How to Use Community Insight in Three Easy Steps
This step-by-step guide explains how to use the Community Insight public dashboard to view indicators from multiple datasets on topics like education, health, unemployment, household income, and more.
Category: Data & Data Tools
How to Exclude Nonprofits Without Even Trying: Grant Eligibility Requirements Narrow Your Pool
Jeff Williams explains how traditional donor, nonprofit, and foundation practices are often rooted in misconceptions about the scale and breadth of the sector, leaving many nonprofits out to dry when it comes to grant eligibility.
Introducing Community Insight: A New, Interactive Data Platform
Drawing on multiple datasets, Community Insight is an online platform for displaying data about local communities, understanding community opportunities and needs, and targeting efforts for advancing equity.
Data Comes of Age in Philanthropy
Jeff Williams describes how individual organizations balance privacy and transparency, address equity of access, and act upon data to create and share actionable knowledge will be key for philanthropy going forward.
Data Science for Social Impact
Adriaza Paz examines the growing number of foundations and individual philanthropists investing in data scientists and data-informed decision making.
Kent County Essential Needs Task Force Shares How They’re Using the Economic Inclusion in Grand Rapids Report
Representatives from the Kent County Essential Needs Task Force speak with us about how their organization is using data from our “Economic Inclusion in Grand Rapids” report to inform their work and further their mission.
Putting Economic Inclusion Data to Work in Grand Rapids
In this interview with Stacy Stout, director of equity and engagement with the City of Grand Rapids, she shares how the City is using key data from the Johnson Center’s “Economic Inclusion in Grand Rapids” report.
In the Time of Coronavirus: How Many Eligible Nonprofits Benefited From the Paycheck Protection Program?
Analyzing data from nearly five million records, we explore how nonprofits fared under the Paycheck Protection Program and consider its impact on nonprofit employment.
In the Time of Coronavirus: What Is the Risk to Nonprofits Nationwide?
In this fourth of a five-part series, Jeff Williams shares how researchers at the Johnson Center analyzed data to determine the post-COVID risk to nonprofits nationwide.
In the Time of Coronavirus: Can Nonprofits and Foundations Use Their Endowments as a Resource for Recovery?
Jeff Williams presents a series of financial simulations that may help sector leaders determine whether or not to dip into their endowments this year to help with their economic recovery efforts.