The Common Good Data Podcast
The podcast for nonprofit and public sector leaders looking to use data and evaluation strategies to build effective and sustainable programs in the areas of prevention, mental health, human services, and education.
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Telling the story of the impact of your organization is critical to gaining support—from volunteers to donors to multi-year grants. But using data to show your impact can be challenging.
Learn how the best organizations build a culture of data that impresses funders, wins competitive grants, and changes the lives of individuals and communities.
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Measuring the Strength of Relationships and Communities with the Social Capital Atlas
How do you measure the strength of the connections in a community—the trust, relationships, and bonds that hold people together. Social capital plays a powerful role in impacting everything from economic mobility to civic participation. But how do we actually quantify these unseen networks?
The Social Capital Atlas can answer that question, mapping out data across U.S. counties and zip codes to show where social capital is strong and where it is lacking.
Using sources like Facebook connections, census data, and voting records, the Atlas paints a picture of how connected communities really are.
Using Collective Impact for Economic Mobility with Khalil Salim
Collective impact—a framework where organizations across sectors come together with a shared vision—can play a crucial role in improving economic mobility, or the ability for individuals and families to move up the economic ladder. This is especially important in cities like Charlotte, where decades of structural barriers have limited upward mobility for many residents.
Economic mobility impacts whether people can escape poverty and build better futures for themselves, but it requires more than just isolated efforts. Collective impact brings together nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies to work toward common goals, using data to measure progress and drive decisions.
Today’s guest, Khalil Salim, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation at United Way of Greater Charlotte, shares his expertise on how these collaborative approaches are being used to address Charlotte’s challenges, and his thoughts on Raj Chetty’s new research.
Trust-building, Direct Support, and Systemic Advocacy with Jamaal Kinard and Adrian Sundiata
The 28208 zip code in Charlotte, NC, including the Lakeview neighborhood, is one of the city’s areas with significant economic challenges. Residents born in this neighborhood have less than a 5% chance of transitioning out of poverty into the middle class.
Originally established as a mill village for white workers in the late 1930s, Lakeview became predominantly Black in the late 1960s due to urban renewal and white flight. Today, the community faces ongoing challenges, including issues of trust, gentrification, and a lack of meaningful engagement.
Jamaal Kinard and Adrian Sundiata from the Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance (LNA) join us to discuss their efforts to improve the quality of life in the Lakeview neighborhood.