Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008	Job Posting: NeighborWorks America Analyst
From NNIP: Job Description TITLE: Analyst, Corporate Planning, Performance, and Strategy Division: Corporate Planning, Performance, and Strategy FLSA STATUS: Exempt REPORTS TO: CPPS Director (half time position) LOCATION: Washington DC GENERAL PURPOSE This job supports the CPPS division two...... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008	Job Posting: NeighborWorks America Senior Analyst
From NNIP: Job Description TITLE: Senior Planning, and Evaluation Analyst Division: Corporate Planning, Performance, and Strategy (CPPS) FLSA STATUS: Exempt REPORTS TO: Director CPPS LOCATION: Washington DC GENERAL PURPOSE Support Corporate strategies and performance by supporting the...... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Jul 28, 2008	Call for Papers: Neighborhood Renewal
Invitation received via NAPC (National Association of Planning Councils) -- I think if you ask nicely they'll let you subscribe. I thought both the conference and the call for papers might be of interest to some of the readers here: Neighbourhood – The International Journal of...... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Jul 23, 2008	Don't We Drive More Than We Walk?
When I posted the follow-up article on Walk Score , an alert reader pointed me to Drive Score . This site allows you to enter an address and get a score based on the number of businesses within drivable range. (Since I just proved that South Dakota is within "drivable range" of Florida , the...... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Jul 22, 2008	Two Reports Released by NNIP
Here's a head's-up from Tom Kingsley on the NNIP Listserve : Two reports have recently been released describing innovative local uses of parcel level data in community development. Most of the examples were done by partners in the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP). The first...... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  May 9, 2008	Local Data Sources, Part One
Last night I was talking to someone who expressed the same frustration many of us have felt in finding good data for smaller communities -- in his case, a small-population mostly-rural county. We pointed out an excellent resource a couple of months ago that just came out in January to help with...... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Feb 2, 2008	Catalog of Administrative Data Sources for Neighborhood Indicators
I am very excited about the new publication from Claudia J. Coulton titled Catalog of Administrative Data Sources for Neighborhood Indicators (PDF). This is not only a tremendous resource for neighborhood-level statistical data sources, but also a sign of the growing maturity of the...... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Nov 12, 2007	MacArthur Foundation's New Directions in Community Change
The MacArthur Foundation just published a newsletter called New Directions in Community Change . It begins with a President's Message that highlights the importance of looking at the overall quality of life in urban renewal, in this case in Chicago, and the need to track progress through a...... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Sep 10, 2007	Zip Code Data Source
Here's an interesting data source for you (based on the 2000 U.S. Census, so the data is getting a little old.) It's called Zipskinny , and it gives you a set of social and economic indicators for a zip code, and allows you to compare up to ten zip codes at the same time. Try it out!... [view]

Posted By:  BenWarner Posted On:  Aug 9, 2007	Using Walk Score as a Neighborhood Indicator
Thanks to an article from the folks at the Metro Jacksonville blog , I've got a new toy to play with when looking at neighborhood indicators. The website they pointed out is called Walk Score , and it generates a number (1-100) of how walkable a neighborhood is based on the amenities around it,...... [view]