Making data accessible & actionable

A growing number of communities are confronting housing shortages. Many nonprofits, worried about cuts to essential services, are addressing such basics as food and health. We tailor data to their areas of concern. Each dashboard is different, focusing on specific needs. We serve as a pipeline, transporting hard, timely data into easy-to-understand graphics, maps and text. Clients have the option of opening the dashboard to the public or requiring a password. The example below is an amalgam of data from several Upstate communities.

Building the framework

Gut check

First, we assess your needs. You tell us about shifting support, your funding sources, your needs, worries and hopes for the future.

We call this a “gut check.” When so many communities and community groups are experiencing deep cuts in federal funding and the threat of a distressed economy, some auxiliary services may have to be reduced or eliminated altogether. In many if not most instances, a complete transition from Washington to state, local, and individual support will be impossible. There will be a need to focus on core mission.

After this preliminary assessment, we work together to assemble the arrangement of our services that best meets your needs. These areas can include:

Funding

• Budgets – Graphic analysis of revenues & expenditures
• Collection & databasing of donor lists
• AI-assisted personalization of communications with donors
• Relationship mapping
• What ifs – custom-tailored simulators focusing on selected issues
• Alerts about prospect activities, contributions, financial transactions
• Identification of potential funders & collaborators

Profiling

What are the demographics of your community and/or your organization? Of your residents or audience?

You sense that housing or traffic are becoming an increasing problem. Perhaps you worry that the young people of your community have never fully recovered from the trauma of the pandemic.

Using journalistic skills honed over decades, we assemble data to provide greater insight into local challenges and patterns. Data is designed to be incorporated into comprehensive plans as well as grant applications.

Planning & reports

By combining current information, interactive graphics and simulations, and mapping, we create next-generation, living documents.

In short, we dig up the data, install the pumps and lay the pipes. You turn the spigot.