How many kids 0-8 were served in nonprofit service area?

Who Is The Researcher For This Question?

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Sources

Public

Source: We All Count

Project Restrictions

Nonprofit doesn't always know the ages of children in the families they serve so numbers may be higher than what is collected.

Project Rewards

Funders can see the number of kids they are supporting. Nonprofit can show funders where they can scale with more funding to meet the needs of the community. Community members will benefit if resources are allocated according to their needs. The cycle of poverty can be intercepted for 0-8 children.

Definitions Of Success

Help nonprofit show how much they are helping real needs and where more funding is necessary to meet the rest of the community needs.

Project Goals

Show the gap between kids 0-8 in poverty served by nonprofit versus total in the community. Clearly present the data to the nonprofit so they can use the information to present to funders and other stakeholders.

Implicit Bias

Not discussed.

Centered Perspectives

The nonprofit. The funders who needed to see the information.

Date Report Released

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Date Requested

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Date Report Refreshed

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Data Sources

STCH Food Bank Manager, ACS community data

Data Fields

Tract; Kids Served; Kids 0-8 below poverty

Research Sources

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Research Questions

What is the number of kids 0-8 in poverty in the STCH service area? What are the gaps between the kids served by STCH and those 0-8 in poverty in the STCH service area? Which tracts have the highest need?

Answer Process

Compared the STCH service numbers to the most recent ACS data

Onus To Change

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Descriptive

Weight

None

Generalization

Putting all kids 0-8 living in poverty into one category

Predicitive

Effect Of Disaggregation

Tract level changes the data? Breaking out the data based on smaller age ranges, sex, race, ethnicity would add additional insights.

Specificity

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Accuracy

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Sensitivity

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Casual

Other Variables

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Perspective

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Content

Topics

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Complexity

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Pov

kids in poverty

Relevance

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Clarity

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Cultural Translation

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Depth

Raw data is available for the ACS data, and aggregate numbers by tract for the nonprofit data.

Narrative

Basic story about gaps. Not coming to any conclusions or making assumptions about causation.

Access

Private Vs Public

Private

Isolated Vs Network

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Live Vs Standalone

The STCH data can be updated on a monthly basis as their monthly report is updated. The ACS data can only be updated once a year when that information is updated.

Branding

There was no branding.

Interactive Vs Demonstrative

Interactive dashboard

Static Vs Dynamic

Dynamic

Digital Vs Print

Digital

Medium

Feedback

The nonprofit gave feedback on the dashboard via emails and verbally.

Ableism

Not currently, but possible to make additions so there are other options.

Copyright

No copyright issues

Depth

Raw data is available for the ACS data, and aggregate numbers by tract for the nonprofit data.

Permanence

As long as the client maintains access to the dashboard

Training

A highschool reading level but no specific training

Ownership

The dashboard is stored on a 9b license, but the data itself is owned by nonprofit or ACS.

Paywall

Yes

Digital Vs Print

Digital