2019 Impact Summit: Full Schedule

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1:00pm MDT

Pre-conference Workshop: So you want to start a community indicators project?

A short but thorough introduction to the art and techniques for starting and sustaining an impactful community indicators project.

Register separately for this workshop

Speakers

Chantal Stevens

Executive Director, Community Indicators Consortium

Chantal Stevens joined the Community Indicators Consortium as an early Board Member, 2005-2008, then again in 2012 and has been CIC's Executive Director since 2013. She's an experienced nonprofit manager who was formerly the Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle, a pioneer in... Read More →

Wednesday October 9, 2019 1:00pm - 2:45pm MDT

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

Company WORKSHOP

1:00pm MDT

Pre-conference Workshop: The Use of Goevisualization Techniques via Scenario Planning for More Resilient Communities

This workshop under the aegis of Resiliency will provide communities with ideas and methods to help think about and plan for their own communities The first half of the workshop will look at how to use geovisualization techniques can graphically show and display the impacts of shocks to the system. The second half of the workshop will show how to take that data and create a scenario planning matrix of different scenarios that a community could use. We will highlight that the strength of scenario planning and the scenario planning matrix is not only ideal for understanding what different scenarios will result in but is also ideal for creating dialogue between community members.

Register separately for this workshop

Speakers

Stephen Buckman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Urban Planning & Partner at DSD, Clemson University, Department of City Planning and Real Estate Development

Dr. Buckman is an Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Urban Planning at Clemson Univeristy and a partner with Design Strategies and Development . His work is centered on resilient scenario planning to help communities and developers deal with climate change.

Jonathan Davis

Partner, Design, Strategies, & Development (DSD)

Jonathan Davis is a partner at Design, Strategies, and Development. He specializes in spatial analysis, data visualization, and Geodesign. For the past five years he has served as the GIS Analyst for the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. He is recognized for his work in public... Read More →

Wednesday October 9, 2019 1:00pm - 2:45pm MDT

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

Company WORKSHOP

3:00pm MDT

Pre-Conference Workshop: Community Data for Equity Action

As America grows more diverse yet racial inequities in health, wealth, and opportunity remain wide and persistent, community action to advance equity – just and fair inclusion – is more critical than ever. Robust data that is disaggregated by race/ethnicity, income, neighborhood, and more plays a key role in supporting community groups, advocates, planners, policymakers, and others understand the state of equity in communities and inform policy solutions. This workshop, designed for anyone interested in producing and using local data tools to advance equity, will introduce equity as a concept, share examples of local and national data tools designed to advance equity, and present a set of principles for designing data tools for health equity action developed by PolicyLink and EcoTrust.

Register separately for this workshop

Speakers

Sarah Treuhaft

Director, PolicyLink

Sarah Treuhaft is Director of Equitable Growth Initiatives at PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity. Sarah coordinates the organization’s work on demographic change and the economy, collaborating with local and national partners... Read More →

Wednesday October 9, 2019 3:00pm - 4:15pm MDT

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP, Equity

3:00pm MDT

Pre-conference Workshop: Creating Dashboards with Tableau Public

This workshop will provide a hands on tutorial into creating your first dashboard with Tableau Public; an open source data visualization application.

Register separately for this workshop

Speakers

M. Yusri Jamaluddin

Data Specialist, Community Food & Environment Institute, Michigan State University Extension

Yusri Jamaluddin is an Extension Data Specialist with the Community, Food, and Environment Institute. He has a M.Sc. in Business Analytics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Public Policy from Michigan State University. Yusri is a Certified GIS Professional with... Read More →

Wednesday October 9, 2019 3:00pm - 4:15pm MDT
TBA

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

Company WORKSHOP

8:15am MDT

Arrival and breakfast

Thursday October 10, 2019 8:15am - 9:00am MDT

Open

9:00am MDT

Opening Remarks

Thursday October 10, 2019 9:00am - 9:20am MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

PLENARY

9:20am MDT

Keynote: Rosemary Rodriguez - Gateway to Democracy: Using Census education as a foundation for civic participation

A Colorado native, Rosemary Rodriguez is the Executive Director of Together We Count. She formerly served on the Denver City Council and as a commissioner on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. She also chaired the 2001 Colorado Reapportionment Commission, a constitutional body responsible for redrawing legislative districts after the 2000 Census. Together We Count works to understand the apprehensions that bar hard-to-count communities from census participation and develops trustworthy information to encourage being counted.

Thursday October 10, 2019 9:20am - 10:20am MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

PLENARY

10:20am MDT

Break

Thursday October 10, 2019 10:20am - 10:30am MDT

Open

10:30am MDT

a) Using Data for Social Impact: How A Cross-Sector Commitment to Degree Attainment Is Transforming Florida Communities b) RI Talent Dashboard: Connecting Rhode Islanders to Interactive, Cross-sector Data

a) Using Data for Social Impact: How A Cross-Sector Commitment to Degree Attainment Is Transforming Florida Communities (Kimberly Lent, Kimberly Krupa, PhD) The percentage of adults with a high-quality postsecondary degree or credential is one of the most powerful indicators of economic development and healthy communities. Through an overview of FCAN and Achieve Escambia’s research and policy analysis, data dashboards, and cross-sector convenings, attendees will see how Florida’s commitment to community indicators is driving conversation about inequities and sparking action.

b) RI Talent Dashboard: Connecting Rhode Islanders to Interactive, Cross-sector Data (Ariel Neumann, Amelia Roberts) As demand for data access and democratization has increased, the need for a more robust and accessible solution has emerged. In late 2018, the RI Governor’s Workforce Board (GWB) spearheaded a cross-agency initiative to make data more accessible to the public as well as provide more capacity to state agencies. GWB, the RI Department of Education, the RI Department of Labor and Training, the RI Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner and DataSpark collaborated to create the RI Talent Dashboard, a website dedicated to providing accurate and up-to-date data across 15+ indicators. From this presentation, participants will learn what the RI Talent Dashboard is, how it was built, challenges we encountered, and what you may need to consider if you want to build a similar site.

Speakers

Kimberly Lent

Assistant Director for Research and Analytics, Florida College Access Network

Kimberly Krupa

Executive Director, Achieve Escambia

Implementation science, project design, continuous improvement

Ariel Neumann

Data Scientist, DataSpark

Amelia Roberts

Director of Data and Performance, Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training

Thursday October 10, 2019 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

COMMUNICATE, Cross-cutting

Company TALKS

10:30am MDT

a) Developing a Snapshot of Community Participation b) Reaching Across Sectors, Geographies and Demographics to Build a Foundation for Improved Quality of Life c) Leaving no Canadian Behind: Data to Identify Vulnerable Groups of Canadians and

a) Developing a Snapshot of Community Participation (Trina Prior, Jenny Lee-Leugner) Are we missing the bigger picture with the way we look at levels of community participation? What role does social media play in enabling people to participate in community life? Which generations are most active and in what ways? What prevents or limits people’s participation? These are some of the questions Vancouver Foundation sought to answer with its 2019 Vital Signs report. This presentation will outline: the Foundation’s motivation for moving from a broad community indicator report to one focused on the theme of community participation; how findings were paired to tell a story; and the opportunities that have been identified to share and build on the findings.
With a report release date of October 3rd, CIC conference attendees will be among the first to hear about this research.

b) Reaching Across Sectors, Geographies and Demographics to Build a Foundation for Improved Quality of Life (Nancy Watson) Learn how Engage Nova Scotia, a small not-for-profit, is combining just-in-time design with long-range visioning to leverage original, province-wide research and drive community-based systems change by catalyzing ground-up, cross-sectoral regional teams

c) Leaving no Canadian Behind: Data to Identify Vulnerable Groups of Canadians and Measure their Wellbeing in the Context of SDG Implementation (Stefan Jungcurt) One of the fundamental principles of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals is to leave no one behind, meaning that all SDGs and their targets must be achieved for all people everywhere. The Agenda further states that implementation must start put those most behind first, to ensure that people suffering from extreme poverty and marginalization will be prioritized. With the support of the Canadian government, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) investigated which groups of Canadians are most at risk of being left behind and what data sources are available to monitor their well being. We find that, despite Canada’s overall high standard of living, many Canadians are currently being left behind and that many of the affected groups are insufficiently represented in official statistics. Vulnerable groups must also be enabled to participate in the definition of indicator frameworks, data collection and analysis, and be empowered to use data to tell their stories of deprivation.

Speakers

Trina Prior

Manager of Partnerships, Vancouver Foundation

Trina Prior is the Manager of Partnerships & Community Initiatives at Vancouver Foundation, one of Canada’s largest community foundations. Her recent work has focused on community engagement and collaboration, including the 2017 Connect & Engage report for Metro Vancouver and the... Read More →

Stefan Jungcurt

Lead SDG Indicators and Monitoring, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Jenny

Katie Oconnell

Project Manager, Communities Who Know Data Dashboard

Nancy M Watson

Managing Director, Engage Nova Scotia

Thursday October 10, 2019 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Red Rover

CONNECT, Community & Economic Developement_x000D_ Cross-cutting

Company TALKS

10:30am MDT

a) The Bay Area Equity Atlas: Data for Regional Action on Equity b) RACE COUNTS: Tracking Racial Disparities in California c) Measuring the Dream for an Equitable and Sustainable Future

a) The Bay Area Equity Atlas: Data for Regional Action on Equity (Sarah Treuhaft)
From informing the public debate to driving policy solutions, data broken down by race and geography is a key ingredient in advancing equity in communities. Yet grassroots community groups and organizers often lack access to the data they need to power their efforts. To address this gap, the San Francisco Foundation partnered with the National Equity Atlas team at PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity to build the Bay Area Equity Atlas, a comprehensive data resource that equips community leaders with 21 powerful equity metrics and policy solutions for inclusive prosperity. During this presentation, you will learn about this new tool and how community leaders throughout the region are using it to advance equity campaigns.

b) RACE COUNTS: Tracking Racial Disparities in California (Chris Ringewald, Tolu Bamishigbin) Participants will hear about how a partnership of community organizers, social justice advocates, and university researchers developed the most comprehensive community indicators initiative focused on race in California.

c) Measuring the Dream for an Equitable and Sustainable Future (Katie Oconnell, Nisha Botchwey) More than 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, what has become of his call for social, political, and economic equality for African Americans? The Measuring the Dream (MTD) project anticipates where and how communities, decision-makers, and institutions can engage to build an equitable future. The project aims to educate leaders to fully understand the nexus between the legacy of racism and the continuation of gaps in wealth, education and quality of life between White and Black Americans. This session will focus on how a broader national context. can help community indicator projects think about local equity measures

Speakers

Sarah Treuhaft

Director, PolicyLink

Katie Oconnell

Project Manager, Communities Who Know Data Dashboard

Nisha Botchwey

Georgia Institute of Technology

Chris Ringewald

Director, Research & Data Analysis, Advancement Project California

Tolu Bamishigbin

Advancement Project California

Thursday October 10, 2019 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Hopscotch

IMPACT, Equity

Company TALKS

10:30am MDT

Getting Ready for the 2020 Census

The 2020 Census is just around the corner and it is important to note the importance of this data collection activity and some of the major issues surrounding the Census. The decennial census is one of the few places where systematic and comparable neighborhood level data are provided for every community in the nation. Census data support our democratic system of government, they are used to distribute over $800 billion each year to states and localities, and Census data are used extensively in community planning. In this session, the audience will learn about a couple of tools that can be used to help achieve a more accurate Census count. The audience will also learn about two mapping applications that can be used to gain a better understanding of where hard-to-count Census tracts are located and who lives in those tracts.

Speakers

Kathleen M Kephart

CENSUS/CSM FED

Kathleen Kephart is a researcher in the Center for Behavioral Science Methods in the Research Division of the U.S. Census Bureau. She began her career at the Census Bureau in 2009 as a mathematical statistician during the 2010 Census. She has worked in Decennial evaluations and the... Read More →

William O'Hare

President/Consultant, O'Hare Data and Demographic Services, LLC

SUMMARY – More than thirty-five years of experience in statistical analysis of social and demographic data in various applied settings. Excellent at organizing and conducting quantitative research pertaining to policy questions. Good at effectively communicating complex statistical... Read More →

Steven Romalewski

Director, CUNY Mapping Service, CUNY Graduate Center

Steven Romalewski joined the City University of New York in January 2006 to launch and direct the CUNY Mapping Service as a project of the Center for Urban Research at CUNY’s Graduate Center. The Mapping Service engages with foundations, public agencies, businesses, nonprofits... Read More →

Diana Elliott

Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute

Diana Elliott is a senior research associate in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute. Her work spans many topic areas such as family financial security and economic mobility, housing affordability, apprenticeships, and ensuring a fair and accurate... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2019 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Four Square B

MEASURE, Cross-cutting

Company PANEL

11:45am MDT

Lunch

Thursday October 10, 2019 11:45am - 12:30pm MDT

Open

12:30pm MDT

These Integrated Public Data Systems Will Get Us Better Measures of Well-Being! Or Maybe Not.

Local and state governments are rapidly building ways to connect data from across their broad enterprises: records from Medicaid, social services, the schools, courts, and much more. By the Annie E. Casey’s Foundation’s estimate, nearly half the US population already lives in a jurisdiction operating one of these data trusts, with the potential to create much richer public indicators of the health and wealth of our communities. What might those indicators look like? And how can we advocate for them?

This panel will highlight examples of where linked data *has* helped to create new indicators – and discuss the different (dis)incentives for transparency and public indicator work within these public data trusts that may require advocacy from CIC members to overcome.

Panelists:

California Strong Start Index
Children’s Data Network (Regan Foust); CA First 5 Association; Heising-Simons Foundation
Indianapolis Domestic Violence Dashboard
TBD – likely Sharon Kandris, the Polis Center at IUPUI
Mapping Evictions in Charlotte
Amy Hawn Nelson, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
obo UNC Charlotte Urban Institute

Moderators

Christopher Kingsley

Annie E Casey Foundation

Speakers

Sharon Kandris

Associate Director, The Polis Center at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Sharon Kandris is the associate director of The Polis Center at IUPUI, an applied research center with a mission to help communities become healthier and more resilient. She also directs the center’s community informatics area, which designs solutions to meet the data and information... Read More →

Amy Hawn Nelson

University of Pennsylvania

Regan Faust

Thursday October 10, 2019 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

PLENARY

1:30pm MDT

Leadership Awards and Special Recognition

Thursday October 10, 2019 1:30pm - 1:50pm MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

PLENARY

1:50pm MDT

Break

Thursday October 10, 2019 1:50pm - 2:05pm MDT

Open

2:00pm MDT

a) Partnering with Everyday Democracy to Create Connection b) Ramsey County and Saint Paul’s Joint Complete Count Committee

a) Partnering with Everyday Democracy to Create Connection (Jennifer Anderson-Ochoa, Susan Brutshcy) Santa Cruz County is utilizing information collected via the Community Assessment Project and other initiatives to have data-informed conversations about race and equity. In this presentation we will explore how individual, community, program and population level data is opening space for residents in Santa Cruz County to connect, build trust, and problem-solve together with an equity lens.
b) Ramsey County and Saint Paul’s Joint Complete Count Committee (Jolie Wood, Toni Newborn) This presentation will provide a case study of how the most diverse, urban county in Minnesota has been working with the community, municipalities, neighboring counties, and the state to prepare for a census that may be the most challenging in recent history. Early in 2018, Ramsey County and the City of Saint Paul began working together to form a joint Complete Count Committee (CCC). We held our first CCC meeting with 25 members of the community and local municipalities in October 2018. At the second meeting in January, 45 people gathered and formed seven subcommittees: Renters, People of Color, Immigrants and Refugees, Education, Business, Seniors, and Homeless. Each subcommittee created an action plan for the next 16 months. Since then, subcommittees have met monthly, worked their networks, recruited new members, and begun outreach. This presentation will discuss the challenges as well as opportunities, in terms of resources, recruitment of diverse voices, equity in representation, and messaging that is inclusive and responsive. We are creating relationships among stakeholders who are dedicated to building greater trust in the census, broader awareness of how it affects all of us, and higher motivation to participate. We hope to nurture and build upon these relationships beyond April 2020, as we deepen all our community engagement efforts.

Speakers

Toni Newborn

Chief Equity Officer, City of Saint Paul

Jennifer Anderson-Ochoa

Project Manager, Applied Survey Research

Susan Brutschy

President, Applied Survey Research

Ms. Brutschy is the co-founder and President of Applied Survey Research, a non-profit community research organization. She is an experienced sociologist and has spearheaded the development and implementation of hundreds of social research projects over the course of her 35-year career... Read More →

Jolie Wood

Policy Analyst, Ramsey County

Thursday October 10, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm MDT
Red Rover

CONNECT, Equity Cross-cutting

Company TALKS

2:00pm MDT

Community Foundations and Community Indicators - Exploring How Place Based Funders Engage With Local Data

Speakers

Frank Ridzi

Vice President Community Investment / Assoc Prof, Central New York Community Foundation and Le Moyne College

Frank Ridzi, PhD, MPA, is Vice President for Community Investment at the Central New York Community Foundation, Associate Professor of Sociology at Le Moyne College and President of the Board of Directors for the Community Indicators Consortium. Frank has helped to launch and lead... Read More →

Nadege Souvenir

Vice President of Operations & Learning, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Nadege Souvenir is vice president of Operations & Learning for the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. In her role, she oversees grants administration, Human Resources, IT, and learning and evaluation. In 2016, Nadege launched East Metro Pulse, a community vitality survey and report... Read More →

Chris Barge

VP of Strategic Initiatives, Community Foundation Boulder County

Chris Barge helps The Community Foundation enhance its impact on Boulder County's greatest needs through community based initiatives. His current projects include spinning off a Latino parent engagement program into an independent nonprofit as well as directing our biennial Trends... Read More →

Ella Fahrlander

Thursday October 10, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm MDT
Hopscotch

IMPACT

Company PANEL

2:00pm MDT

a) The Power of Local Data in Communicating Health Disparities: Lessons from the City Health Dashboard b) Tracking-Progress Across Canada: Using the Tracking-Progress Platform to Digitize Vital Signs Report

a) The Power of Local Data in Communicating Health Disparities: Lessons from the City Health Dashboard (Becky Ofrane) City leaders and policymakers need reliable, local data to craft policies and programs, but challenges exist in making relevant data available to them. The City Health Dashboard is an online resource with over 35 measures of health and its drivers for the 500 largest US cities. The data dashboard strikes a balance between accessibility and rigor, demonstrating the power of local data in communicating health disparities to multiple audiences.

b) Tracking-Progress Across Canada: Using the Tracking-Progress Platform to Digitize Vital Signs Report (Kyle Wiebe) The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)’s customizable Tracking-Progress platform transforms data into accessible and interactive displays (maps, graphs and charts) for leaders and community members to track issues that matter locally. By bringing the CFC’s Vital Signs reporting online to the tracking-progress platform, the IISD and CFC intend to improve the effective communication of data to residents, community organizations, universities and colleges, government leaders and community foundations so they can take action and direct resources where they will have the greatest impact. This session will share experiences on the technical development of the tool, how consensus building was integrated into the design of the platform s and how the IISD is using training to improve the capacity of community foundations to build internal organizational resilience and promote the sustainability of community indicators systems.

Speakers

Kyle Wiebe

IISD

Becky Ofrane, MPH

Manager of Engagement and Partnerships, City Health Dashboard - NYU School of Medicine, Department of Population Health

Public health professional focused on health data, health disparities, environmental health, maternal child health and birth outcomes.

CityHealthDashboard Ofrane pdf

Thursday October 10, 2019 2:00pm - 2:55pm MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

COMMUNICATE

Company TALKS

2:00pm MDT

Aligning Civic Health Strategies and 2020 Census

Georgia Family Connection Partnership has aligned state and local civic health work with efforts to obtain a complete count for the 2020 Census. We believe that being counted is a critical step in being civically engaged in one’s community. This presentation will describe the process of our local civic health data collection and local strategy development, present state-level civic health findings, and describe our 2020 Census work with efforts to improve civic health across the state.

Speakers

Jill Vanderhoek

Community Partnership- Bibb County Family Connection

Michael Scuello

Senior Associate, Metis Associates

Rebekah Hudgins

Director of Research and Evaluation, AnthroEval Consulting, LLC

I am committed to utilizing the intersection of anthropology, epidemiology and evaluation to help explore and find solutions to social issues of our time, especially those related to health and well-being.

Rebecca Rice

Georgia Family Connection Partnership

Thursday October 10, 2019 2:00pm - 2:55pm MDT
Four Square B

MEASURE, Cross-cutting

Company PANEL

3:00pm MDT

a) Communicating Data with ESRI Story Maps b) Structuring Engagement to Enable Community Collaboration

a) Communicating Data with ESRI Story Maps (Mohammad Yusri Jamaluddin) The session will go through an introduction of ESRI Story Maps, the concept of storytelling with data, as well as examples of how communities and governments agencies in Michigan have utilized Story Maps to communicate their community development efforts.

b) Structuring Engagement to Enable Community Collaboration (Jay Dev) Over 2,000 governments are using ArcGIS Hub, a geospatial platform for effective open data sharing and community collaboration. In this talk, we will share the concept and capabilities of this platform and share the work of several municipalities that are using data-driven initiatives to improve internal coordination across departments and coordinated action with community groups and constituents.

Speakers

M. Yusri Jamaluddin

Data Specialist, Community Food & Environment Institute, Michigan State University Extension

Jay Dev

Product Engineer - Civic Tech, Esri

Jay Dev is a Product Engineer, focusing on Civic Tech, on Esri's ArcGIS Hub team. He works to better integrate digital engagement and analytical insights into the platform. Previously, Jay worked on using visualization and storytelling to connect civic data to communities to help... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2019 3:00pm - 3:55pm MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

COMMUNICATE, Cross-cutting

Company TALKS

3:00pm MDT

a) What Has Happened Since Peg Incorporated the Sustainable Development Goals? – New Conversations, Partnerships, and Ways of Working b) MAP Dashboard: Moving Southern Arizona from Data to Action through Community Connections

a) What Has Happened Since Peg Incorporated the Sustainable Development Goals? – New Conversations, Partnerships, and Ways of Working (Stefan Jungcurt) At the 2018 Community Indicators Consortium Impact Summit, Peg was excited to share that the Sustainable Development Goals had been incorporated into the system. This year, Peg is eager to report on how, within a short period of time, this approach is changing conversations, engaging new partners, and transforming ways of working. The objective of the presentation is to inspire attendees about the potential of incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals and provide examples of how the Peg community indicator system is benefitting from doing so.
b) MAP Dashboard: Moving Southern Arizona from Data to Action through Community Connections (Jennifer Pullen) This presentation will use education data provided on the MAP Dashboard to highlight how we connect with our partners, stakeholders, and local community. The discussion will include examples of how disaggregated data on the MAP led to action that resulted in change within our region.

Speakers

Stefan Jungcurt

Lead SDG Indicators and Monitoring, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Jennifer Pullen

Research Economist and Program Coordinator, MAP Dashboard, Economic and Business Research Center, University of Arizona

As a research economist in the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, Jennifer is currently project manager and analyst for the Making Action Possible (MAP) Dashboard. The MAP Dashboard was created to measurably improve... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2019 3:00pm - 3:55pm MDT
Red Rover

CONNECT, Cross-cutting Education

Company TALKS

3:00pm MDT

a) Concretize Community Conditions in Indicators and Annualized Targets to Advance Racial Equity Agenda b) Coordinating Community Indicators with $30 million in Economic Inclusion Grants: A Study in CI-PM Integration

a) Concretize Community Conditions in Indicators and Annualized Targets to Advance Racial Equity Agenda (Huilan Krenn) In this session, we will demonstrate a real-life example of a hybrid model an international foundation created/used to capture the community-specific conditions change under the umbrella of foundation-wide strategic plan, through indicators; all for the purpose of exposing and eliminating racial disparities in traditionally under-served communities of color
b) Coordinating Community Indicators with $30 million in Economic Inclusion Grants: A Study in CI-PM Integration (Luis Escoboza and Frank Ridzi) In this session we show how community indicators projects encourage civic participation and direct resources toward making change by focusing on the case of several counties where public participation sessions highlighted areas of need and on the data infrastructure that was built to monitor the awarding of $30 million in anti-poverty and economic inclusion grants. We will describe the data infrastructure with important insights on how grant reporting can be coordinated with broader community data so that program evaluation and community indicators can be united through a Results Based Accountability approach.

Speakers

Frank Ridzi

Vice President Community Investment / Assoc Prof, Central New York Community Foundation and Le Moyne College

Luis Escoboza

Data Analyst, Onondaga County Department of Children and Family Services

Huilan Krenn

Director of Learning & Impact, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Prior to being Director of Learning & Impact, Dr. Huilan Krenn was director of evaluation for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She is responsible for leading and managing activities in support of all WKKF programming areas and helping the organization measure and understand the outcomes... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2019 3:00pm - 3:55pm MDT
Hopscotch

IMPACT

Company TALKS

3:00pm MDT

Right scaling data for equity: a) Data disaggregation to provide information for Minnesota’s diverse cultural communities b) Identifying inequalities in access to early care and education services

a) Data disaggregation to provide information for Minnesota’s diverse cultural communities (Allison Liuzzi, Jacob Wascalus) Minnesota is home to rich and diverse cultural communities. In 2019, Minnesota Compass (www.mncompass.org) launched new cultural community at-a-glance profiles. Relying on data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS USA), the profiles provide demographic information and quality-of-life outcomes for 12 of the largest cultural communities in Minnesota. This presentation will focus on methodologies used to identify cultural communities, strengths and limitations of information provided by the profiles, and plans for further development and refinement.
b) The King County Health Disparities Dashboard: Data for Measuring Health Equity (Mariko Toyoji, Sara Jaye Sanford) - Racial/ethnic health disparities are higher rates of serious health conditions or deaths that affect communities of color. These disparities can result in shorter lifespans and lower quality of life, are rooted in inequities in the opportunities and resources needed for good health, such as education, employment, safe and healthy neighborhoods, and access to health care. These inequities are often the result of current and historical institutionalized racism or explicit racial bias. The King County Health Disparities Dashboard documents how much specific disparities affect communities of color in King County. Using relative rate ratios, the dashboard shows social determinants of health and health outcomes data for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander residents in King County, compared to whites or the King County average. We hope that this information rich dashboard will be used as a tool to identify health disparities and inform local health equity work.

Speakers

Mariko Toyoji

Epidemiologist, Communities Count/Public Health Seattle and King County

I am an epidemiologist at Public Health Seattle and King County where I manage the Communities Count program providing local data and evaluation technical assistance services to advance equity work in King County.

Sara Jaye Sanford

Communities Count/Public Health Seattle and King County

Allison Liuzzi

Research Manager, Wilder

Jacob Wascalus

Research Scientist, Wilder Research, Minnesota Compass

The opportunity to use data to examine the sticky problems that people face gets me to work every day, and I genuinely enjoy breaking down and communicating any insights I may uncover in my research. But what really energizes me are the solutions. Talk to me about effective policies... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2019 3:00pm - 3:55pm MDT
Four Square B

MEASURE, Equity Children & Family

Company TALKS

4:00pm MDT

a) Target Setting in Rochester NY: Resistance or Results b) Harnessing the Performing Arts to Build Participatory, Sustainable Communities: The Modernity Index

Target Setting in Rochester NY: Resistance or Results (Ann Johnson)
Since 2017 ACT Rochester has been facilitating and coordinating the launch of a community scorecard with multiple community partners. This three-year pilot will measure the well-being of individuals and the community, focusing on income, health and education for the City of Rochester, Monroe County, and Monroe County without the City. This scorecard will prioritize major measures of community outcomes, monitor annual progress against three-year targets, and align with local collective impact initiatives and funders to call our community to action leveraging efforts and resources in our community.

Harnessing the Performing Arts to Build Participatory, Sustainable Communities: The Modernity Index (Nancy Bertaux and Kaleel Skeirik)
We have collected data on modernity of works presented for key music, theatre and dance organizations in Cincinnati, Ohio. We have analyzed this data, utilizing our original Modernity Index model, and linking aggregate modernity index values to measures of the city’s sustainability and vitality. Our policy recommendations include developing and expanding initiatives to increase the number of contemporary works presented.

Speakers

Ann Johnson

Executive Director, ACT Rochester

Ann Johnson, ACT Rochester director for over nine years, has extensive leadership experience in business, government, education and the non-profit sector. She is highly effective at building and leveraging relationships to maximize productivity and drive positive change.A native of... Read More →

Nancy Bertaux

Professor, Xavier University

2019 10 10 Community Scorecard Target Setting Resistance or Results FINAL pptx

Thursday October 10, 2019 4:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
Hopscotch

IMPACT, Cross-cutting

Company TALKS

4:00pm MDT

Denveright: Mapping the Future of Denver

With Denveright, the City of Denver used a variety of novel community engagement methods, including a participatory mapping game called Growing a Better Denver, to have an in-depth conversation with the residents of Denver and develop five citywide plans laying out a 20-year vision for development, mobility, parks, sustainability, and equity. This presentation will discuss what data were gathered from the community, how it was used to shape the process and the outcomes, and what lessons were learned.

Speakers

David Gaspers

Principal City Planner, City of Denver

Lizzie Friend, Community Insights Program Manager

Community Insights Manager, City of Denver

CIC Denveright 101019 pdf

Thursday October 10, 2019 4:00pm - 4:50pm MDT
Red Rover

CONNECT

Company WORKSHOP

4:00pm MDT

Pecha Kucha Session

Fast-paced presentations on a variety of subjects related to community indicators -- the common element being the ability to communicate a complex issue into a series of quickly-advancing slides.

Building Community with Participation of Multi-Stakeholders by Utilizing Community Indicators －Mutual Learning between US and Japan (Masako Hasegawa)

Designing Knowledge Management for the greater good (Edwin K. Morris)

Join and discover how knowledge handling can be a "de-politicizing" capacity in elected government structures; strengthening KM as a pillar of democracy. Impacts to operations, decision making, and succession planning may not be understood by the citizens very well. Municipalities in the US are reliant on politicized systems. The knowledge inefficiencies they experience are like any other industry but can be more complicated by political party affiliations. I introduce Knowledge Management as a cool visual story. Ask yourself this question; Would you consider your next move to a town that has a high KM rating versus a town that does not? We are empowering municipal KM structures using the ISO 30401:2018 KM Systems.

3. Is Minnesota Doing Enough to Prepare Every Student for a Bright Future? (Peg Thomas)

4.Pop Forward! Re-imagining commercial corridor redevelopment (Christyn Freemon)

5. Representing US: Indicators for America's 435 Congressional Districts (Craig Helmstetter)

6. You’re not in the Picture if You’re not in the Frame: Prepare to be Counted! (Gregg Bell)We are empowering municipal KM structures using the ISO 30401 KM Systems.

Speakers

Christyn S. Freemon

Chief Solutionist, Project Forward

Ms. Henson is a creative economic development professional and develops actionable strategies that assist clients in growth through business planning, operational support, marketing, and sales strategies. Ms. Henson’s extensive experience includes work with community development... Read More →

Peg Thomas

Executive Director, Sundance Family Foundation

I have been managing a Youth Social Entrepreneurship (YSE) "earn and learn" model where nonprofit youth training programs support the recruitment and retention needs of local employers and manufacturers. We make the connections.

Craig Helmstetter

Managing Partner, APM Research Lab, American Public Media

Past president, Community Indicators Consortium's Board of Directors, and Managing Partner, APM Research Lab

Gregg Bell

Senior Data Analyst, The University of Alabama

Data access makes me happy.

Edwin K. Morris

President, Pioneer Knowledge Services

Mr. Morris is the president and founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services (PKS), a non-profit organization with a charitable Knowledge Management purpose. PKS involves clients in customizing knowledge solutions and training to cultivate an organizational disposition and culture that values... Read More →

Masako Hasegawa

CSO Network Japan

Pioneer Knowledge Services Pecha Kucha Style Community Indicators Consortium pptx

Thursday October 10, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

COMMUNICATE

4:00pm MDT

a) USALEEP: Reflections on collaboration and innovation to assess life expectancy at the community level b) Identifying inequalities in access to early care and education services

a) USALEEP: Reflections on collaboration and innovation to assess life expectancy at the community level (Kirk Bol) - From the question “can we come up with a single measure of health to explore community-level health across the country?” to the launch of estimates of life expectancy at the census tract level, the US Small Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) is a success born of collaboration and innovation. This presentation will reflect on this success, jurisdictional and other uses of the USALEEP estimates, and the opportunities for ongoing promotion and use of this important tool.

b) Identifying inequalities in access to early care and education services (Javzandulam Azuma, Sarah Yuan, Yvette Stern) Measuring children’s accessibility to early care and education (ECE) services has become increasingly important, and it underscore the need for strategic investments in an early childhood system. There are many factors that influence whether a family can access the care they need or want. However, the most significant factors affecting access to ECE services are relationship between supply and demand of services, affordability of enrolling children into programs, and distance to programs from home. This presentation aims to introduce two measures on accessibility to ECE based on a GIS-based floating catchment area method and publicly available data. Using these indicators, we identified inequalities and gaps in access to ECE services at the community and subcounty level. Accessibility refers to both of spatial accessibility and affordability. Spatial accessibility measures the extent to which an ECE provider has the supply to meet the demand within a certain catchment area, and affordability is determined by how much of total family income is spent per child on ECE services within the catchment area. These measures offer an effective way for ECE advocates to identify communities with poor spatial accessibility and affordability, and prioritize needs across communities that require expansions of supply and other mechanisms such as subsidies and scholarships to improve access to high quality ECE for all children.

Speakers

Javzandulam Azuma

Data analyst, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

I’m a data analyst, specializing in GIS, Remote Sensing, and their applications. My research interests include developing methods and modeling to address various issues in spatial, social, and environmental science, using a combination of multiple tools including remote sensing... Read More →

Sarah Yuan

Speicalist, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

I am a sociologist, specializing in needs assessment, program evaluation, and survey methodology. I have been involved with social indicators work for almost 15 years. My other areas of interests include health promotion, aging, and homelessness.

Ivette Stern

Junior Specialist, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

I am a social worker by training, now specializing in macro level practice related to child and family well-being. My work integrates research and extension activities and focuses on assessing and evaluating the conditions of children and families in Hawai‘i through the use of program... Read More →

Kirk Bol

MSPH Manager, Vital Statistics Program, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

The Center for Health and Environmental Data strives to provide timely, innovative and high-quality public health data collection, analysis and reporting services to drive evidence-based decisions, translate data into action and support policy development to protect and improve the... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Four Square B

MEASURE

6:00pm MDT

Reception

Thursday October 10, 2019 6:00pm - 7:30pm MDT
Four Square A

7:45am MDT

Breakfast

Friday October 11, 2019 7:45am - 9:00am MDT

Open

8:00am MDT

Affinity Group Meeting: Academia

Friday October 11, 2019 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Four Square B

Company ROUNDTABLE

8:00am MDT

Affinity Group Meeting: Community Indicators/Performance Measure Integration

Friday October 11, 2019 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Hopscotch

Company ROUNDTABLE

8:00am MDT

Affinity Group Meeting: Place-Based Funders

Friday October 11, 2019 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

Company ROUNDTABLE

8:00am MDT

Affinity Group Meeting: Sustaining the Work

Friday October 11, 2019 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Red Rover

Company ROUNDTABLE

8:00am MDT

Affinity Group: Local Governments

Friday October 11, 2019 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

Open

9:00am MDT

Plenary Panel: Getting Good Data into the Public Sphere/Ensuring public's access to information

Community indicators projects and the media have enjoyed a long partnership. Journalists use data produced by community indicators projects as background information and community indicators rely on newspapers, TV and radio to share important findings from their research into community data. With the faltering of local media, the erosion of trust in public institutions, and ready access to real and fake data at everyone's fingertips, data producers are looking for new kinds of partnerships and new models to get good data into the public sphere. This panel will explore how the media is adapting, new approaches data professionals are developing to increase their visibility, and the role of philanthropy as we move to new models.

Moderators

Allison Liuzzi

Research Manager, Wilder

Speakers

Rossana Longo Better

Journalist, Community Radio Station KGNU

Melissa Milios Davis

Vice President – Strategic Communications & Informed Communities, Gates Family Foundation

Melissa (she/her) joined the Gates Family Foundation in May 2017. Her primary role is to bring greater visibility to the work of the Foundation’s grantees and partners, to facilitate knowledge sharing, and to amplify the quality of life issues and ideas of greatest concern to the... Read More →

Andrew Kenney

Denver Post

Friday October 11, 2019 9:00am - 9:55am MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

PLENARY

10:00am MDT

a) Rising from the rubble: Re-imagining a more equitable news and information ecosystem in Boulder County, CO b) Data accessibility as a pathway to genuine equality for Atlanta’s westside communities

a) Rising from the rubble: Re-imagining a more equitable news and information ecosystem in Boulder County, CO (Chris Barge) Local journalism across the U.S. is struggling to find ways to not only survive, but to thrive. Faced with shrinking budgets, ownership that values profit above all, and, often, a legacy of failing to reflect and serve diverse sectors of the community, the future of local journalism is unsure.Boulder County, CO, reflects these national trends. And the area is also nearly 15% self-identifying Hispanic or Latino/a and growing, many of whom speak Spanish as a first language.Community Foundation Boulder County, through two years of deep listening in the community, has come to understand that there is both a need and an opportunity for deeply reported local stories that cross diverse sectors of the community, reflecting the lived reality of those community members that is often not covered in local media.Come hear how this community foundation is using two decades of community indicators reporting as a cornerstone of a new, Equity Reporting Initiative. It begins now, with a podcast debuting in October, 2019, that dives deep into the community's most pressing issues. Future plans include an Equity Reporting Lab that will provide training and financial support for enterprise reporting on these issues; plus a Solutions Fund, which would allow the foundation to accelerate the community's response to issues raised by the reporting, through convenings, advocacy, organizing and grants to organizations addressing these issues.
b) Data accessibility as a pathway to genuine equality for Atlanta’s westside communities (Katie OConnell) Data is a dominant force during the decision-making process. It can help determine which roads to expand and the optimal location for a grocery store. Data can also be used to influence which schools to shutter and “appropriate” city services to discontinue. Considered fact-based, objective, and impartial, data often trumps emotional appeals during the final evaluation of a project; thus creating a power imbalance between those with the resources to access data and those without. The Communities Who Know Data Dashboard works to build and sustain relationships among constituencies located in West Atlanta with the goal to strengthen partnerships around issues of common concern. By allowing West Atlanta advocacy groups to easily retrieve data, the CWK Data Dashboard empowers residents, nonprofits, and neighborhood associations to be full participants in the decision-making process

Speakers

Katie Oconnell

Project Manager, Communities Who Know Data Dashboard

Chris Barge

VP of Strategic Initiatives, Community Foundation Boulder County

Friday October 11, 2019 10:00am - 10:55am MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

COMMUNICATE, Equity_x000D_ Education_x000D_ Community & Economic Developement

Company TALKS

10:00am MDT

A Theory of Change to Increase Civic Participation and Representation in Public Planning

Across systems, public planning and decision making are often disconnected from culture and community. To ensure the development of equitable policies, a cross-sector collaboration created and implemented a new theory of change to increase civic participation and representation in public planning processes. The model employs a three-pronged approach that moves through leadership development, inclusive planning, and decision-making. The collaboration and resulting program examined the intersection between adaptations to the built environment and social determinants of health.

Speakers

Danielle Burrell

BUILD Health Mobility Fellow & Principal Consultant, Treux North Wellness

Ifátùmínínú Bamgbàlà Arẹ̀sà

The New NOLA Project

Tanya Renee James

Leadership Development Consultant, Center for Effective Community Programming

Tanya James is the Executive Director of Central City Renaissance Alliance and Founder of Strategic Outcomes, LLC. Ms. James is an agile facilitator, dynamic trainer, and respected community engagement strategist who inspires and empowers people to lead as a way of life. Ms. James... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2019 10:00am - 10:55am MDT
Red Rover

CONNECT, Cross-cutting

Company PANEL

10:00am MDT

a) The Politics of Health: Assessing the Impact of Political Ideology on Health in American Cities b) Is it Working? Using triangulation to focus efforts and measure impact

a) The Politics of Health: Assessing the Impact of Political Ideology on Health in American Cities (Emma Connell)
What is the impact of political ideology on health when comparing across cities? How does a city’s health change as its political ideology shifts?

This study analyzes the impact of political ideology at the MSA level on a series of eight health indicators and implications for policy and research.

b) Is it Working? Using triangulation to focus efforts and measure impact (Debbie Balch)
Some Quality of Life/Community Indicator efforts are heavy on metadata and light on resident input, providing an interesting but incomplete picture overall.

Elevated Insights will share a visual and engaging case study of 2019 Age Friendly Research, highlighting how they triangulated metadata, quantitative and qualitative resident feedback to impact and measure Age Friendly efforts in Colorado Springs.

Speakers

Debbie Balch

President, Elevated Insights

As founder & President of Elevated Insights, Debbie focuses on helping organizations identify needs and maximize the impact of programs and efforts. She brings over 25 years of experience delivering strategic research approaches and a high level of consumer understanding to multiple... Read More →

Emma Connell

Research Associate, Wilder Research

Friday October 11, 2019 10:00am - 10:55am MDT
Hopscotch

IMPACT, Health & Wellbeing Cross-cutting

Company TALKS

10:00am MDT

a) H2O IQ & EQ: New indicators of what the American public knows and feels about water b) Sustainability Indicators for Small and Rural Communities: Development of DISC (Decision Integration for Stronger Communities)

a) H2O IQ & EQ: New indicators of what the American public knows and feels about water (Craig Helmstetter) Experts know that water resources are threatened by everything from pollution and aging infrastructure to over-use and climate change. But what does the public know? And how does it feel about water? In this session we'll share the results of a ground-breaking new survey on water IQ (intelligence quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient).
b) Sustainability Indicators for Small and Rural Communities: Development of DISC (Decision Integration for Stronger Communities) (James Summers) The Decision Integration for Strong Communitis (DISC) application offers relevant and readily-available information to assist smaller communities to address their sustainabillity goals. Small towns and rural communities are looking for ways to strengthen their economies, provide better quality of life, and build on local assets. They are creating their own paths to sustainability that enhance their distinctive characteristics and that fit their size, geography, and resources. In a series of discussions with smaller communities (

Speakers

Craig Helmstetter

Managing Partner, APM Research Lab, American Public Media

Past president, Community Indicators Consortium's Board of Directors, and Managing Partner, APM Research Lab

James Summers

Senior Research Ecologist, US EPA

Friday October 11, 2019 10:00am - 10:55am MDT
Four Square B

MEASURE, Environment & Climate Health & Wellbeing Equity

Company TALKS

11:00am MDT

Strategies for Community Data Groups to Support a 2020 Census Complete Count

In this proposed panel, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership will discuss strategies for data-driven planning for 2020 Census local outreach to ensure a complete count of historically undercounted populations and how you can play a role in your community.

Speakers

Olivia Arena

Research Analyst, Urban Institute

Olivia Arena is a research analyst in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, DC.

Donavan Lee-Sin

Chief Public Policy & Community Engagement Officer, The Children's Trust

Laura McKieran

Executive Director, Community Information Now

Friday October 11, 2019 11:00am - 11:55am MDT
Red Rover

CONNECT, Cross-cutting

Company PANEL

11:00am MDT

a) Municipal Measurement of the Triple Bottom Line: Capturing Anticipated Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts b) Indicators of Personal Agency to measure urban youth work readiness programs

a) Municipal Measurement of the Triple Bottom Line: Capturing Anticipated Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts (Katie Ricketts) Getting municipal project managers to think about policy and programmatic impacts outside of their (often) narrow area of expertise can be a challenge. Getting City Council and Executive Leadership to digest distilled but complicated information that accurately reflects the trade-offs along economic, social and environmental aspects might be even harder. At the City of Fort Collins, our internal Triple Bottom Line Scan (TBL-S) team has spent the last 5 years using a human-centered design approach for developing a functional, municipal TBL-S decision making tool that integrates the needs of busy, overwhelmed program managers while also illuminating a diverse set of tensions and potential impacts for Council and executive leadership to consider. We want share the lessons we've learned, the failures we've had, and the successes we've achieved as we've fine-tuned our tool for internal policy and decision-making when trade-offs along social, economic and environmental constraints must be considered.
b) Indicators of Personal Agency to measure urban youth work readiness programs (Peg Thomas) The Youth Social Entrepreneurship (YSE) Model used by nonprofits: youth-centric, youth-led business or community social initiatives that include the development of entrepreneurial thought, community engagement, social-emotional learning and workforce readiness, has proven to be evidence-based as the result of a 24-month study with 11 programs serving almost 900 youth. Specific gains in youth personal agency are remarkable. The study has implications for indicators used in future studies.

Speakers

Katie Ricketts

Senior Evaluation Specialist, City of Fort Collins

I’m a behavioral economist interested in how individuals and institutions interact and make decisions--especially around complex social policy issues relating to economic inequality and poverty. This interest has led me to do a lot of interesting and purposeful work with international... Read More →

Peg Thomas

Executive Director, Sundance Family Foundation

Friday October 11, 2019 11:00am - 11:55am MDT
Hopscotch

IMPACT, Cross-cutting

Company TALKS

11:00am MDT

The Power of Collaboration in Data Collection: The Struggle is Real

A little about us...Our work in Community Benefit at BayCare has involved spearheading a four county collaborative of all not-for-profit hospitals and county health departments to design and implement a community-wide survey capturing the perceptions and opinions of our community that includes questions on social determinants as well as adverse childhood experiences. As we near the end of the collection process we are estimating over 17,000 completed surveys with a strong representation across all demographics. The opportunity to collect such powerful data from our community has brought about incredible, diverse community support and we look forward to sharing details of this effort, our results, and next steps as a collaborative at the 2019 Summit.

Speakers

Lisa Bell

Manager, Community Benefit, BayCare Health System

Colleen Mangan

Community Benefit Analyst

Friday October 11, 2019 11:00am - 11:55am MDT
Four Square B

MEASURE, Equity_x000D_ Cross-cutting

Company WORKSHOP

11:00am MDT

Data Parties: Giving Community Tools to Use East Metro Pulse Survey Data

Data parties are a great participatory data analysis tool Wilder Research and the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundations used to engage community around the East Metro Pulse survey. Come learn more about how you can use data parties as a tool to help people engage with and use your data set!

Speakers

Sheila Bell

Wilder Research

Emma Connell

Research Associate, Wilder Research

Nadege Souvenir

Vice President of Operations & Learning, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Friday October 11, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

COMMUNICATE, Cross-cutting

Company WORKSHOP

12:00pm MDT

Lunch

Friday October 11, 2019 12:00pm - 12:45pm MDT

Open

12:45pm MDT

A Conversation with Kenneth Prewitt, moderated by Tina Grigio

Journalist Tina Griego will interview Kenneth Prewitt, a former Director of the US Census Bureau, on a variety of topics related to Professor Prewitt's research on ethnoracial classification in national statistics and the use of science as evidence in policy making.

Speakers

Kenneth Prewitt

Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

A former Director of the US Census Bureau, Kenneth Prewitt is Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His research includes the use of ethnoracial classification in national statistics. He has authored or co-authored... Read More →

Tina Griego

Managing Editor/Columnist, Colorado Independent

Friday October 11, 2019 12:45pm - 1:45pm MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

PLENARY

1:45pm MDT

Impact Awards

Friday October 11, 2019 1:45pm - 2:00pm MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

PLENARY

2:00pm MDT

Break

Friday October 11, 2019 2:00pm - 2:15pm MDT

Open

2:15pm MDT

Considering Health: a) What's Health Got to Do With It? b) A Colorado Health Equity Data and Storytelling Platform: Harnessing the Power of Communities

Considering Health:
a) What's Health Got to Do With It? (Emma Connell, Paul Mattessich) In this session, we will primarily discuss our process of identifying, compiling, and analyzing health and economic indicators for a study of how health impacts a community’s economic vitality. We will also discuss implications and opportunities for other organizations interested in doing similar work.
b) A Colorado Health Equity Data and Storytelling Platform: Harnessing the Power of Communities (Jennifer Newcomer) The Colorado Trust believes that everyone deserves the chance to grow up healthy and thrive. Yet, this is not the reality for many of Colorado’s residents, largely due to where they happen to live, or the color of their skin. Over the past several years, The Colorado Trust has been working with Shift Research Lab to develop an approach to engage communities across Colorado for the development of an innovative online platform that will share compelling data and stories in ways that help promote health equity. Pilot implementation is beginning this year. This platform will share Colorado-focused, community-level data on health inequities and the underlying systemic factors that create inequities. By elevating information that is responsive and appropriate for each community, including the integration of stories depicting life experiences of residence in communities, data-driven decisions can be made that are crucial for realizing the vision of fair and equal opportunity for all residents to achieve good health. This session will focus on sharing the current process to engage a larger end-user base to inform the project, connecting existing efforts, including build the base of stewardship across the state that will be a necessary component for impact, as well as sharing Shift’s role as the data and research-backbone for the platform.

Speakers

Emma Connell

Research Associate, Wilder Research

Paul Mattessich

Executive Director, Wilder Research

Paul W. Mattessich, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Wilder Research, which is one of the largest, nonpartisan research organizations in the United States dedicated to studying the effectiveness of human service, public health, and education programs and supporting their improvement... Read More →

Jennifer Newcomer

Director, Shift Research Lab

Jennifer Newcomer is the director at Shift Research Lab, which is a program of The Piton Foundation. She leads Shift’s efforts to transform data into actionable information that improves the social sector’s ability to serve Colorado’s low-income communities. Through its products... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:05pm MDT
Red Rover

CONNECT, Cross-cutting Health & Wellbeing Equity

Company TALKS

2:15pm MDT

a) Making data count for state legislators and constituents b) "Scenario planning for resiliency planning"

a) Making data count for state legislators and constituents (Ina Cernusca, Karen Olson) Legislators need reliable, local data to craft policies and programs, but challenges exist in making relevant data available to them. This presentation will share lessons learned across the process of developing, disseminating, and evaluating the impact of state legislative district profiles.

b) Resiliency Planning in Conservative Communities (Stephen Buckman)
How to plan and work with politically conservative and antagonistic communities who are often opposed to land use changes and property restrictions? Planners are well trained to see ways to make the urban form “better” but we often overlook the fact that many people simple do not want what is proposed. Thus this presentation will be based in research which centers on resiliency planning, demographic sorting, climate change narratives, anti-Agenda 21 debates, and community empowerment and will further examine the case study of three politically conservative Lake Michigan communities who participated in a resilient master planning process.

Speakers

Stephen Buckman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Urban Planning & Partner at DSD, Clemson University, Department of City Planning and Real Estate Development

Ina Cernusca

ND Compass Project Director, ND Compass/ Center for Social Research, NDSU

Ina Cernusca is the project director for North Dakota Compass and a research specialist within the Center for Social Research located at North Dakota State University (NDSU). With extensive experience in market and social research, she has participated in many projects that involved... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:10pm MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

COMMUNICATE, Cross-cutting

2:15pm MDT

a) Informing ACTion Together b) 2019 ConnectUP! State of the Work Report

a) Informing ACTion Together (Ann Johnson) During 2019, ACT Rochester celebrates A Decade of IMPACT, reflecting on the variety of indicators, partners and deliverables that propelled us forward.Being valued as a trusted data provider, neutral convener and advocate for change is not an easy task. The community indicator journey includes lessons learned along with celebrations of success and often requires being “The Agitator.”

b) 2019 ConnectUP! State of the Work Report (Elaine Rasmussen, Stephanie Lewis) As the first ConnectUP! State of the Work Report, the goal is to provide a baseline of information that is informed by qualitative and quantitative data that has been collected over the past year and a half. The report will highlight the barriers, challenges, issues and triumphs faced by women, people of color, LGBTQ and other underestimated entrepreneurs in Minnesota. Data collected in this inaugural report is also intended to provide a cursory overview of the entrepreneur ecosystem, which currently has limited quantitative data and has systematically invalidated, overlooked and untapped, the perspective of the communities the data is intended to represent. This report intentionally honors such qualitative data by recognizing that much of the information contained inside these pages are the voices, experiences, knowledge, stories, and traditions of women, people of color, LGBTQ, Indigenous, rural, immigrant and other underestimated communities.

Speakers

Ann Johnson

Executive Director, ACT Rochester

Stephannie L. Lewis

Director, Strategic Partnerships, Social Impact Strategies Group

Stephannie brings more than 10 years of combined experience in project management, program management, operations, public policy research and consulting to her role as Strategic Partnerships Manager at Social Impact Strategies Group (SISG). She brings high energy, passion and a spirit... Read More →

Elaine Elaine Rasmussen

CEO, Social Impact Strategies Group

Elaine Rasmussen is Founder and CEO of Social Impact Strategies Group (SISG) a Black/Native-led certified B-corp social enterprise. SISG provides futurism, social impact and economic development consulting, education workshops for investors and womxn entrepreneurs, and produces the... Read More →

2019 10 11 FINAL Informing ACTion Together pptx

Friday October 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:10pm MDT
Hopscotch

IMPACT, Cross-cutting Equity Community & Economic Development

Company TALKS

2:15pm MDT

Using Cell Phones to Survey Youth and Families: Lessons from Citizens' Committee for Children

This workshop will share lessons from a pilot cell phone survey conducted in NYC, presenting an interactive overview and opening discussion on the promise and pitfalls of cell phones as a tool for data collection and outreach.

Note to attendees: As we will be interacting with a demo survey, please bring a cell phone to participate. Thanks!

Speakers

Jack Mullan

Research Associate, Citizens' Committee for Children

SMS Workshop final pptx

Friday October 11, 2019 2:15pm - 3:10pm MDT
Four Square B

MEASURE, Children & Family

Company WORKSHOP

3:15pm MDT

Using Community Indicators in Logic Models: How to connect data with action

In this session I focus on the key role that community indicators can play within logic model construction and program evaluation. Connecting these two key planning resources is critical for grant writing and program planning but it can also be extremely valuable and expedient when seeking to measure outcomes and track progress.

Speakers

Frank Ridzi

Vice President Community Investment / Assoc Prof, Central New York Community Foundation and Le Moyne College

Friday October 11, 2019 3:15pm - 4:05pm MDT
Hopscotch

IMPACT

Company WORKSHOP

3:15pm MDT

Culturally Responsive Evaluation Practices

Measurement and evaluation are rooted in an institutional system that is based on a white racial lens. This workshop will discuss what Culturally Responsive Practice is, how we approach it and how to integrate it into our work. Participants will receive tools and methodologies that will help guide what evaluation from a racial equity lens looks like and how to include members of the community in the conversation in order to get an accurate depiction of impact from these communities.

Speakers

Dawn Helmrich

Director of Research and Evaluation, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County

Dawn Helmrich is the Director of Research and Evaluation at United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County. During her tenure she has helped develop the Community Outcomes Project into a nationally recognized model and works directly with the community to ensure that funded programs... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2019 3:15pm - 4:10pm MDT
Duck, Duck, Goose

COMMUNICATE, Equity

Company WORKSHOP

3:15pm MDT

Opportunity360: A Tool for Community Transformation

This panel will include an overview of Opportunity360 and discussion by panelists on how they are using the platform in their work with communities. One feature of the platform is the Opportunity360 Measurement Reports that bring together public and proprietary data from 37 sources and include over 150 indicators to tell the story of communities across the country. Panelists will include representatives from Enterprise Community Partners, the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade, and a community practitioner who will discuss how these tools have been used to support Opportunity Zones and overall community development. Bring your laptop for a hands-on experience!

Moderators

Jennie Rodgers

Enterprise Community Partners

Ms. Rodgers is Vice President, Denver Market Leader at Enterprise Community Partners. She leads Enterprise’s work with local partners to increase and deploy resources for affordable housing, advocate for local and state affordable housing policy, and provide technical assistance... Read More →

Speakers

Andy Masters

Strategic Partnerships Manager, Enterprise Community Partners

Jana Persky

Opportunity Zone Program Director, State of Colorado (OEDIT)

Ken Snyder

Friday October 11, 2019 3:15pm - 4:10pm MDT
Red Rover

CONNECT

Company PANEL

3:15pm MDT

A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Creating a Shared Measurement System to Address Community Food Insecurity

This session provides a case study example and an in-depth look at: a) what it takes to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to create a set of shared indicators at a community level with a diverse set of non-profit organizations; b) the actual domains and indicators that were co-created through an iterative process; and c) the strengths, challenges and limitation of utilizing this approach to evaluate a community-level initiative.

This session will be of particular interest to organizations and funders who are working on place-based impact initiatives, those who are exploring new approaches focused on systems changes, and how to design useful evaluations to understand impact at multiple scales.

Speakers

Alyssa Banks

Program Officer, Greater Twin Cities United Way

Alyssa Banks is a Program Officer on the Innovation team at Greater Twin Cities United Way where her portfolio is focused on strengthening local community food systems and increasing food security in the Twin cities region and in partnership with other United Ways nationally and internationally... Read More →

Rebecca Saito

Associate Director, Sr. Research Associate, Rainbow Research

I'd love to hear about your experiences with Place-based food system work, what does it mean to be an equitable evaluation firm, food justice work especially in CO

Friday October 11, 2019 3:15pm - 4:10pm MDT
Four Square B

MEASURE, Cross-cutting

Company WORKSHOP

4:15pm MDT

Closing Remarks

Friday October 11, 2019 4:15pm - 4:30pm MDT
Marco Polo Ballroom

PLENARY