NNIP Network Update
Kathy Pettit and Leah Hendey
NNIP/Urban Team & Executive Committee
October 22, 2015
NNIP Work Plan 2015-17
• Articulate strategic principles for
decisionmaking on new and future work
• Plan for near-term activities and staffing
• Review priorities and how we are investing
across our goals
• Share upcoming plans with supporters,
colleagues and partnership
• Create framework for identifying gaps and
cultivating new ideas and support
NNIP Work Plan Components
• Build and strengthen local capacity
– Support current partners
• Provide capacity-building opportunities & materials
• Increase network participation
• Increase partner and network accountability
– Support potential partners
• Inform local and national policy
• Build support for community information field
Build and strengthen local
capacity
Provide capacity-building opportunities
and materials
• Two partnership meetings
• Pittsburgh pre-meeting on data and
technology for managers
• Performance management guide and
webinar
• Performance management workgroup
• School discipline webinar
• Help desk guide
Increase network participation
• Engagement between meetings
– Quarterly idea showcases
– Check-ins with NNIPHQ
– #NNIPChat
– Handout on network participation (draft)
• New staff/partners
– Buddy system for meetings
– Next: intro NNIP materials for new staff
Increase partner and network
accountability
• Policy for partners in transition
• Coaching for partners in transition
• Redesigned data inventory process &
recalibrated SNIP score
• Next:
– Written summary of principles and expectations
– Pilot partner organization participation scorecard
Support potential partners
• Growth strategy
– Explicit principles for growth
– Prioritized level of effort
• Technical assistance for 8 sites and fielded
questions from others
• Summary of NNIP finances survey (Nov.)
• Start-up guide (in progress)
Plans for 2016-17 (current partners)
• Continue engagement and capacity building
activities (check-ins, meetings etc.)
• Deploy participation scorecard
• Develop data management guide
• Improve website as platform for peer
exchange
• Consider a member pledge at application
and regular recommitment process
Plans for 2016-17 (potential partners)
• Develop annual outreach plan
• Publish start-up guide
• Continue research and outreach to discover
potential sites
Inform local and national
policy
Goals
• Directly influence local policy in NNIP cities via
cross-site projects
• Share new approaches to using data to
improve local policy in all cities
• Use local lessons to suggest implications for
national policy
Current cross-site projects
• Integrated data systems (6 partners)
– Funder: Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Civic Tech and Data Collaborative (7 partners)
– Funder: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
• Forward Cities (in 3 NNIP cities)
– Strengthening entrepreneurial support systems
– Funder: Case and Goldman Sachs Foundations
Plans for 2016-17
• Prioritize and develop ideas from partners
solicited in 2015
• Cultivate promising candidates
– Neighborhood change in legacy cities
– Health, Housing and Neighborhoods
– Neighborhood investment
• Pilot topical brief(s) with NNIP examples
Build support for community
information field
Current Activities
• Civic tech and data framework (draft)
• Stories on NNIP & federal place-based initiatives
– Kansas City, San Antonio, St. Louis, Washington, DC
• Engagement with Strive and Data Quality Campaign
• Engagement with Federal Reserve Banks
Plans for 2016-17
• Prioritize networks for outreach
• Develop materials to explain local information
infrastructure and need for investment
• Consider briefs on how NNIP partners improve local
capacity
– For local governments, community foundations, etc.
Cross-cutting activities
Ongoing activities
• Diversify and increase funding for network
operations and special projects
• Improve strategic communications
– Improve network branding
– Develop updated, more frequent content
– Consider newsletters – both internal and external
– Make better use of the website
Ongoing activities (cont.)
• Improve NNIPHQ operations
– Implement, share performance measures
– Reduce number of systems for NNIPHQ & partners
• Upgraded website backend
• Implementing SalesForce