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Organizations navigating today’s shifting landscape still hold real power — especially when they use data intentionally. This blog shares lessons from work with Family League of Baltimore, offering insights on data-driven strategy, collaboration, and community-centered learning.
Youth are facing intersecting crises, from housing to climate. This post offers 4 real strategies for creating opportunity — and why the time to act is now.
In 2021, Community Science started working with the Wend Collective, founded by James Walton and based in Denver, Colorado. Our evaluation focused on Wend’s Thriving Youth Initiative. The initiative centered around successful models and enabling conditions to help children and youth from historically disadvantaged populations
How can we better predict and plan for changes that affect one critical aspect of community development, like gentrification, displacement, or housing shortages? Many government officials, nonprofit leaders, and foundation program officers come to us with this question, often after investing in large data dashboards or completing housing needs assessments with metrics or strategies that quickly become outdated. Why? Because the housing market and development trends are constantly changing, and…
Education is more than just academics—it can address social issues like poverty, mental health, and inequality. By expanding supports for at-risk and disconnected youth beyond the classroom, we can use education to promote overall well-being and build stronger, healthier communities.
The past few years have been filled with many opportunities to work alongside young people aged 12 to 26 in doing what Community Science and I personally care most about - helping youth drive the changes they want to see in their communities. I first came to this work nearly 20 years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, doing research on coping through writing for high school seniors in…
