WHAT'S NEW
This section relates special events and selected accomplishments of the NNIP partnership and local partners. We can only cover a small portion of the effects of NNIP partners, so we encourage you to visit their web sites for more detailed information.
MAY 2009 - NNIP would like to announce that the Regional Housing and Community Development Alliance (RHCDA), in partnership with RegionWise at Saint Louis University, Public Policy Research Center at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, Institute for Urban Research at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, and Washington University in St. Louis, has joined NNIP to represent the St. Louis region. RHCDA is a nonprofit intermediary organization with a mission to build strong and healthy neighborhoods in the St. Louis area. They have worked for over ten years in distressed communities throughout the St. Louis metropolitan region as a technical assistance provider building the capacity of local community-based development organizations; as a predevelopment lender, and as a developer and development consultant. In 2005, RHCDA began tracking Neighborhood Indicator data in an attempt to identify correlations between targeted intervention strategies in certain neighborhoods and the progress those neighborhoods were making. Shortly thereafter, they began incorporating neighborhood-level data into all of their work, most importantly into their technical assistance programs. RHCDA now includes "Outcome Measures" training in most of their technical assistance work, which introduces community leaders to neighborhood-level data and helps them utilize the data to achieve their strategic goals. Some of RHCDA’s current projects include working with local governments on their Neighborhood Stabilization Program plans, serving as the community liaison for the National Community Stabilization Trust and a project to map community gardens and increase food security in the St. Louis region. RHCDA, along with the area’s major universities, participates in the local collaborative known as the Metro Data Alliance, to share data and resources. This data sharing arrangement, while currently informal, allows the participating organizations to reduce duplication of effort and to be respectful of data providers’ time by reducing the number of individual data requests to any given entity.
For more information see www.rhcda.com and the St. Louis Partner Profile.
NNIP Launches New Foreclosure Resources Webpage
MARCH 2009 - The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) has created a new webpage with resources on the foreclosure crisis generated by the partnership and the individual NNIP partners:
NNIP local partners have been at the forefront of analyzing foreclosures effects on neighborhoods and supporting data-driven responses to the crisis. This webpage makes their web sites, presentations, and publications conveniently accessible in one location for the first time. In addition, there are tools and protocols that are being used by partners to study foreclosures, which may be useful for anyone pursuing similar research. The webpage also catalogues cross-site activities, including presentations at the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) meeting in March 2009. Presentations from UAA available at the foreclosure page are:
Visit NNIP’s new foreclosure resources webpage, and check back in the future for updated publications and resources as the foreclosure crisis continues to unfold.
For additional information, e-mail NNIP at nnip@ui.urban.org. |
