Neighborhood Nexus
Community intelligence creates intelligent communities.
Information matters
How it works
Neighborhood Nexus serves the region in three ways: providing comprehensive access, custom insights and data fluency.
Community data from national, state, and local sources is available in one place at various geographic levels: neighborhood, census tract, city, county and legislative district. The data be accessed and downloaded with free mapping tools to visualize and analyze critical community indicators. This allows organizations to devote their time to analyzing the data and making informed decisions, as opposed to searching for data.
Neighborhood Nexus also provides tailored tools to meet informational needs. Whether informing strategic planning, guiding data-driven volunteer recruitment and management or creating a community resource, Neighborhood Nexus can help identify insights and tell stories using data.
Neighborhood Nexus understands that distributing data into the community is only half the job. The end user needs to know how to use that data, so data fluency training is offered. At the end of the training, users will understand not only how to find and use data, but also the tools that are available. Finally, they will be able to identify the civic and ethical implications at stake when using that data.
Core partners and support
Neighborhood Nexus receives critical contributions from its core partners: Atlanta Regional Commission, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Metro Atlanta Chamber and United Way of Metro Atlanta.
From the beginning, Neighborhood Nexus has been a collaborative project. The Community Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation Atlanta Civic Site and United Way of Greater Atlanta were the original co-conveners and funders. Additional funding sources to date include generous support from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Healthcare Georgia Foundation, the Knight Foundation, Kaiser Community Benefit, the Zeist Foundation, the R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation, Georgia Power Foundation, LexisNexis, Wells Fargo, the Urban Institute and the Tull Charitable Foundation.
Advisory board
David Oliver, Board Chair
Senior Vice President, Member Solutions, Georgia Bankers Association
Mike Alexander
Director of Center for Livable Communities, Atlanta Regional Commission
Alan Andersen
Assistant Vice President for University Partnerships, Emory University
Ginneh Baugh
Vice President of Strategic Impact, United Way of Greater Atlanta
Christine Brodnan
Regional Program Director, Horizons Atlanta
Diana Champ Davis
Vice President, Capacity and Chief Financial Officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Dr. Mallory Freeman
Principal Data Scientist, Advanced Technology Group, UPS
Debra Lam
Managing Director, Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation, Georgia Institute of Technology; Executive Director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation
Maria Mollise
Director, Commercial Real Estate, Weissman
Julia Day Neighbors
Director of Administration and Court Support Services, Fulton County Juvenile Court
Dr. Steve Nichols
Chief Technology Officer, Georgia Technology Authority
Dr. Dana Rickman
President, Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education
Charles Ross
Interim President and CEO, International Business Innovation Association (InBIA)
Fabiola Charles Stokes
Atlanta Market Executive, Community Affairs, Google
Dr. Beverly Wright
Partner, Data Science, RelationalAI; Partner, ATLytics
To learn more about Neighborhood Nexus, contact:
neighborhoodnexus.org
info@neighborhoodnexus.org