The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership An Update Semi-Annual Meeting Washington, DC May 12-14, 2010

NNIP Leadership MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 2010 Executive Committee u Matt Barry, Denver u Phyllis Betts, Memphis u Tim Bray, Dallas u Claudia Coulton, Cleveland u Michael Rich, Atlanta u Steve Spiker, Oakland Recently Stepped Down u John Stern, Nashville u Mike Barndt, Milwaukee u Garth Taylor, Chicago u Charlie Bruner, Des Moines u Sandy Ciske, Seattle Active Work Groups & Chairs u NNIP Shared Indicators: Charlotte Kahn, Garth Taylor u Comprehensive Redesign NNIP Web Site: Kathy Pettit, Steve Spiker, Matt Barry New Agendas to be Developed u Neigh. Housing/Foreclosures u Neigh. Economic Development u Early Childhood u 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 u Build and operate information systems with integrated and recurrently updated indicators on neighborhood conditions u Facilitate and promote the direct practical use of indicators by community and city leaders in community building and local policy making u Emphasize the use of information to build the capacities of institutions and residents in distressed neighborhoods

NNIP WORK PLAN u Advance the state of practice 1.Informing local policy initiatives (substantive cross-site initiatives) 2.Developing tools and guides (NNIP Elements of Practice) u Build/strengthen local capacity 3.Developing capacity in new communities 4.Services to an expanding network (Community of Practice and Partnership) u Influence national context/partnering 5.Leadership in building the field

INFORMING LOCAL POLICY Cross-site initiatives u 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 u 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 u 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 u 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 u Expanding direct peer-to-peer interaction –Web-chats, list-serve –Commitment to NNIP newsletter this year u Comprehensive redesign - NNIP web-site –New structure, look and feel –RFP to developers in June u Excerpts from national datasets to partners

BUILD/STRENGTHEN LOCAL CAPACITY Services to Network u Exploring options for local website development –Opportunity to view and compare options –Open Indicators Consortium review this meeting u Preparing to take advantage of new data sources –Addressing the challenges of tract-level data from the American Community Survey, this meeting

u 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 u 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 National initiatives/opportunities

u 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 u 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

u 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) u 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 LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELD