The National Neighborhood
Indicators Partnership
An Update
Semi-Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
May 12-14, 2010
NNIP Leadership
MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
2010 Executive Committee
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Matt Barry, Denver
Phyllis Betts, Memphis
Tim Bray, Dallas
Claudia Coulton, Cleveland
Michael Rich, Atlanta
Steve Spiker, Oakland
Recently Stepped Down
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John Stern, Nashville
Mike Barndt, Milwaukee
Garth Taylor, Chicago
Charlie Bruner, Des Moines
Sandy Ciske, Seattle
Active Work Groups & Chairs
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NNIP Shared Indicators: Charlotte
Kahn, Garth Taylor
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Comprehensive Redesign NNIP Web
Site: Kathy Pettit, Steve Spiker, Matt
Barry
New Agendas to be Developed
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Neigh. Housing/Foreclosures
Neigh. Economic Development
Early Childhood
Health and Neighborhoods
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
James O. Gibson
Who with his Rockefeller Foundation Community
Planning and Action Program colleagues in 1995
STARTED IT ALL
LOCAL PARTNERS IN NNIP
The defining functions
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Build and operate information systems with
integrated and recurrently updated indicators on
neighborhood conditions
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Facilitate and promote the direct practical use of
indicators by community and city leaders in
community building and local policy making
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Emphasize the use of information to build the
capacities of institutions and residents in distressed
neighborhoods
NNIP WORK PLAN
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Advance the state of practice
1. Informing local policy initiatives (substantive
cross-site initiatives)
2. Developing tools and guides (NNIP Elements of
Practice)
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Build/strengthen local capacity
3. Developing capacity in new communities
4. Services to an expanding network (Community of
Practice and Partnership)
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Influence national context/partnering
5. Leadership in building the field
INFORMING LOCAL POLICY
Cross-site initiatives
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Address real local policy issues, but in a comparable
way across sites
– LISC community development initiative
(MacArthur Foundation)
– Children and foreclosures (Open Society Institute)
– NNIP Shared Indicators System
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Exploring new opportunities
– Convergence with new federal priorities
- Neighborhood improvement
- Sustainable regional development
– Health and neighborhoods
BUILD/STRENGTHEN LOCAL CAPACITY
New Cities
Growth at a reasonable pace
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Two strong new partners this meeting
– Portland OR – Institute of Portland Metropolitan
Studies, Portland State University
– Kansas City - Center for Economic Information at
the University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Strategy for expansion
– Work with other interested candidates that
exhibit potential
– e.g., San Antonio, Jacksonville, Duluth, Madison
BUILD/STRENGTHEN LOCAL CAPACITY
Services to Network
NNIP Community of Practice
 Expanding
direct peer-to-peer interaction
– Web-chats, email list-serve
– Commitment to NNIP newsletter this year
 Comprehensive
redesign - NNIP web-site
– New structure, look and feel
– RFP to developers in June
 Excerpts
partners
from national datasets to
BUILD/STRENGTHEN LOCAL CAPACITY
Services to Network
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Exploring options for local website development
– Opportunity to view and compare options
– Open Indicators Consortium review this meeting
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Preparing to take advantage of new data sources
– Addressing the challenges of tract-level data from
the American Community Survey, this meeting
LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELD
National initiatives/opportunities
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LISC Community Development Initiatives
- Operating in 11 cities (NNIP partners involved in 5)
- NNIP providing discussion forums, helping build capacity in
new cities, and producing supporting analysis
- New Comprehensive Community Development Institute
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MacArthur Foundation Grant: A New Book on Information
and Community Change
- Kingsley, Coulton and Pettit as editors
- To cover state of the art in all aspects of the topic, but NNIP
experience will be prominent
LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELD
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National Community Information Collaborative
- Proposal being developed by Urban Institute in collaboration
with LISC, Enterprise, Center for Housing Policy,
NeighborWorks, HUD and foundations
- Purpose to assure continuity and expansion of community
access to small area data from national datasets
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NNIP Funders Network
- Network of funders that support NNIP locally and nationally
- Meeting today – convened by Cindy Guy, Annie E. Casey
Foundation
- Explore ways to interact with NNIP and expand contribution
to the field
LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELD
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Community Indicators Consortium (CIC)
- Charlotte Kahn, President; Kathy Pettit, Vice President
- Participate in Annual Conferences
- Joint CIC/NNIP participation in work group on
performance measurement (Tim Bray, Tom Kingsley)
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NNIP & understanding impacts of the recession and
foreclosure crisis
- Based on new NNIP-wide Shared Indicators System
- Analysis to better understand the impacts of these
crises and how they vary by place