Boston Indicators Project staff are is working with the Boston Foundation’s Strategy Leaders to develop interim and “desired end state” measures to assist in refining strategies and assessing impact at the neighborhood scale as well as citywide systems change and state policy in education and workforce development, community safety, housing, health and economic development. Dynamic dashboards and scorecards to track progress are being developed using the Weave data visualization platform.
The Institute has been engaged by the Dallas Faith Communities Coalition, a non-profit working in the West Dallas neighborhoods, to develop a set of common performance and outcome metrics for the non-profits participating in the Coalition’s West Dallas Community Collaborative. In addition to employing the methodologies piloted by the Urban Institute and What Works, we will also be conducting a community quality of life survey, executed largely by community volunteers.
In late 2010, the Urban Strategies Council and Oakland Unified School District, in partnership with the East Bay Community Foundation, launched a bold new initiative aimed at addressing the disparities in educational and social outcomes for African American males in Oakland. This six-year initiative has been established with a set of seven key goals that reflect the massive disparities faced by young black males in our city and a set of strategies aimed at improving those outcomes and eliminating most disparities within six years.
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African American Male Achievment Initiative (AAMAI)
(Inactive) Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action (Memphis)
April 2012
Originally funded by a grant from the US Department of Justice and designed by CBANA/C3R (working with the Southeast Memphis CDC and Ledic Asset Management) , “Safeways” is a data-driven supportive collaboration among owner/managers, residents, law enforcement, and non-profits to improve safety and quality of life in multifamily housing communities. Owners/managers access training and technical assistance in place management and resident services, and may apply for Safeways Certification.
InfoWorks is a collaborative effort between the Rhode Island Department of Education and The Providence Plan. The InfoWorks site is designed as user-friendly, easily accessible resource for anyone interested in Rhode Island's schools. Available data includes achievement results, demographics, funding, and opinion data.
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County Opportunity Youth Initiative.
Residents and partners of 18 Charlotte neighborhoods attended the 4th annual Neighborhood Board Retreat where they set goals and developed ideas for projects to strengthen their neighborhoods. The event was hosted by the City of Charlotte’s Department of Neighborhood & Business Services and sponsored by the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. As part of the facilitated planning, each neighborhood received a customized data profile containing a snapshot of variables from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life Study,
Researchers from UT Dallas are partnering with Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support and the Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) in a planning grant to develop an institute and an educational curriculum to better serve victims of domestic violence across Texas. The 18-month grant brings together the Genesis team and UT Dallas’ Institute for Urban Policy Research (IUPR) to analyze all aspects of developing an Institute for Coordinated Community Response.
Jake Cowan, NNIP alumni and consultant, presented on the completed "Monitoring Impact" guide. The guidebook frames defining and measuring performance for local data intermediaries, based on two key concepts – impact through positive influence and performance management. Jake was joined by Sheila Martin (Portland) and Erica Raleigh (Detroit) who shared their perspectives on performance management.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
October 16, 2015
In 2014, NNIP issued a guidebook, Monitoring Impact: Performance Management for Local Data Intermediaries, offering a conceptual framework for this work and suggesting a menu of applicable techniques. Now, Jake Cowen and Bob Gradeck have developed a new tool that can directly support the implementation of the approach by NNIP Partners, specifically in performance management for their Community Indicators Projects.
This session was conducted by NeighborhoodInfo DC for a group of local area nonprofits who are partipating in the Measure4Change learning community. The purpose of the session was to show groups how accessing data outside of their organization could be valuable to help them assess the needs of the populations and communities they are serving and to report on their results.
This training for local service-providing nonprofits in the Measure4Change learning community was adapted from "Data 101: Finding Stories in Data,” training materials develped by Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center & Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and provided at the
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
April 2018
IMS director Sheila Martin has joined the board of the Innovation Quadrant (IQ) and is developing a data strategy to measure its impact, both within and outside the geographic boundaries of the IQ.
Community Information Now (CI:Now, the NNIP partner for San Antonio) is supporting United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County as it leads the community in creating a future where young children are ready to learn, youth are prepared for the workforce, and families are economically stable. By tracking key data points together, United Way and their grantees will uncover how well they are reaching their goals through their $15 million dollars in annual investments and adjust their strategies over time.
Urban Institute is excited to announce the NNIP partners in Boston, Durham, New Haven, and San Antonio selected through a competitive Request for Proposals for $50,000...
