Equity

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NNIP partners share a mission to ensure all communities have access to data and the skills to use information to advance equity and well-being across neighborhoods. Partners highlight and address inequities among different areas and racial groups and support stakeholders working towards more equitable solutions.
Related Activities:
Data Center Supports Equitable Wealth Building Collaboration in New Orleans
January 2023
The Data Center   (New Orleans)


Launched by the Urban League of Louisiana in Fall 2022, the SEE CHANGE... [read more]

The Pittsburgh Study: Child Health Equity Project
November 25, 2022
University Center for Social and Urban Research   (Pittsburgh)


... [read more]

New RWJF, Urban Grant Program Helps Communities Use Local Data to Address Structural Racism
September 2022 - June 2023
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)


The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in partnership with the Urban Institute, has selected 38 organizations from around the country for the... [read more]

Five NNIP partners participate in new CDC Foundation project on equitable use of data
March 1, 2022
Community Information Now (CI:Now)   (San Antonio)
Data Driven Detroit (D3)   (Detroit)
University Center for Social and Urban Research   (Pittsburgh)
Neighborhood Nexus   (Atlanta)
DataWorks NC   (Durham)


The CDC Foundation has... [read more]

Catalyst Grant Program: Using Data and Technology for an Equitable Justice System
December 1, 2021
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)
The Polis Center   (Indianapolis)
Innovate Memphis   (Memphis)
Urban Strategies Council   (Oakland)


The Urban Institute and the Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative are... [read more]

Worlds Apart 2.0: Gaps in Life Expectancy in Central Indiana
August 26, 2021
The Polis Center   (Indianapolis)


In 2015, the IU Fairbanks School of Public Health (FSPH) and The Polis Center published an issue brief,... [read more]

Centering Racial Equity in Data Use
August 2020
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)


Researchers and data analysts are taught to protect research subjects in primary data collection, but data can be used to harm people and communities beyond that stage of the data life cycle.... [read more]

Exploring Digital Equity in Austin
August 2020 - July 2021
Children's Optimal Health   (Austin*)


Children's Optimal Health received a competitive grant from Good Measure to look at digital access, including device, internet access and necessary skills needed for education, health care, and... [read more]

The Inequalities Behind COVID-19 Disparities for African Americans in Indianapolis
May 15, 2020
The Polis Center   (Indianapolis)


... [read more]

Urban Design and the Color-Line
2020
Urban–Greater DC   (Washington, D.C.)


Urban–Greater DC team members are partnering with the High Line Network (HLN) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design for a one-year pilot project, Equitable Impacts Framework pilot (EIF... [read more]

Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in NNIP
December 2019
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)


NNIP’s mission is to ensure all communities have access to data and the skills to use data to advance equity and well-being across neighborhoods. From NNIP’s founding in 1996 to today - Partners’... [read more]

Public Health Seattle-King County Supports Communities of Opportunity Place-Based Initiative
November 2019
Public Health - Seattle & King County   (Seattle)


Communities Count also offers data and evaluation trainings to support the... [read more]

Health Inequity Data Stories
October 2019 - August 2020
The Data Center   (New Orleans)


The Data Center is 1 of 10 organizations awarded grants to spur local conversations around on the recently released national data set on geographic distributions of health disparities and life... [read more]

Visualizing and Powering Healthy Lives
October 2019 - August 2020
Community Information Now (CI:Now)   (San Antonio)
The Data Center   (New Orleans)
DataHaven   (New Haven)


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute awarded $2 million to 10 organizations... [read more]

Pairing Life Expectancy Data with Resident Storytelling in Three Connecticut Communities
October 2019 - August 2020
DataHaven   (New Haven)


DataHaven is 1 of 10 organizations awarded grants to spur local conversations around the recently released national data set on geographic distributions of health disparities and life expectancy,... [read more]

Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation partner to build local capacity to use data to improve health and equity
January 2019
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)


The Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson (RWJF) are partnering on a series of research and engagement activities to expand the knowledge and examples of how communities can use data to advance... [read more]

Podcast: How Can Neighborhood-Level Data Improve Health and Equity?
November 26, 2018
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)


In this podcast, produced by ... [read more]

New report details inequities for women in eastern Connecticut
2018
DataHaven   (New Haven)


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... [read more]

CURA and Twin Cities' Equity Coalition Participate in All-In Cities Anti-Displacement Policy Network
March 2018
Center for Urban and Regional Affairs   (Minneapolis-St. Paul)


PolicyLink ... [read more]

NNIP Partners and Local Governments Work Together to Tackle Community Challenges
March 2018
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance   (Baltimore)
(Inactive) Thoughtwell   (Columbus)
Urban Strategies Council   (Oakland)


Local governments should engage with data intermediary organizations, such as the members of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, to more effectively identify priority issues, find... [read more]

Winter 2018 Metroscape Released
January 2018
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies   (Portland)


Metroscape’s Winter 2018 edition launched with a panel discussion on nonagricultural uses of Oregon farmland.... [read more]

New Guides Help Practitioners Use Data to Advance Health and Opportunity
June 2017 - August 2017
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)


Urban Institute recently released two new guidance documents to to build the capacity of communities to use data to address health and improve fair housing and access to opportunity. Both guides... [read more]

NNIP Recognizes Center for Urban and Regional Affairs for Advancing Neighborhood Equity in City Capital Investments
May 18, 2017
Center for Urban and Regional Affairs   (Minneapolis-St. Paul)


In May 2017, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership conferred the inaugural G. Thomas Kingsley Impact Award to the Center for Urban Affairs (CURA) ... [read more]

NNIP Partners Share Lessons on Equity and Community Capacity with Community Progress Maker Grantees
April 27, 2017 to July 24, 2017
Urban Institute   (NNIP Coordinator)


NNIP Partners shared lessons with nonprofit and advocacy organizations participating in the Citi... [read more]

Dallas partner to speak at United Nations about structural racism against people of African descent
November 2015
Institute for Urban Policy Research   (Dallas)


The General Assembly of the United Nations has proclaimed the theme for the 2015-2024 decade: "People of African descent: recognition, justice, and development." As part of the events associated... [read more]

My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge in Oakland
September 2015
Urban Strategies Council   (Oakland)


Urban Strategies Council has been a supporter of the My Brother's Keeper (MBK) Community Challenge and involved in the initial discussions since former... [read more]

My Brother's Keeper Challenge in San Antonio
September 2015
Community Information Now (CI:Now)   (San Antonio)


The P16Plus Council of Greater Bexar County (http://www.p16plus.org/), serves as the backbone organization and facilitator for My Brother’s Keeper San Antonio... [read more]

Southwestern Pennsylvania Community Profiles
June 5, 2015
University Center for Social and Urban Research   (Pittsburgh)


... [read more]

Facing Race: A National Conference
November 2014
Institute for Urban Policy Research   (Dallas)


Facing Race: A National Conference is presented by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. It will be held in Dallas, Texas on November 13-... [read more]

The Institute for Urban Policy Research hosts youth summit on issues of racial justice
November 2014
Institute for Urban Policy Research   (Dallas)


On November 8th, 2014, the Institute for Urban Policy Research in conjunction with several other organizations in the area, hosted the first ever youth summit dedicated to exploring the topics of... [read more]

New planning study on access to mortgage finance in California cities
September 2014
Urban Strategies Council   (Oakland)


Urban Strategies Council is in the planning stages for a comparative analysis using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data of selected California cities in collaboration with the Greenlining... [read more]

Aspen Institute Re-Invests in Oakland Innovation
August 2014
Urban Strategies Council   (Oakland)


Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County... [read more]

Fair Housing Choice in the City of St. Louis
June 2014 - January 2015
Rise   (St. Louis)


In late 2014 and early 2015, Rise contributed to the revision of the City of St. Louis' Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, collecting and interpreting a range of data on demographics... [read more]

Equity Mapping and the Geography of Opportunity
April 2014
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies   (Portland)
Shift Research Lab   (Denver*)
Neighborhood Nexus   (Atlanta)


Equity mapping... [read more]

Public Health-Seattle/King County develops new Automated Disease Surveillance program
January 2014 - December 2015
Public Health - Seattle & King County   (Seattle)


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... [read more]

Children's Optimal Health launches new website
August 24, 2012
Children's Optimal Health   (Austin*)


Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new  website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is... [read more]

New ESRI Web Tools
March 1, 2012
University Center for Social and Urban Research   (Pittsburgh)


We're now starting to work with ArcGIS.com and some of the other ESRI Web mapping tools here in Pittsburgh. Some of the earliest maps we have released relate to Allegheny County's property... [read more]

Methods for Monitoring Health Inequities
February 2012 - September 2012
Public Health - Seattle & King County   (Seattle)


We expect to release the methodological information and data for 2-3 key health indicators in a technical report this summer. Health inequities have typically been measured using single point-in-... [read more]

DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey
2012 - 2019
DataHaven   (New Haven)


2012 DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey ... [read more]

Plans to Update the Portland Equity Atlas
August 2011
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies   (Portland)


The Coalition for a Livable Future will partner with Metro, using the Context Tool Metro is developing, to produce the next edition of the Regional Equity Atlas... [read more]

Michigan Department of Community Health: Phase II Capacity Building Grant
May 2011
Data Driven Detroit (D3)   (Detroit)


In 2010, the National Kidney Foundation Michigan (NKFM) was awarded a grant to address health disparities in the African American community in Inkster.   During Phase I of the grant in 2010, NKFM... [read more]

Regional Equity Atlas
May 2011 - September 2012
Shift Research Lab   (Denver*)


Through a new regional transit-oriented development collaborative, Mile High Connects, supported through the Ford Foundation’s Metropolitan Opportunities Initiative, Piton, partnered with... [read more]

Urban Strategies Council launches African American Male Achievement Initiative (AAMAI)
May 2011
Urban Strategies Council   (Oakland)


In partnership with the Oakland Unified School District, we launched the ambitious AAMAI to support black boys in our public school system and to reduce all gaps in outcomes for these boys. We are... [read more]

Public Health co-leading King County government’s Equity and Social Justice work with Executive’s Office—developing measures of success
May 2011
Public Health - Seattle & King County   (Seattle)


In fall of 2010, an equity ordinance was passed that codifies the cross-county equity initiative and expands the work to include all separately elected offices and branches (courts, prosecuting... [read more]

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council releases preliminary findings on Metro Boston’s State of Equity at a Council meeting
May 2011
Metropolitan Area Planning Council   (Boston)


The State of Equity is the first in MAPC’s Regional Indicators program, which establishes a baseline for our equity-related indicators and will track the region’s progress towards the MetroFuture... [read more]

Equity Measures Compiled
2011
Public Health - Seattle & King County   (Seattle)


A database of baseline measures to assess progress in equity across King County departments was developed by Public Health in collaboration with other departments. The measures will... [read more]

Urban Strategies Council Provides Analysis to African American Male Achievement Initiative
2010 - 2012
Urban Strategies Council   (Oakland)


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... [read more]

Full Service Community Schools Strategic Planning for Oakland Unified School District
2010 - 2011
Urban Strategies Council   (Oakland)


Urban Strategies Council facilitated, with the Oakland Unified School District, a nine-month planning process with the multi-stakeholder Full Service Community Task Force.  We produced a... [read more]

MAPC wins HUD Sustainable Communities grant to support MetroFuture Plan
June 2010
Metropolitan Area Planning Council   (Boston)


On October 15, 2010, HUD Regional Administrator Richard Walega announced a $4 million Press conference announcing award of Sustainable Communities grant to MAPCSustainable Communities Grant award... [read more]

M1 Corridor Profile
Data Driven Detroit (D3)   (Detroit)


D3 prepared a profile of the M1 Corridor along Woodward for the Downtown Detroit Partnership. The profile is a collection of baseline indicators intended to inform current planning efforts and... [read more]

Related Online Guides:
Resources for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Related Cross-Site Projects:
Turning the Corner: Monitoring Neighborhood Change to Prevent Displacement
January 2016 - March 2019
Funder: The Kresge Foundation
Contact: Kathryn Pettit , kpettit@urban.org
Partners: Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Milwaukee


Turning the Corner: Monitoring Neighborhood Change to Prevent Displacement piloted a research model in five cities to monitor neighborhood change,... [read more]

Advancing Black Wealth through Local Data & Engagement
2022 - 2024
Funder: Black Wealth Data Center
Contact: Leah Hendey , lhendey@urban.org
Partners: Detroit, New Orleans


Our legacy of racism in US policies and practice – before and through emancipation, reconstruction, and Jim Crow – has sustained a distressing gap in wealth. Specific systemic actions and... [read more]

Community Health Data Project Services
September 2016 - September 2017
Funder: Office of Minority Health at the US Dept. of Health and Human Services
Contact: Leah Hendey , lhendey@urban.org
Partner: Detroit


Data Driven Detroit (D3), in partnership with the Urban Institute, is working under contract to the Office of Minority Health (OMH) to provide technical assistance to two sites with the aim to... [read more]

Related Publications:
The Polis Center
Indianapolis
Equity in Criminal Prosecutions: Analyzing Case Filings from the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office
March 23, 2023
Blog post - By: Aaron Olson, Matt Nowlin, Jay Colbert and Matt Dietrich
Blog Post
Institute for Housing Studies
Chicago
Understanding the Implications of Pandemic House Price Gains in Chicago’s Communities of Color
November 17, 2022
Blog post - By: IHS
Blog post
Urban Institute
NNIP Coordinator
Framing Session for Supporting Cultural Equity in Community Development
October 28, 2022
Meeting Materials - By: Urban Institute
PDF
Data Driven Detroit (D3)
Detroit
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy
Grand Rapids
Michigan Statewide Nonprofit Leadership Census 2022
October 28, 2022
Presentation - By: Melyssa Tsai-O’Brien; Jordan Graves
Slides
Urban Institute
NNIP Coordinator
Framing Page for Supporting the Federal Equity Agenda in Your Community
October 26, 2022
Meeting Materials - By: Urban Institute
Framing page
Urban–Greater DC
Washington, D.C.
Supporting Cultural Equity in Community Development in DC
October 26, 2022
Video - By: Urban Institute
Session Materials
Presentation for Supporting the Federal Equity Agenda in Your Community
October 26, 2022
Presentation - By: Denice Ross
Slides
DataWorks NC
Durham
The Franchise Model of Inequality
August 12, 2022
Blog post - By: Libby McClure; L'Tanta Durante
Blog post
The Polis Center
Indianapolis
The State of Tenants in Central Indiana
May 26, 2022
Blog post - By: Matt Nowlin; Sarah Smith; Alankrit Gupta
Blog post
Urban Institute
NNIP Coordinator
Walkability Entails the Full Walking Experience, Not Just Access to Resources
May 11, 2022
Blog post - By: Yonah Freemark; Eleanor Noble; Peace Gwam
Blog post
Innovate Memphis
Memphis
Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Boston
Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Houston
NNIP Idea Showcase and Awards May 2022
May 11, 2022
Video - By: Altonio Smith; Jessie Partridge; Sarah Diez
Slides
We need Systems Indicators for Equity
April 2022
Presentation - By: Ritika Sharma Kurup, StriveTogether
StriveTogether System Indicators.pptx
The Data Center
New Orleans
Toward an equitable blue-green economy in Southeast Louisiana
April 5, 2022
Report - By: Amy Teller ; Robert Habans
Report
Children's Optimal Health
Austin*
Digital Access: An Opportunity to Improve Equity in Central Texas
February 2022
Digital Feature - By: Children's Optimal Health
Story map
Community Information Now (CI:Now)
San Antonio
State of the African American Community in San Antonio and Bexar County
January 26, 2022
Report - By: Community Information Now
Link to report

Pages

Related Webinars:
Creating Accountability through Democratizing Data for Equitable and Resilient Communities
May 5, 2022 - 3:30pm
Speaker: Sonia Torres-Rodriguez; Seema Iyer


The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a peer-learning network of more than 30 cities who have been working to democratize data for equitable and resilient communities for 25... [read more]

System Indicators for Equity
April 19, 2022 - 3:00pm
Speaker: Sonia Torres Rodríguez, Urban Institute; Ritika Sharma Kurup, StriveTogether; Dr. Delia Kimbrel, ImpactTulsa; Michael Applegate, Bright Futures Education Partnership


NNIP co-hosted a moderated panel with team members from the StriveTogether's Racial and Ethnic Equity Action Team to discuss their guide and implementation process on systems indicators.The... [read more]

Monitoring Neighborhood Change: Using Data to Track and Prevent Displacement
June 5, 2019 - 2:00pm
Speaker: Mychal Cohen; Somala Diby; Sarah Duda


In this webinar of the Urban Waters Learning Network series on gentrification and displacement, they explore different ways data is being used by communities and decision-makers to understand... [read more]

African American Male Achievement in OUSD: An Overview

Speaker: Junious Wiliams; Steve Spiker; Tony Smith, OUSD Superintendent; Chris Chatmon, ED for African American Male Achievement at OUSD


On May 30th at 10am Pacific, Urban Strategies Council and the Oakland Unified School... [read more]



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Informing Racially Equitable COVID-19 Responses across Seattle Neighborhoods
September 23, 2022

Black, Indigenous, and people of color experience worse social, economic, and health outcomes in King County, Washington. A long history and persistence of structural racism causes these...

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Directing the Economic Influence of a Regional Business Community toward Racial Equity Projects
August 29, 2022

Regional businesses have an important role in advancing racial equity in their communities. A group of chief executives and business leaders in San Antonio, Texas, came together after George Floyd...

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Increasing the Accountability and Equity of Investments in the Atlanta Beltline
August 24, 2022

The Atlanta BeltLine is a 22-mile railroad corridor that is designed to improve greenspace, housing, economic development, and connectivity in Atlanta, Georgia...

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Helping Memphis and Shelby County Address Housing Instability through Data Services
May 31, 2022

Housing instability has long been a concern in Shelby County, Tennessee, with eviction...

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Equitable, Not Equal, Distribution of Public Safety Funds in Indianapolis
August 17, 2021

Interested in redressing existing racial, economic, educational, and health inequities, the Indianapolis City-County Council explored how to more effectively allocate funding to reduce violence....

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Arming Philadelphia Organizations with Data to Change Lives
July 22, 2021

What happens when quality data are put in the hands of changemakers? As Amy Carroll-Scott shared, “Data doesn’t change lives,...

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Collaborating with the Atlanta Government towards more Equitable Economic Development
July 22, 2021

Cities across the US have become especially interested in building economic mobility and resilience as they recover from the COVID-...

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Black Equity Coalition Deploys Data to Reduce COVID-19’s Impact on the Black Community in Allegheny County
May 27, 2021

Harnessing interdisciplinary expertise and perspectives, the Black Equity Coalition (BEC) in Pittsburgh successfully used data to...

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Using Data to Advocate for Safer Walking Conditions in Houston
December 1, 2020

Between 2010 and 2017, 149 people were killed or injured ...

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Using an Equity Lens to Track Capital Investments in Baltimore
August 15, 2020

Baltimore, known for being the birthplace of racially restrictive zoning, continues to be one of the most segregated cities in the United States. The impact of segregation has meant some...

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Building Place and Equity into Health Planning in San Antonio
January 2, 2019

Children don't get to choose where they are born. But in Bexar County, Texas, where San Antonio is located, current death data shows that children born in neighborhoods immediately to the east and...

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New Data Spurs Action on Local Hiring in New Haven
September 3, 2017

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,...

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Making Capital Improvement Planning More Equitable in St. Paul
June 15, 2017

Do cities distribute their capital improvement funds equitably across neighborhoods? It is hard to find a good answer to that question anywhere. Why? Because, given the hard work and definitional...

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Stark Disparities Between Neighborhoods: A Wake-up Call for Dallas’ Civic Leaders
June 1, 2017

For a more complete case study of this experience, see Chapter 6 of Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data, by G. Thomas...

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Reports Highlighting Health Disparities Capture Attention of Policy-Makers
August 29, 2011

Based on data in the Health of King County 2006 and Communities Count 2005 reports from the County public health department (Public Health Seattle-King County - PHSKC), knowledge...

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