Equity
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]
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]
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]
Metroscape’s Winter 2018 edition launched with a panel discussion on nonagricultural uses of Oregon farmland.... [read more]
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]
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 shared lessons with nonprofit and advocacy organizations participating in the Citi... [read more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County... [read more]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Turning the Corner: Monitoring Neighborhood Change to Prevent Displacement piloted a research model in five cities to monitor neighborhood change,... [read more]
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]
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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]
On May 30th at 10am Pacific, Urban Strategies Council and the Oakland Unified School... [read more]
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