Access and Reverse Commute program of the Federal Transit Administration.
NeighborhoodInfoDC has been providing data and analysis supporting the new Kids Count grantee (DC Action for Children). We released the first of a series of policy briefs based on the 2010 Census in April 27, 2011, entitled “A Tale of Three Cities: What the Census Tells Us and How We Must Repond.”
D3 is conducting a workforce development study on behalf of Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit. The purpose of the study is to investigate emerging occupations and growth sectors in the Detroit labor market, explore skills shortages in these emerging sectors, and identify skills training opportunities. By doing so, D3 will provide the knowledge and information to enable Goodwill to enhance their education, training and employment strategies for program participants.
The RI DataHUB is a multi-agency longitudinal data system for anyone interested in the well-being of people in Rhode Island. The DataHUB brings together data sets from multiple federal, state and local sources. Data are currently gathered from local partnering public agencies including: the RI Department of Education (RIDE), the RI Department of Health (HEALTH), the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education (RIBGHE), the RI Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), and Providence Public Schools (PPSD).
We are building an opensource local resource directory to replace our current asset service provider system. This is a Rails based app built on the Heroku platform and will be rapidly deployable in other cities with different focuses.
The app allows for basic service searching by custimizable categories, user management of local service provider data and location based filtering and searching. The default will allow for lanugage based service filtering also in a Yelp like interface.
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.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
June 2013 - December 2015
The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development (CUPCD), based at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, is working with the Ohio Longitudinal Data Archive (OLDA) at Ohio State University’s Ohio Education Research Center to understand how involvement in the foster care and juvenile justice systems affect high school graduation and early adult outcomes.
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.
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County Opportunity Youth Initiative.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
October 2, 2014
Professor Mark Chupp is one of several distinguished experts on a panel for a civic forum, “The Three Forms of Capital: Why Human and Social Capital are the Building Blocks for Healthy, Stable Societies.” It is an eve
On behalf a broad collaborative of organizations convened by the United Way of Comal County, CI:Now is conducting a broad secondary data assessment of community needs in Comal and Guadalupe Counties, with a special focus on health.
In May 2014, D3 launched the 2014 One D Scorecard, an online tool that reports on the status of our region through key data indicators in five Priority Areas: Economic Prosperity, Educational Preparedness, Quality of Life, Social Equity, and Regional Transit. The One D Index also rolls up the over 30 outcome-based indicators composing the five Priority areas into a single comprehensive score to better understand how metro Detroit stacks up across priority areas and other regions overall.
In partnership with Rhode Island's Department of Labor and Training, ProvPlan is integrating workforce and unemployment data into the RI DataHUB to examine workforce related policy issues. Our first "Data Story" is expected to be published in early April 2015.
From 2014 to 2018, the Civic Tech and Data Collaborative (CTDC) brought together local government officials, civic technologists, and community data organizations across seven communities to explore how to harness data and technology to benefit low-income residents. Three national organizations with local networks - Living Cities, Code for America, and the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership – guided the initiative Local collaboratives in Boston, St. Louis, and Washington, DC created products that use data and technology in new ways to improve services or programs in their cities.
Institute for Urban Policy Research (Dallas) Data Driven Detroit (D3) (Detroit) (Inactive) Shift Research Lab (Denver*)
October 2015
On October 20th, one day prior to the opening of the Fall NNIP meeting, the Institute for Urban Policy Research, Capital One, and the Collin County Business Alliance (CCBA) convened a group of experts to discuss regional planning and the future of Collin County, which includes most of Dallas' northern suburbs.
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 ...
CI:Now’s new Viz-a-lyzer is an interactive tool for people to visually explore and analyze (visual… viz… viz-a-lyze… get it?) Bexar County data by zip code tract area and year, with comparisons to Bexar County, Texas, and the United States where available. We’ll be adding new indicators and features several times a year – subscribe to our newsletter to hear when a new release is out.
As part of the Civic Tech and Data Collaborative, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council worked with the City of Boston's Division of Youth Engagement and Employment (DYEE) to make the city’s summer job program more accessible to Bost
