2000115-Strengthening-Communities-with-Neighborhood-Data

426 Index
Community Development Block Grant
program, 90, 178n.2, 406
community development corporations
(CDCs), 18, 150
in Cleveland, 206, 207, 208, 210, 211,
212, 215, 216, 217
community neighborhood well-being
and, 17
Community Development Financial
Institutions (CDFI), 178n.2
community engagement, 220, 222
community gardens, 232
Community Geographic Information
Systems (Twin Cities), 63, 65, 68
community groups, record keeping by, 17
community health clinics, 17
community improvement, evolution of
concepts and practice for, 149–152
community-improvement nonprofits, 18
community indicators, 243
defined, 7
localized, 7–8
research design/analysis and agenda
of, 284
Community Indicators Consortium, 224
community indicators field applications,
137–146
education and engagement, 138,
144–145
neighborhood research, 138, 145–146
overview of, 137–139
performance management and
evaluation, 138, 141–144
policy analysis and program design,
138, 139–141
situation analysis, 137, 139
community indicators projects, 222–224
organizing, 222
selection of, with neighborhood-level
data, 223
community information
enhancing role of, 35
local institutions and, 14–21
community information field, 389
advances in availability of data and
technology, 391–392
advances in institutions, 390–391
changes in, 4
effective local data environment, creating,
396–400
methodological development, 312
national support system, 400–407
practice and research advances,
393–394
status and challenges, 394–396
community initiatives, early efforts to
assess conditions, trends, and assets
in, 153–156
Community Legal Resources (Detroit), 92
community mapping exercises, 289
community organizing, 1
Community Planning and Action
Program, 3, 9n.2
Community Planning and Economic
Development Department
(Minneapolis), 66
community referral calls, NNIP partner
data holdings, 2013, 89
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA),
178n.2
community-researcher partnerships, 188
community revitalization efforts
need for information, 118–119
opportunities for fundamental change,
133–134
community satisfaction surveys, 47–48
Community Solutions Action Plan, 227
community structure or process, 286
Community Summit on Childhood
Obesity, 229
community-university partnerships,
193–197
Comparative Performance Measurement
Consortium, 51
Compass products (Census Bureau), 83
complexity, barriers to information and,
120
complex systems framework, 383
comprehensive community initiatives
(CCIs), 185, 186, 190, 191
Comprehensive Community Revitalization
Program (South Bronx), 178n.3