Neighborhood Nexus

Community intelligence creates intelligent communities.

Information matters

Image
Neighborhood Nexus is a community intelligence system providing data, tools and expertise as a catalyst to create more equitable opportunity for all of the region’s residents. Neighborhood Nexus helps mission-driven organizations across the region ask the right questions, use the best data, tell compelling stories and make informed decisions. Its goal is to meet challenges, leverage assets and create opportunity. Because with more robust data, organizations can better serve and strengthen their constituents and communities.

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

Neighborhood Nexus is led by a volunteer advisory committee comprised of data and community-building experts.

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