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The Urban Institute,
Washington , D.C.
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established
in Washington , D.C. , in 1968. The Institute's goals are to sharpen
thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve
government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens'
awareness about important public choices
http://www.urban.org
A slide show of leading indicators of gentrification in leading neighborhoods
in Washington, D.C.
http://www.urban.org/news/events/DCGentrification/sld001.htm
Common Ground Community
Mapping Project Vancouver , BC
Common Ground is a community-based mapping and planning project based
in Victoria , BC , which provides mapping and learning resources and
opportunities for schools, neighborhoods and communities wishing
to undertake sustainable community development and planning projects.
www3.telus.net/cground/index.html
Map in Argentina of soccer fields, community centers, and medicinal
plant gardens:
www3.telus.net/cground/map-nuestra.jpg
Map of fruit trees in Victoria Canada that would usually go un-harvested:
www3.telus.net/cground/pics/fruit
tree map.jpg
Community Youth Mapping
(CYM)
Community Youth Mapping is young people and adults canvassing their
neighborhoods in search of places to go and things to do. Simply put,
CYM is data collection for young people, children and families, by youth.
Community Youth Mapping, a youth development strategy instituted by
the AED Center for Youth Development and Policy Research, is ideally
coordinated by a local public/private/nonprofit partnership and led
by a local community-based institution.
www.communityyouthmapping.org/
Green Map System
www.greenmap.com/home/home.html
Mapping Community Assets
Workbook
www.nwrel.org/ruraled/publications/com_mapping.pdf
http://www.theinnovationcenter.org/productDesc.asp?ID=1 (Asset mapping toolkit created by the innovation center.)
www.web.apc.org/~nben/envnews/toolkit/mapping.htm (Another mapping "toolkit" that is online, no purchase necessary, with links)
ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/ (A tool box for community development, with a whole section on asset mapping.)
www.nwrel.org/ruraled/mapping.pdf (Workbook for use by CBO's to do asset mapping)
www.cbr-aimhigh.com (For-profit model of asset mapping, sort of like AED's approach, only not youth-driven)
www.assetmap.com (Another for-profit site)
The Piton Foundation
Denver, CO
The Piton Foundation is a private operating foundation that
provides opportunities to children and families in Denver move from
poverty and dependence to self-reliance. A variety of neighborhood
resource maps can be found at the Foundation's web site.
www.piton.org/
Boston Foundation
Boston , MA
www.tbf.org/
Neighborhood Knowledge
Los Angeles (NKLA)
NKLA is a web site dedicated to helping prevent housing
and neighborhood conditions from deteriorating. NKLA provides tools
for accessing property and neighborhood data and works with neighborhood
residents, community organizations, and policymakers to mobilize support
for community improvement in the Los Angeles area. Several informative
maps can be found within the NKLA database at their web site:
nkla.sppsr.ucla.edu/
The Northeast Los Angeles
Network (nelanet)
Nelanet is a project in community web site development by Occidental
College . They are part of a growing movement of community or civic
computer networks on the Internet that serve to promote local economic
development, community memory and culture, electronic literacy, and
connectivity among youth, citizens and community organizations throughout
our nation. They hope to help bridge the "digital divide" in the
educational system and citizenry between those who are beneficiaries
of the informational economy and those who are not. Their web
site contains comprehensive data maps that show various resource centers
for several neighborhoods in northeast Los Angeles.
www.nelanet.org/
DANEnet
DANEnet is a non-profit, community-owned Internet site which
focuses on the information needs of the Dane County (Wisconsin) community.
There mission is to help people share information and connect through
the use of the Internet. DANEnet provides access to all kinds of community
information, and facilitates the online discussion of community issues.
Created largely by volunteers, we strive to serve the whole community
including the traditionally underserved by providing free, dial-up access
to information and community access sites at youth and neighborhood
centers.
www.danenet.org/
Neighborhood asset map of the Madison, Wisconsin area:
danenet.danenet.org/tlna/web-data/steering/images/asset.html
Philadelphia Neighborhood
Information System
apollo.gsfa.upenn.edu/Projects/NIS.asp
Map Milwaukee
www.gis.ci.mil.wi.us/isa/Map_Milwaukee/
Coalition for Low Income
Community Development (CLICD)
The Coalition for Low Income Community Development (CLICD) is a coalition
of grassroots and national groups organized to ensure that low income
people benefit from community planning and development programs. CLICD's
mission is to improve low-income groups' access to funds for community
revitalization and to implement model community planning processes.
Our special expertise is community-based planning and community mapping
using geographic information system (GIS) software.
www.clicd.org/
Map showing area median income and amount of check cashing facilities:
www.clicd.org/map/image13_copy.gif
Map of Maryland showing gap between minimum wage and rental housing
costs:
www.clicd.org/map/image15_copy.gif
Map showing Section 8 housing in Boston:
www.clicd.org/map/image14_copy.gif
Community Mapping Assistance
Project (CMAP)
The Community Mapping Assistance Project provides customized, affordable
computer mapping services to non-profit organizations. CMAP is
a project of the New York Public Interest Research Group Fund, Inc.
(NYPIRG).
www.cmap.nypirg.org/
CMAP provides various sample maps
http://www.cmap.nypirg.org/webmapping/default.asp
Metropolitan Area Research
Corporation (MARC)
www.metroresearch.org/
Compumentor
www.compumentor.org/
GreenInfo
The mission of GreenInfo Network is to bring the power of computer based
mapping to non-profits, public agencies and other public interest organizations
We enable these groups to more effectively show the relationships between
issues, people and places.
www.greeninfo.org/
Map of poverty percentages in San Francisco:
www.greeninfo.org/HTML/gallery/map032000.htm
Map of environmental organization in California:
www.greeninfo.org/HTML/gallery/map052000.htm
Map of Transit in San Mateo County:
www.greeninfo.org/HTML/gallery/map121999.htm
Center for Youth Development
and Policy Research
The Center for Youth Development and Policy Research is an
organization dedicated to contributing to better the futures of all
youth in the United States. It focuses on shifting the public
debate and commitment from youth problems to youth development.
www.aed.org/us/cyd/ydmobilization.html
An example of community youth mapping:
www.aed.org/us/cyd/cym/map.html
The Urban and Regional
Information Systems Association (URISA)
URISA is a non-profit association of professionals using Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) and other information technologies to solve
challenges in all state and local government agencies and departments.
URISA is considered to be the premier organization for the use and integration
of spatial information technology to improve the quality of life in
urban and regional environments.
www.urisa.org/
URISA has various online GIS maps that can be accessed at:
www.urisa.org/Journal/accepted/ghose/neighborhood
_strategic_planning_through_gis_based_indicators.htm
National Neighborhood
Indicators Partnership (NNIP)
NNIP is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners
to further the development and use of neighborhood-level information
systems in local policymaking and community building.
www.urban.org/nnip/index.htm
A variety of demographic maps made by NNIP can be found at this link:
www.urban.org/nnip/wtwmaps.html
Tax Assessor Database
Clicking on links to your state, county, city, and then your
address, to find property value information.
pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~cap440/assess.html
Building permits by
city
tier2.census.gov/bldgprmt/index.html
FFIEC Census Reports
Information from 1997-2001 about census demographic information,
either by county, or metropolitan city. Information is separated
by census tract number, and income level.
www.ffiec.gov/webcensus/ffieccensus.htm
Yahoo Real Estate
Type in your address, city, state or zip code, and get information
about the houses that were sold in your area, and how much they sold
for.
yahoo.iplace.com/sales_search.asp
Realtor.Com
Find the houses that are for sale in your area, and how much
they are asking for.
www.realtor.com/FindHome/default.asp?source=a2aj7t1t266
Census Bureau
Tables by county, on Building permits and lots more.
Click city- scroll down to Demographic Profile, then New releases and
click on either excel or PDF for a table to appear.
tier2.census.gov/usac/index.html-ssi
www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/sumfile1.html
Fed Stats
Fed Stats homepage, with links to different sources of statistical
data.
www.fedstats.gov/
Children Now
California County Data Book 1999 - Information on all California
counties on demographics, family economics, health, education and safety.
www.childrennow.org/california/RC99/databook-99.pdf
US census and HUD estimated
MSA median family income for the 2001 HMDA reports, compared to incomes
in 1997
www.ffiec.gov/hmda/pdf/msa01inc.pdf
Neighborhood Place
By typing in your area code, graphs show, average household
size, median age, median household income, total household expenditures,
crime risk, and carbon monoxide level, county, state, and the United
States. This site also has community reports.
www.neighborhoodplace.com/apps/WebObjects/NPApp
Urban Institute
Reports on at-risk teens, crime in America, Medicare, Social
Security, Washington, D.C., Welfare Reform, the Working Poor
www.urban.org/index.htm
United States Environmental
Protection Agency
Environmental facts- toxic waste, etc.
www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html
URISA
Links to many sources for data.
http://www.urisa.org/services.htm#Data%20Collection
Non-Federal Statistical Web Sites:
American Statistical
Association
www.amstat.org/
Committee on National
Statistics , National Academy of Sciences
www7.nationalacademies.org/cnstat/index.html
Council of Professional
Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS)
www.copafs.org/
Eurostat
Source for European Union statistics.
www.europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/Public/datashop/
print-catalogue/EN?catalogue=Eurostat
International Monetary
Fund
Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board: key information about economic
and financial data disseminated by member countries.
dsbb.imf.org/
International and National
Statistical Agencies
Active in the Economic Commission for Europe.
www.unece.org/stats/links.htm
Joint Program in Survey
Methodology (JPSM)
www.jpsm.umd.edu/index.htm
Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD)
www.oecd.fr/statistics/
Statistical Resources
on the Web , University of Michigan
www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stats.html
United Nations CyberSchoolBus
www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/menureso.htm
The Center for Information
Law and Policy: The Federal Web Locator
www.infoctr.edu/fwl/
Federal Gateway
U.S. Government information clearinghouse
www.fedgate.org
GovSpot Information
Services
"The Government Information portal of the Web."
www.govspot.com/
Government Information
Sharing Project Information Services : Oregon State University
govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/
Federal Information Web Sites:
Federal Information
Center
www.info.gov/
Financenet
Financial Management in Government
www.financenet.gov/
FirstGov
One-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources.
www.firstgov.gov/
Historical Data from
the National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/electronic_records_archives/index.html
U.S. Business Advisor
www.business.gov/
FedWorld Information
Network
www.fedworld.gov/
National Technology
Transfer Center
www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html
Government Information
Locator Service (GILS)
www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/index.html
Child and Family Statistics
Federal Interagency Forum
www.childstats.gov/
Government Statistical
Agencies beyond the U.S.
www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html
Interagency Forum on
Aging-Related Statistics
www.agingstats.gov/
GISPortal
Portal for general GIS information.
www.gisportal.com
MapInfo Corporation
www.mapinfo.com
Environmental Systems
Research Institute, Inc .
www.esri.com .
Caliper Corporation
www.caliper.com .
U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cio/c2020/
University of Southern
California
www.usc.edu/dept/geography/learngis/
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Penn State University
World Campus
www.worldcampus.psu.edu/pub/programs/gis/index.shtml
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