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Tips To Ensure Impact: Finding And Applying Financial Data To Governance Challenges, Craig S. Maher Sep 2022

Tips To Ensure Impact: Finding And Applying Financial Data To Governance Challenges, Craig S. Maher

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

Finding and applying financial data to governance challenges Breakout Session


Tips To Ensure Impact: Best Practices In Sharing Data With Elected Officials, Renee Fry Sep 2022

Tips To Ensure Impact: Best Practices In Sharing Data With Elected Officials, Renee Fry

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

Best practices in sharing data with elected officials Breakout Session


Tips To Ensure Impact: Best Practices In Sharing Data With Funders And Foundations, Emily Nguyen Sep 2022

Tips To Ensure Impact: Best Practices In Sharing Data With Funders And Foundations, Emily Nguyen

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

Best practices in sharing data with funders and foundations Breakout Session.


2020 Toolkit For Centering Racial Equity, Actionable Intelligence For Social Policy Sep 2022

2020 Toolkit For Centering Racial Equity, Actionable Intelligence For Social Policy

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

Societal “progress” is often marked by the construction of new infrastructure that fuels change and innovation. Just as railroads and interstate highways were the defining infrastructure projects of the 1800 and 1900s, the development of data infrastructure is a critical innovation of our century. Railroads and highways were drivers of development and prosperity for some investors and sites. Yet other individuals and communities were harmed, displaced, bypassed, ignored, and forgotten by those efforts. As railroads and highways both developed and decimated communities, so too can data infrastructure. At this moment in our history, we can co-create data infrastructure to promote …


Tips To Ensure Impact: Using Data To Understand Root Causes To Detrimental Disparate Outcomes, Cammy Watkins Sep 2022

Tips To Ensure Impact: Using Data To Understand Root Causes To Detrimental Disparate Outcomes, Cammy Watkins

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

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Applying Data To Impact The Lives Of Nebraskans, Josie Gatti Schafer Sep 2022

Applying Data To Impact The Lives Of Nebraskans, Josie Gatti Schafer

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

A range of data points exist to characterize the lives of Nebraskans. Once we have the data, we need to share the data so we can raise awareness, build coalitions, and create programs and policies that will impact the lives of Nebraskans. Attend this session to explore the variety of ways data can be analyzed, visualized, and disseminated to ensure it has maximum impact. This session will be an overview of topics that UNO CPAR has provided data for in the state, including workforce equity, entrepreneurship development, and mobility of Nebraskans. In addition, we will demonstrate our approach to analyzing …


Tips For Getting Started Accessing Data: Available Data On Economic Topics, Kim Davis Aug 2022

Tips For Getting Started Accessing Data: Available Data On Economic Topics, Kim Davis

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

• Economics of Census • Economic Programs • Economic Data Resources & Products • Quarterly Workforce Indicators Explorer • Resources & Contact Information


Tips For Getting Started Accessing Data: Available Data On Housing For Nebraska, Mike Norton Aug 2022

Tips For Getting Started Accessing Data: Available Data On Housing For Nebraska, Mike Norton

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

We are a national mission-driven financial institution that creates opportunity for underserved people and places through partnerships. We marshal the capital, analytics, and expertise necessary to build strong, healthy, and more equitable communities. Since 1985, Reinvestment Fund has made $2.7 billion in cumulative investments and loans. We are supported by 830 investors that include individuals, foundations, religious institutions, financial institutions, civic organizations and government.


Tips For Getting Started Accessing Data: Accessing Acs Data From Data.Census.Gov, Carol Miller Aug 2022

Tips For Getting Started Accessing Data: Accessing Acs Data From Data.Census.Gov, Carol Miller

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

Objectives ✓ Understand more about census geography ✓ Access data through census.gov ✓ Navigate Quick Facts, data.census.gov and My Community Explorer ✓ Locate resources for additional learning, research and data assistance


New To Gathering Data On The Lives Of Nebraskans? Start Here, Carol Miller, Josie Gatti Schafer Aug 2022

New To Gathering Data On The Lives Of Nebraskans? Start Here, Carol Miller, Josie Gatti Schafer

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

A range of resources exist to understand the population, economic, and social trends of Nebraskans and of our region provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, including and beyond the 2020 Census. This data has a wide range of applications, including grant writing, needs assessments, planning, reporting, and evaluation. Attend this session for an overview of resources to characterize life in Nebraska from the U.S. Census Bureau and from the University of Nebraska at Omaha Center for Public Affairs Research.


President Lopez Obrador’S Response To Femicide, Paola Briones Mar 2022

President Lopez Obrador’S Response To Femicide, Paola Briones

UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair

Femicide is defined as the specific targeting and assassination of women. While femicide exists worldwide, particularly in Latin America, Mexico has one of the highest reported rates of femicide. This paper will analyze the Lopez Obrador administration’s lack of response to rising femicide rates. The administration has not created a special prosecutor’s office to address the phenomenon; ninety-three percent of femicides remain unsolved. Previous research maintains several factors contribute to femicide including machismo, high national crime rates, and poverty. Although previous research explores causes of femicide, it neglects to provide concrete explanations for the intentional inaction of acting administrations. In …