A Publication of the Community Indicators Consortium

August 2021

In This Issue

Quick Hits Making a Big Impact

Feature

Impact Summit – Register Today!

Featured Indicator

City of Las Vegas Community Dashboard

Featured Data Tool

Delaware Child Care Map

Feature

CIC Impact Summit Conference Registration

November 1 – 4, 2021

The 2021 CIC Virtual Impact Summit, Community Indicators for Change: Responding, Rebuilding, and Advancing Equity, will be held virtually from November 1 – 4, 2021. Whether it’s responding to the impacts and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic or advancing access and equity for all people, this summit focuses on how your work and data ensure we are creating a world for the better.

Indicators Making an Impact

Projects Driving Change in Their Community

The City of Las Vegas Community Dashboard helps community-members evaluate the health of their community relative to the City of Las Vegas and Clarke County. Compare how your neighborhood compares with Las Vegas in terms of education and demographics, and economic and fiscal health. Visit the CIC website for more Indicators Projects.

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Upcoming Events, Training, and Webinars

Opportunities to Grow Your Impact

ISQOLS 2021 Conference 

Quality-of-life and Adaptation in a Virulent World 

August 23 – 27, 2021

Levine Museum of the New South  

What is it Going to Take? Housing and City Planning  

August 24, 2021

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET

The Future of Work: What Projections Analysts Can Learn from Sociologists 

Open Forum Hosted by the PMP 

August 25, 2021

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Tamarack Institute 

Designing What’s Next

September 8, 2021

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

Racism and the Economy: Focus on Health 

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 

September 9, 2021

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET

Community Indicators Consortium

Youth Data, Youth Voices: SMS Data Collection to Survey Young People in NYC

September 24, 2021

12:00 PM ET

First Fridays Coffee Break: August 2021

Houston Community Data Connections with Katie Wang 

Watch Anytime 

2021 Virtual Impact Summit Sponsorship Opportunities

With Support From Our Readers

Do you know an organization that would be in interested in sponsoring the 2021 Virtual Impact Summit? This year’s theme, Community Indicators for Change: Responding Rebuilding, and Advancing Equity, focuses on opportunities to leverage indicators projects to grow community resiliency and improve social outcomes. CIC welcomes the opportunity to partner with organizations interested in helping advance the mission of CIC and this year’s conference theme of bringing indicators to action!

Featured Data Tool

Resources That Help You Make an Impact

The Delaware Child Care Map is a public, interactive mapping tool that allows users to see the locations of licensed child care providers and facilities throughout the state alongside community indicators on topics such as demographics (age, race & ethnicity), family types, income, poverty rates, unemployment and more. This tool was developed by PolicyMap in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Want your data tool featured? Contact Lee Winkler.

Featured Resources

Impact that Goes Beyond the Data

Dashboards

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention- Percent of Population Fully Vaccinated by Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) 
• City of Long Beach Development Services – Housing Dashboards
• Bloomberg MapLab – The Cities Where Chain Restaurants Dominate
• World Economic Forum – Strategic Intelligence Tool 

Data

• Bureau of Labor Statistics – Nearly Half of Employed Women Worked at Home on Days Worked in 2020
• Census Bureau – 1 in 5 Dorms, Prisons Had No Data at End of US Count 
• Census Bureau – 2020 Temporary Workers  
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – Incentives for Entrepreneurial Firms 

Reports

• Boston Indicators and the Boston Foundation – The Color of the Capital Gap: Increasing Capital Access for Entrepreneurs of Color in Massachusetts
• Brookings – The Coming Eviction Crisis Will Hit Black Communities the Hardest
• Brookings – The Pandemic Hurt Low-Wage Workers the Most—so Far the Recovery Has Helped Them the Least 
• Pew Research Center – As National Eviction Ban Expires, a Look at Who Rents and Who Owns in the U.S. 
• StreetsBlog USA – The Most Dangerous Roads in America for Walkers
• World Economic Forum – How To Make Our Cities Greener, Healthier, Wilder and Fairer 

Careers

Because Change Only Happens When YOU Make It

Have an open position that might be of interest to CIC members? Let us post your job listing.

Send the position title, description, and any other relevant information to Lee Winkler

Jobs are typically posted within 1 business day and postings remain active for 45 days if no closing date is specified.

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