Cutting Edge Tools Strengthen Neighborhoods and Connect Communities

Please join the National Neighborhood Coalition for a discussion of recent developments in Neighborhood Information Systems, including presentations on two particularly innovative systems.

A growing number of Neighborhood Information Systems are supporting the development of new approaches, practices and policies to address various neighborhood issues, including housing, transportation, social service delivery and business development. These cutting edge tools are facilitating not only the development of local solutions, but providing vehicles for disseminating and replicating innovative, successful local solutions across the nation. Good, reliable data is vital to sound policymaking, community development and investment efforts. Neighborhood Information Systems are increasingly putting timely, up-to-date data into the hands of practitioners, policymakers and researchers for use in a wide spectrum of activities, from market analyses and identification of community assets to planning interventions, monitoring progress and measuring the impact of community development efforts.

WHO
Ayse Can Talen, Senior Director, Fannie Mae Foundation and forum moderator;
Tom Kingsley, Director, National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, Urban Institute;
George McCarthy, Program Officer, The Ford Foundation;
Patrick McGuigan, Executive Director, Providence Plan, Providence, RI - Through its Information for Change agenda, the Providence Plan is working to improve the scope, quality, accessibility and usability of information available to the Providence community; and
Neal Richman, Associate Director of Advanced Policy Institute, UCLA - Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA) is an Internet-based Neighborhood Information System dedicated to helping prevent housing and neighborhood conditions from deteriorating in Los Angeles.

WHERE
The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW , Washington, DC (Metro: Dupont Circle or Farragut North)

WHEN
Friday, July 19, 2002 from 12:30 PM -- 2:00 PM

The forum on Neighborhood Information Systems is sponsored by the National Neighborhood Coalition, whose goal is to build and maintain healthy neighborhoods across the country, especially those that lower-income residents call home. NNC was founded in 1979 and today has more than 115 members forming a network of national and local community development leaders who are forging cutting-edge policies and programs to promote healthy neighborhoods. For more information please visit us at www.neighborhoodcoalition.org