From Data to Collective Impact Series
Presented on May 30, 2017
• Thamara Labrousse, Program Director, Healthy Community Partnership
• Margaret Doughty, Founder of Literacy Powerline and international literacy advocate
In this webinar a short introduction of the collective impact framework will be followed by a panel on engaging diverse community and building a collaborative for impact while applying an equity lens. Presenters will discuss the latest techniques for community engagement; how to engage those who will most benefit from the change you seek; how to build equity into the engagement model from the start.
Presented on July 17, 2014
Facilitator:
Frank Ridzi, Vice President, Community Investment – Central New York Community Foundation
Presenters:
Ron Fairchild, Director, GLR Support Center – Campaign for Grade Level Reading | President & CEO – Smarter Learning Group
Parvathi “Parv” Santhosh-Kumar, Director, Network Learning – Strive Together
You may already have a suite of effective indicators. How do you use them to develop a shared measurement system that is essential to collective impact? The panel will help you make the connection between community indicators and shared measurement. How do they build upon each other and how do they differ? How can you ensure that they remain aligned, and that they guide your effort toward an effective common agenda and accountability for all?
Series on using Visualization for Impact
Presented on June 19, 2014
Dr. Taj Carson, CEO and founder of Carson Research Consulting
Our third webinar in the Visualization series looks at the Baltimore DataMind, an interactive mapping tool developed by Carson Research Consulting Inc. It was created as a free resource for Baltimore city residents to help promote collaboration, advocacy, and data driven decisions. This webinar will focus on how the CRC team created the DataMind, including the different types of software we explored and the challenges we encountered during the building of the first and second versions. We will also talk briefly about our reasons for developing the DataMind, including our love for data and maps, lessons learned along the way, and ideas for future improvements.
Presented on July 17, 2014
Erica Raleigh, Director of Data Driven Detroit
With its new iteration of the One D Scorecard, Data Driven Detroit uses interactivity and visualization to more effectively convey its message, including a new hyperlocal ‘deep dive’ component, created with the intent of identifying opportunities for action on a local level that can lead to change at the regional scale. D3 shows what tools were used to make a wealth of demographic, socioeconomic, housing, and other data available and accessible to the community using maps and other forms of visualization and how it helps the community understand complex and diverse data patterns.
Presented on May 22, 2014
Jeremy Smith, PhD, GIS professional at the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Agency
Our first webinar in the Visualization series examines geographic information systems as a powerful tool for sharing geospatial information and visualizing data. Effective use of GIS technology can change the way we view and describe our communities. However, GIS software can be expensive and the level of technical expertise required to implement a GIS can be daunting. This webinar provides the viewer with information about open source GIS solutions and some tips on how to get started with data acquisition and analysis. Furthermore, it explores using open source programs such as Google Earth for presenting your community’s GIS data to a wide audience.
Presented on June 5, 2014
Artineh Samkian, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Education at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education and Joelle Greene, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate at Harder+Company.
Qualitative data can produce a lot of narrative text. Long narratives are not always the appropriate means of reporting, because they are not always stakeholder-friendly. This webinar will demonstrate how to produce visually appealing and content rich graphic timelines as one way to consolidate a rich narrative into a visual display that is both appealing and understandable to busy decision makers and community members. We will show how to use readily available software, how to code data for milestones, the use of text boxes, and considerations for disseminating your data.
Series on Data Storytelling
Tools and strategies for using social media to tell your data's story
Part II
Presented on April 30, 2015
Ruth Hamberg | Engagement Specialist | Amherst H. Wilder Foundation |Wilder Research | @rehamberg
Lauren Endlund | Manager, Evaluation and Research, Success Measures | Success Measures at NeighborWorks America | @LaurenAEdlund
Social media is a powerful tool for community indicator and data projects, and if used correctly, can help increase awareness, engage a wide range of stakeholders, improve data literacy and contribute to the quality of data available. Using an interactive approach, we’ll help you learn how to harness social media to tell the story of an indicator or data point and engage with a wider audience in a meaningful way. You will gain tools and strategies to complement existing work, identify and tailor content for different audiences, choose the right platform, and deploy a social media strategy on a budget. And you’ll find out the new Twitter feature you may not know you need.
Presented on March 26, 2015
Promoting Equity with Indicators Series
Presented September 12, 2013
Allison Churilla, Research Scientist, Wilder Research
Jane Tigan, Research Associate, Wilder Research
Jo-Anne Stately, Director of Impact Strategy and Economic Vitality, Minneapolis Foundation
Minnesota and the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area rank high across a range of quality of life indicators, but are also home to some of the nation’s largest social and economic racial disparities. In this webinar we demonstrate the model that we have developed for tracking racial disparities on a statewide indicators project, and provide examples of how we have partnered with initiatives and organizations working to reduce disparities. We will highlight an annual report, oneMinneapolis, as a case study of how a local community foundation is using data and analysis to help push an equity agenda in the city of Minneapolis, as well as our recent “Mind the Gap” work with the Itasca Project, a group of business leaders seeking to advance regional prosperity.
Presented on July 17, 2014
Erica Raleigh, Director of Data Driven Detroit
With its new iteration of the One D Scorecard, Data Driven Detroit uses interactivity and visualization to more effectively convey its message, including a new hyperlocal ‘deep dive’ component, created with the intent of identifying opportunities for action on a local level that can lead to change at the regional scale. D3 shows what tools were used to make a wealth of demographic, socioeconomic, housing, and other data available and accessible to the community using maps and other forms of visualization and how it helps the community understand complex and diverse data patterns.
Presented August 22, 2013
Richard Gelb, Performance Management and Equity Lead, King County Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks
Hilary Franz, Executive Director, Futurewise
This webinar demonstrates how King County, WA and Futurewise, a statewide public interest group, use their collaborative resources to understand and address inequities in foundational community conditions. It differentiates the domains of process, distributional and intergenerational equity, explore typical approaches to measuring distributional equity at various geographic scales, interpret distributional equity findings to consider how variations in conditions (benefits and burdens) relate to community demographics, and considers and critiques tools and resources to guide pro-equity responses.
Presented on September 26, 2013
Damaris Nicholson, State of Texas’ Center for the Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities
Race and institutionalized racism are at the core of disproportionate and disparate outcomes for vulnerable communities and communities of color. In this webinar, participants will learn about race and its manifestations of institutionalized racism and its impact. The session will also include a discussion of the Texas Model for Addressing Disproportionality and Disparities and how it is applied to improve outcomes for all systems that work with vulnerable populations by utilizing data driven strategies.
Indicators in Depth Series
Presented on February 23, 2012
Craig Helmstetter and Jennifer Franklin, Wilder Research
Minnesota Compass is a statewide indicators project covering a full range of topics, from Aging and Immigration to Public Safety, Housing, and Education. The project is supported by a consortium of 17 Foundations, as well as the 500+ influential Minnesotans who have participated in its development. Minnesota Compass includes a broad outreach and engagement strategy that includes everything from convening events to tweeting. This case-study will address everything from how we select “key measures” and manage data to our basic budget and project staffing. We also look forward to hearing your suggestions and feedback on our website (www.mncompass.org).
Presented on February 16, 2012
Dawn Helmrich, Direcor of Data and Outcomes, United Way of Greater Milwaukee
The Community Outcomes Project is designed to collectively measure outcomes in specific issue areas, in an effort to better communicate to donors and the public the impact funded programs have on our community. In implementing this project, program partners were able to collaboratively determine outcomes as they related to their services. As a result, United Way of Greater Milwaukee is better able to collectively measure and communicate tangible, meaningful results that reflect our community and its critical issues as a whole.
Presented on March 8, 2012
Paul Epstein, Results that Matter Team
Public, private, and nonprofit organizations use balanced scorecards to map their strategy based on cause-and-effect assumptions, to align the entire organization behind that strategy, and to measure and improve strategic performance. They use balanced scorecards not just to manage for results, but to manage for strategic results that most advance their mission. A Community Balanced Scorecard can bring that power to an entire community by focusing on a state, regional, or community improvement strategy that involves multiple players such as citizens, government, nonprofits, and public-minded businesses. Balanced scorecards are about managing strategy; Community Balanced Scorecards combine the traditional approach with engagement of partners to enable faster, better progress toward desired community outcomes. Our Community Balanced Scorecard (CBSC) methodology has adapted the balanced scorecard strategy map and added more tools to manage the complexity of collaborative efforts, communicate strategy to partners to help them find their roles, and help partners determine how to implement and measure their contributions toward the realization of the community’s vision.
Presented on March 15, 2012
Lyle Wray, Capitol Region Council of Governments and CIC Board Member
Lyle covered selecting issues to be addressed in communities based on indicators information and then offered a toolkit for getting results in the community to advance these indicators. Specifically the webinar covered:
-Robust engagement of residents as partners in multiple roles.
-Causal diagrams to diagnose the problem.
-Evidence-based practices.
-Strategy maps.
-Performance measurement of drivers and outcomes.
-Detailed action plans keyed to strategy, performance, and partners.
-Community results compacts.
Examples from community practice were offered to illustrate each of these steps.
Presented on April 26, 2012
Samantha Becker, Research Project Manager, University of Washington Information School
Most program managers understand how evaluation can help an organization comply with grant requirements, improve performance, and provide better services. But that’s not all evaluation can do. Learn how evaluation and the skillful application of indicators can help mobilize support for your organization by:
-Developing messages to policy audiences about the value of your programs
-Preparing your internal audiences and supporters to advocate for you
-Building partnerships to leverage resources and amplify your value
Presented on August 9, 2012
Evie Barry; Director, Performance Reporting; Association of Government Accountants
How do government entities provide an accurate financial picture of how taxpayer money is spent in a way that is easily understood? The majority of governments struggle to communicate the business of government to citizens. AGA’s Citizen Centric Reporting (CCR) is intended to foster an innovative means of communication between governments and their citizens by urging officials to expalin, in a snapshot of Cliff Notes version how the government has spent taxpayer dollars. Accountability and transparency are essential for a healthy democracy. Why not adopt the CCR model for your community?
Presented on July 26, 2012
Sharon Mierzwa, Program Director, Connecticut Association of Directors of Health (CADH) and Deanna Zachary, Director of Community Research and Communications, Applied Survey Research
Despite strong public health efforts, health inequities can be found in towns and cities throughout Connecticut. Moving our attention to the underlying community conditions and opportunities that support good health practices and outcomes can meaningfully improve quality of life for all residents. To that end, the Connecticut Association of Directors of Health has developed the Health Equity Index, which is a community-based analytic tool that profiles and provides measures representing community conditions in relation to specific health outcomes. The index provides data, scores, correlations and GIS mapping for all 169 communities in Connecticut. The scores are calculated on a 10-point scale with 1 (red) indicating the least desirable community conditions for health outcomes, and 10 (green) indicating the most desirable.
Community Indicators / Performance Measures Integration Series
Finding and documenting “Real Stories” of communities that have tried—successfully and not-so-successfully—to integrate community indicators and performance measures is vital to helping to increasing the knowledge of CI-PM integration. The Real Stories are intended to provide real life examples of the advantages to both community indicator and organizational performance measurement projects as a result of integrating these two types of efforts:
- community indicators would have a greater influence on what governments and organizations do to improve a community and
- governments’ and organizations’ performance measures would be more relevant to the community conditions that are of the greatest concern to citizens and other key community stakeholders.
These Real Stories are also intended to provide tools and practices that practitioners have used which will allow other communities to learn from, and improve on these efforts.
Finding and documenting “Real Stories” of communities that have tried—successfully and not-so-successfully—to integrate community indicators and performance measures is vital to helping to increasing the knowledge of CI-PM integration. The Real Stories are intended to provide real life examples of the advantages to both community indicator and organizational performance measurement projects as a result of integrating these two types of efforts:
- community indicators would have a greater influence on what governments and organizations do to improve a community and
- governments’ and organizations’ performance measures would be more relevant to the community conditions that are of the greatest concern to citizens and other key community stakeholders.
These Real Stories are also intended to provide tools and practices that practitioners have used which will allow other communities to learn from, and improve on these efforts.
Finding and documenting “Real Stories” of communities that have tried—successfully and not-so-successfully—to integrate community indicators and performance measures is vital to helping to increasing the knowledge of CI-PM integration. The Real Stories are intended to provide real life examples of the advantages to both community indicator and organizational performance measurement projects as a result of integrating these two types of efforts:
- community indicators would have a greater influence on what governments and organizations do to improve a community and
- governments’ and organizations’ performance measures would be more relevant to the community conditions that are of the greatest concern to citizens and other key community stakeholders.
These Real Stories are also intended to provide tools and practices that practitioners have used which will allow other communities to learn from, and improve on these efforts.