In October 2011, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis convened nearly 200 participants to a symposium on neighborhood indicators and data‐driven strategies. The symposium was focused around the St. Louis Neighborhood Market DrillDown, alternative, strength-based market data created in partnership with Social Compact for the entirety of St. Louis City and North St.
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.
Capital One philanthropic mission includes a comprehensive giving program to help build the future of communities for Capital One’s customers and associates across the U.S. These programs, known as Placed Based Initiatives (PBI), can be found in communities in Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Each PBI offers support and development based on the community’s individual and unique needs through strong, collaborative partnerships with organizations, businesses, and community members within the neighborhood.
On Thursday, March 15, the Sunlight Foundation hosted The State of Open Government, a series of panels and talks about open government at the federal level as well as open data projects in the District of Columbia.
Joining them to discuss federal challenges were some of the nation’s foremost experts on ethics and open government, including:
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.
