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8. Three NNIP partners (the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, the
Mid-America Regional Council, and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in Boston)
were Sustainable Communities Initiative grantees. Several other partners (Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Denver, Colorado; and St. Louis, Missouri) provided analytic support for
their local grantee. For more examples of the role of neighborhood data in the initiative,
see the NNIP website at http://neighborhoodindicators.org/issue-area/209.
9. Campaign for Grade Level Reading website. Accessed January 20, 2014. http://
gradelevelreading.net/.
10. See Cowan (2007) and Kingsley and Pettit (2011) for other case studies on data
use by the organizations in NNIP.
11. See Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, “Obesity and Overweight Prevalence
among Children Aged 10 to 17, by State, 2003 vs. 2007,” at http://www.window.state.
tx.us/specialrpt/obesitycost/exhibits/ex4.php. Accessed January 12, 2014.
12. As of 2009, 13 states had legislation requiring school-based BMI measurement
programs, with implementation at various stages (Nihiser et al. 2009).
13. For a series of essays exploring the early data from the Texas Fitness Testing
from a variety of perspectives, see the September 2010 Special Supplement to Research
Quarterly for Exercise and Sport on the Findings of Texas-Wide School-Based Fitness
Testing.
14. COH completed a similar study for Manor Independent School District northwest
of Austin in May 2013.
15. This case study was written with the assistance of Leah Hendey of the Urban
Institute and Timothy Bray at the Institute of Urban Policy Research at the University of
Texas at Dallas.
16. For additional information, see http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/northsouth-dallas-project/.
17. For additional information, see http://www.southerndallas.org/.
18. For additional information about Grow South, see http://www.dallascityhall.
com/government/mayor/growSouth.html.
19. For additional information, see “Dallas Civic and Philanthropic Leaders
Announce Groundbreaking Epic Initiative.” Press release, May 14, 2013. http://www.dallas
areahabitat.org/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=33636&folderId=48594&name=
DLFE-2215.pdf.
20. For additional information about the history of Camden Coalition of Health
Care Providers, see http://www.camdenhealth.org/about/about-the-coalition/history/.
21. For additional information about the Camden diabetes collaborative, see
http://www.camdenhealth.org/programs/citywide-diabetes-collaborative/.
22. Derek Ziegler, “Overview of Camden Emergency Department and Hospitalization
Data.” National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership webinar, August 21, 2008.
23. For additional information about the Camden Health Information Exchange,
see http://www.camdenhealth.org/programs/health-information-exchange.
24. Truchil, Aaron. Telephone interview with Kathryn Pettit. January 23, 2014.
25. For additional information about the Hot Spotting Toolkit, see https://www.
aamc.org/initiatives/hotspotter/toolkit/.