Community Training – Neighborhood Data for Social Change

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An essential resource for any nonprofit, economic development professional, or community advocate's toolkit.

This is a brilliant tool for the county and the communities contained within needing a voice to champion the funding they so desperately need!

It is great that this data is being collected, stored, and shared. The interface is also user friendly and an open source to the community. People from all sorts of different backgrounds can utilize this tool and can make data driven decisions.

I make presentations to numerous community groups, block clubs, councils and other agencies. I am looking to create Neighborhood Profiles for the communities we serve to educate and inform the residents about the state of their community through data snapshots. NDSC is the perfect tool.

Thank you for the wonderful training. Our organization provides both health and wellness opportunities. The data will be useful in navagating conversations with community stakeholders to create Community Identified projects. Our goal is to train community leaders who continue to shape healthy neighborhoods.

Excellent source of data!!! Neighborhood Data for Social Change is a great way to understand and improve the communities we love.

I can't think of a more formidable test for the power of this tool than the alleviation of poverty and homelessness in Skid Row. There are rich stories developing in the community right now that could use data support.

This platform is incredibly useful to getting a closer look at data beyond political and district demarcations. It represents the complexity of LA County and challenges large-scale and macro-level findings that fail to reflect grassroots and community-level trends.

There is so much rich data to explore here. Our agency is a non-profit that works on neighborhood improvement projects - mostly public and all community driven. The information in this resource will be invaluable to us in preparing grant applications and identifying areas of need.

This is a great tool helping to drive the conversation forward around civic engagement and voter turnout.

I am very impressed with the data training that took place today. I feel great knowing how accessible it is to see data in the community that I live in.

Thank you for the wonderful training. Our organization provides both health and wellness opportunities. The data will be useful in navagating conversations with community stakeholders to create Community Identified projects. Our goal is to train community leaders who continue to shape healthy neighborhoods.

NDSC is a powerful and time-efficient tool to understand L.A. County and how I can better engage in improving our neighborhoods. NDSC empowers everyone who uses it including musicians and artists.

NDSC is a great tool for public health advocates interested in gathering data across many policy areas. One of the best features is the ability to create a customized catchment area and the capability for cross-neighborhood comparisons, which is critical for better understanding health disparities and designing evidenece-based policies and programs.

Virtual Community Training Schedule

At community training workshops, participants will learn to access data for specific neighborhoods and cities within Los Angeles County, learn more about the data and understand why specific data sets are important, and conceptualize data stories to better tell the stories of their community.

Trainings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month for one hour – now virtual! Trainings are open to the public and free to attend.

To RSVP for an NDSC Community Training Workshop, please click on a link to the right.

To host a training in your community, please contact Elly Schoen at ebschoen@usc.edu.

NDSC Virtual Community Trainings:

Wed, May 17th @ 12pm – 1pm

Watch the Virtual Community Training Session from March 16, 2022:

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