Data and Tech Training Catalog
In 2016, NNIP and Microsoft’s Civic Technology Engagement Group launched a project to expand training on community data and technology for government and nonprofit staff members. It includes a brief summarizing the training landscape and action steps for various stakeholders, a guide for organizations interested in providing training, and a fact sheet summarizing results from a survey on current content and practices.
This catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy. It includes descriptions and downloadable materials for primarily in-person trainings that have been conducted by local data intermediaries, nonprofits, universities, government agencies, and others. We encourage you to browse and adapt the materials to embark on training for your own community. If you would like to contribute a course to the catalog, send a note to [email protected].
Unless otherwise noted, this materials contributed to this catalog are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which means you can share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material).
Logic Models: How to Integrate Data Collection into Your Everyday Work
Coaches local nonprofit program staff to understand how to create and measure outcomes using national and local data sources
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Logic Models: What They Are And How They Can Help
Learning the basics of logic models
Communities of Opportunity
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Navigating the Quality of Life Explorer
Offers detailed exercises for navigating the local website to access local data
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Our Data, Our Analysis
Basic introduction to data and quantitative analysis
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Out of the Spreadsheet and Into the Community
Introduces data to nontechnical audiences using open-source tools and creative approaches
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Performance Analytics: Tools & Techniques
Provides local government employees foundational skills to understand and implement open data and performance analytics programs in their communities
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Performing a Community-Based Assessment
Offers a well-documented curriculum for using qualitative and quantitative data to conduct a community needs assessment
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Process Evaluation
Basics of data collection methods
Communities of Opportunity
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Research Justice for All
Learning to center community knowledge to achieve research justice
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Step-by-step guides on simple technology to better serve voters, candidates, and poll workers
Includes a wide range of introductory training documents for work-specific tasks like social media management, Excel, and Google Forms
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The Basics: Focus Groups, Listening Sessions And Interviews
Learning about implementing focus groups
Communities of Opportunity
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Data Science for Social Good
Provides a comprehensive toolkit to build a data-based project for social good
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Using Census Data for Grant Writing and Community and Neighborhood Analysis
Teaches participants about using both local and national data sets like the American Community Survey and Decennial Census to inform their work, such as understanding the demographics of their service areas.
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National Data Source
Work-related Task
Using Data to Improve Health Services
Includes explanation of demographic and health data and best practices for using data to create community profiles
Sheila Martin
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Using SAVI to Support Grant Applications
Teaches participants how data from a local data website can support stronger grant applications
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Using Small Area Data
Shares the importance of neighborhood context in understanding client needs and teaches how to geocode client data and map it alongside neighborhood indicators
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Evaluation / Program Mgmt.
We Can Be Surveyors
Learning to include community in survey design
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Who’s in Your Neighborhood? Using American FactFinder
Introduces participants to American FactFinder as a tool to find local data relevant to their work
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