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2017-12-21
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity;
Renewing Our Call to Action responds to the October 2015 Youth Perspective Report completed by the City of Columbus to support their expanding work in the My Brother's Keeper Initiative. As a part of that report's recommendations, the City of Columbus seeks to work with the community to collaboratively set short and long-term goals with measurable targets, or common benchmarks of success.In an effort to bring the community together around youth initiatives, the City of Columbus commissioned the Kirwan Institute to develop a report to learn more about the local landscape of youth vulnerability, and to get a better understanding of existing assets at the neighborhood level. This report provides a portrait of youth vulnerability and resources across Columbus, and outlines how we can work together to raise the bar and close achievement gaps in order to ensure that all youth in Columbus have the opportunity to succeed. Renewing Our Call to Action is the first step of a recommitment to building a community that provides opportunity for all.
2003-10-27
Columbus Foundation;
Student mobility is the phenomenon of students in grades K-12 changing schools, both during the school year and in the summer, for reasons other than customary promotion from elementary school to middle school or middle school to high school. Student mobility is an important research topic because of: 1) the current education policy environment, with its focus on school choice; 2) the impact of student mobility on school building and school district performance; 3) the relationship of mobility and at-risk children and their families; and 4) the impact of highly mobile populations on the quality of neighborhoods and communities.In May 2002, The Columbus Foundation commissioned research by Community Research Partners (CRP) to study the causes, patterns and impact of high student mobility in the Linden-McKinley feeder pattern of the Columbus Public Schools (CPS) and to recommend both school and community strategies to address mobility. CRP is a non-profit research and evaluation organization, and a partnership of the City of Columbus, United Way of Central Ohio and the John Glenn Institute at The Ohio State University.
2002-06-10
Community Research Partners;
The purpose of the survey is to understand the extent to which a group of users of childcare services understand key Start Smart messages about child development. A major part of the Start Smart initiative focuses on informing parents and caregivers about appropriate childcare practices and providing accurate child development information. Start Smart planners are interested in evaluating the success of various efforts to disseminate such information. The survey provides a snapshot of the perceptions of a relatively large group of childcare users in two of the targeted areas for the Start Smart initiative. This snapshot represents a "before" intervention picture. While some Start Smart materials are available to residents of Franklin County (web site, pamphlets, etc.), to date, no targeted dissemination of information in the test neighborhoods has taken place.
2008-05-01
Community Research Partners;
In December 2007, the Educational Service Center of Franklin County contracted with Community Research Partners (CRP), a non-profit research agency based in Columbus, Ohio, to conduct an evaluation of the Keep Engaging Youth (KEY) Truancy Reduction Pilot Project. Statistics demonstrating that about 2,500 students are absent without excuse on any given day in the Columbus City Schools (CCS) district, coupled with research indicating that truant behavior is often a precursor to several negative outcomes for youth, such as school dropout, crime, and poverty, led to the implementation of Project KEY. It is an evidence based program that is designed to provide interventions to address truant behavior early on in the lives of young students in Columbus, Ohio. This report focuses on the interim findings of the evaluation of Project KEY
2009-01-01
Community Research Partners;
This research covers the demographic, housing market, and other characteristics of downtown Columbus.
2005-08-01
Community Research Partners;
CRP conducted research for the report Creating a Tipping Point: Housing Development as a Tool for Neighborhood Revitalization. Columbus Housing Partnership and the City of Columbus Housing Division are interested in supplementing this research by conducting a sophisticated market analysis. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the demographic, housing, and land use characteristics of older Columbus to develop a neighborhood typology that guides housing and neighborhood revitalization strategies. CRP has outlined a process to develop a Columbus neighborhood typology: Readily available data - Analyze readily available demographic and property data to describe the characteristics of Columbus neighborhoods, and make a recommendation for Phase II methodology. Statistical modeling - Use the sophisticated market analysis methodology or other analysis model to develop a typology of Columbus neighborhoods. Community input and feedback - Present the Phase I and II analysis to neighborhood residents and other community stakeholders for feedback and verification and finalize typology based on input.
2007-01-31
Community Research Partners;
In 2003, Columbus was one of eleven cities nationwide to receive funding through the Collaborative Initiative to End Chronic Homelessness of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. This grant was used to plan and implement RLPTI. RLPTI is a multi-system, multi-agency collaboration, led by the Community Shelter Board, intended to seamlessly coordinate permanent housing, services, and access to resources for chronically homeless persons with severe mental disabilities using a PACT (Program of Assertive Community Treatment) model. CRP facilitated the work of RLPTI partner agencies to identify program benchmarks and outcome indicators to guide the evaluation plan. These were organized by three priorities of service delivery which correspond to the three national CHI program priorities: Priority 1: Client Level. Provide housing and health and supportive services to persons who experience chronic homelessness and suffer from severe mental disabilities. Priority 2: Service Provider Level. Establish an integrated multidisciplinary team of professionals to provide service and housing. Priority 3: System Level. Integrate a service delivery system in ways that can be replicated and sustained. In its role as local evaluator, CRP collected and analyzed qualitative and quantitative data; prepared annual evaluation reports; prepared monthly "dashboard" reports; and participated in the RLPTI Management Team.
2010-06-22
Community Research Partners;
This Data Byte explores the patterns of crime in Columbus over the course of one year (2009), analyzing patterns for major categories of crime by date, day of the week, and month and for holidays.
2012-03-19
Columbus Council on World Affairs;
The first-of-its-kind report includes 89 data tables with indicators of Citizenship & Diversity, Language & Education, Residency & Service Abroad, and Commerce & Employment in the 13-county "Greater Columbus" area, as well as 50 country profiles.
2010-12-15
Columbus Foundation;
Contains message from the board chair and the president, 2009 highlights, philanthropy award recipients, donor and grantee profiles, grants list, funds list, financial summary, and lists of board members and staff.
2009-06-12
Community Research Partners;
Creative Columbus: a Picture of the Creative Economy of Central Ohio was released on June 12, 2009. The report, developed for the Columbus College of Art & Design by Community Research Partners, takes an in-depth look at central Ohio's creative services sector to determine its size, characteristics, magnitude, and direct economic value. Supporting funders of the project include the Columbus Foundation, Compete Columbus, the Franklin County Commissioners, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and The Ohio State University.Creative Columbus is a unique project that studies both creative industries and occupations, drills down to the neighborhood level, and supplements these findings with primary data from a survey of a range of stakeholders in the creative economy. CRP used online networking sites and local blogs to generate awareness about the project. Offline, we had conversations with the creative community, whose support for this project providers impetus for future action.
2020-08-01
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy;
In light of the national uprising sparked by the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor (and building on other recent tragic movement moments going back to the 2014 murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri), NCRP is analyzing grantmaking by community foundations across the country to find out exactly how much they are – or are not – investing in Black communities.We started by looking at the latest available grantmaking data (2016-2018) of 25 community foundations (CFs) – from Los Angeles to New Orleans to New York City to St. Paul. These foundations represent a cross section of some of the country's largest community foundations as well as foundations in communities where NCRP has Black-led nonprofit allies.
