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Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Fostering
well-informed decision making for change The Alliance
is a growing movement of neighborhoods, city agencies, community organizations,
businesses, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, residents and many
more working to promote the principle and practice of well-informed decision
making for neighborhood change toward strong neighborhoods, improved quality of
life, and a thriving city.
The Alliance's core functions brings together the resources
of strategic partners and places them in a neighborhood context. Several of these
groups contribute their time and effort to develop the Alliance core functions.
The idea is to work together toward our goals, and not reinvent the wheel.
Each serves on one or more of our Work Groups - the Coordinating Committee,
the Vital Signs Steering Committee, the Technical Assistance and Training
Work Group, Data Providers, and Access Points. In exchange for their contribution
of time and knowledge, each group relies on the Alliance staff to track the changing
conditions in neighborhoods and quality of life over time using the Vital Signs,
help explain and clarify the indicators and how to use them, as well as work with
their constituencies to understand the impact their work may have on those conditions. The
Work Groups and the organizations currently involved in them are listed below:
Alliance Coordinating Committee
Functions as a Board of Directors
Baltimore
Neighborhood Collaborative (BNC) Citizens
Planning and Housing Association City
of Baltimore (represented by the Baltimore City Department of Planning) Neighborhood
Design Center (NDC) Family
League of Baltimore City Association
of Baltimore Area Grantmakers (ABAG) (at large)
Vital Signs Steering Committee
The Alliance's
Vital Signs Steering Committee facilitated the development of
the Vital Signs, and continues to refine them each year. In addition, they advise
on activities to ensure continued use of the Vital Signs in Baltimore life,
such as the media partnerships, training, reports, and speaking engagements. Annie
E. Casey Foundation Baltimore
City Department of Planning Baltimore
City Heritage Area Baltimore
Neighborhood Collaborative Cherry Hill 2000
Citizens
Planning and Housing Association Baltimore
City Data Collaborative Greater Baltimore
Committee Goldseker
Foundation Johns
Hopkins University Political Science Department Mayor's
Office of Neighborhoods Parks
& People Foundation Rauch
Foundation University
of Maryland at College Park Urban Studies and Planning Department University
of Maryland School of Social Work [Back
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Technical Assistance
and Training Work Group
The Training and Technical
Assistance group consists of community building groups and technical assistance
providers who aided in the design of the Alliance's unique Trainng Curriculum
for using data and the Vital Signs. They also provide the avenue for the
Alliance staff to conduct trainings in their respective workshops, as well as
plan other training events. Baltimore
City Department of Planning Baltimore
Neighborhood Collaborative Cherry Hill 2000
Citizens
Planning and Housing Association Maryland
Center for Community Development (MCCD) Neighborhood
Design Center (NDC) University
of Maryland at College Park Urban Studies and Planning Department [Back
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Data Provider Partners
The
Data Provider partners initially began to work together to build the "One
Stop Shop" for data. They continue working with the Alliance staff to
update the data, analyze data for the Vital Signs, and develop and comply
with data quality standards. Each data provider partner houses, maintains,
and analyzes its own data, and provides specific data to the Alliance in an aggregated
form. They rely on the Alliance staff to work directly with neighborhood groups
and others to understand and use data and indicators effectively. Baltimore
City CitiStat Baltimore
City Department of Planning
Baltimore
City Department of Housing
Baltimore
City Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Enterprise Group Baltimore
City Health Department Baltimore
City Police Department Baltimore
Ecosystem Study (BES) Baltimore
City Public School System Baltimore
Metropolitan Council (BMC) Baltimore City Substance
Abuse Systems Baltimore
City Data Collaborative/Family League of Baltimore City
Maryland State Department of Planning-State
Data Center Maryland
State Department of Education Maryland
Department of the Environment Mayor's
Office of Information Technology Parks
& People Foundation Regional
Information Center University
of Baltimore-Jacob France Institute [Back
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Access Points
"Access
Points" are places where anyone can access the Vital Signs and resources
on the Alliance website. Staff of the organization designated as an "Access
Point" are trained to use the Vital Signs and the website interactive
mapping system. They can answer specific questions in order to be a helpful resource
for users. Enoch
Pratt Free Library and All Library Branches Resource
Center for Neighborhoods at the Citizens Planning and Housing Association
The
Village Learning Place One-Stop
Career Centers of the Mayor's Office of Employment and Development
Please note: Several other organizations and individuals
support the work of the Alliance and have given their co-sponsorship
or endorsement for Baltimore's
Neighborhood Vital Signs.
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