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All too often research is conducted in a way that is disconnected from the reality of life in communities, with findings often having little relevance to real-world program and policy decisions. With this publication, the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development highlights an example of how research and evaluation data have been effectively used over time in a major community initiative in the Cleveland region.

Drawing on a decade of transformative research done in partnership with Cuyahoga County's Office of Early Childhood/Invest in Children and its public/private set of collaborators, the report describes the experiences of this community initiative and concrete examples of how data have been used to inform practice and policy.

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"Transforming Civil Discourse and Neighborhood Identity through Action Research," a paper written by Mark Chupp, was recently selected by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) as the "Best Paper for 2008." Chupp, Assistant Professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Faculty Associate of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, presented the paper at ARNOVA's 2008 conference.

The economic epoch that has shaken the foundation of the American Dream and swallowed housing markets into a nationwide financial sinkhole has had several epicenters. One is the City of Cleveland.

Foreclosures and vacant properties in many neighborhoods have stock piled, values have plummeted, and numerous properties are being bought at below-market values of $10 thousand or less by real-estate speculators, most of whom are corporations that have no vested interest in planned and coordinated community development.

Now, Coulton and her colleagues are teaming up with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and The College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University in a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional partnership to provide a report to the nation, titled “Facing the Foreclosure Crisis in Greater Cleveland: What Happened and How Communities are Responding.” The new report is being funded in part by the Federal Reserve and Neighborhood Progress Incorporated. Coulton’s four previous reports were funded mainly by the The Cleveland Foundation and The George Gund Foundation, with additional support from Enterprise Foundation and Neighborhood Progress, Inc.

To see the full article from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences's Insight and Action please to here.

To see Foreclosure related research papers from the Poverty Center please go here.

Beyond REO: Property Transfers at Extremely Distressed Prices in Cuyahoga County, 2005-2008.

Pathways to Foreclosure: A Longitudinal Study of Mortgage Loans, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, 2005-2008.

Behind the Numbers Brief Number 6, Houses in transition: a report on properties owned by financial institutions and real estate organizations in Cuyahoga County, 2007.

Foreclosure and Beyond: A report on ownership and housing values following sheriff’s sales, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, 2000-2007.

"New Evidence and Implications for Community Initiatives" by Claudia J. Coulton, Brett Theodos, Margery Austin Turner

Publication Date: November 02, 2009

The text below is an excerpt from the complete document at the Urban Institute. Read the full report in PDF format.

Abstract

Americans change residences frequently. Residential mobility can reflect positive changes in a family's circumstances or be a symptom of instability and insecurity. Mobility may also change neighborhoods as a whole. To shed light on these challenges, this report uses a unique survey conducted for the Making Connections initiative. The first component measures how mobility contributed to changes in neighborhoods' composition and characteristics. The second component identifies groups of households that reflect different reasons for moving or staying in place. The final component introduces five stylized models of neighborhood performance: each has implications for low-income families' well-being and for community-change efforts.

This research is part of the work that the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development participates in for the Annie Casey Foundation's Making Connections Initiative.

New Thinking About Poverty in a Shrinking City: a presentation by Claudia Coulton, Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, September 2009.

Cleveland has lost more population and housing in the past 5 years than previous trends would have suggested. Yet it continues to be one of the poorest cities in America. This presentation documents the shifts in demographics and an economic downturn that suggest the need for new thinking about how to address poverty in a shrinking city.

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A Plain Dealer article by Brent Larkin, "Focus public investment on early-childhood intervention," on October 11, 2009, quotes Center Co-director Rob Fischer regarding Investment in Early Childhood in Cuyahoga County.

The articles main point can be summed up by this quote from the article from Arthur Rolnick and Rob Grunewald, officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis:

"We're quite certain that investing in early childhood education is more likely to create a vibrant economy that [sic] using public funds to lure a sports team by building a new stadium or attracting an automaker by providing tax breaks," Rolnick and Grunewald wrote in 2007. "The return on early childhood development programs that focus on at-risk families far exceeds the return on other projects that are funded as economic development."

The full article can be seen here.

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First year students Susan Ross and Jeong Woo Lee help survey vacant homes and lots in the City of East Cleveland, for their Macro and Policy Skills course. The students, accompanied by East Cleveland residents, surveyed the vacant properties and the results are helping city officials prioritize which buildings should be demolished. The students’ project helped the City of East Cleveland secure $2.2 million in federal funds from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

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The Cleveland Foundation and the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development recently began working together to show how the economic crisis is affecting Cuyahoga County. The result is an online display of data called “The Pulse.”

"The Pulse" succinctly uses four indicators to give its viewers a picture of the needs of Cuyahoga County residents:

• the number of people with food stamps benefits,
• the number of children with Medicaid benefits,
• mortgage foreclosures, (all from the Center's NEO CANDO system),
• and unemployment data from the Ohio Labor Market Information System.

These figures are updated on a monthly basis.

“The Pulse” was created in conjunction with the Cleveland Foundation's new Basic Needs Fund, which will help sustain local nonprofits that provide essentials like food, clothing, and shelter.

You can find “The Pulse” online at http://clevelandfoundation.org/grantmaking/Pulse.html.

The full NEO CANDO, Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing resources can be found here.

You can find The Cleveland Foundation Pulse press release here.

Prof. Mark Chupp and Doctoral candidate Diwakar Vadapalli, will present "Limitations and Lessons in Place-Based Community Development: The CDC Movement in the US" in Monterrey, Mexico at the 16th, International Consortium for Social Development Symposium.

Abstract:
Community Development Corporations (CDCs) in the US are a vital organizational mechanism for revitalization of disadvantaged communities. throughout their evolution in history, CDCs followed the dominant framrwork of "place-based community development'.

This study examines the diverse roles of CDC's in community revitalization in the Cleveland metropolitan area, their limitations in addressing challenges that result in part from larger state and federal policies in spite of their adoption of sophisticated and modern organizational mechanisms and techniques.

Recommendations include: 1) adopting a broader social development framework for building community capitals and 2) adopting a flexible unit of analysis that can be applied beyond the confines of a "place-based community'. Community-based organization in other countries, as they design their strategies for revitalization or development, can draw lessons from the experience of CDC's from a major American city.

Michigan Radio, July 20, 2009

The City of Cleveland has a goal of rehabbing 150 vacant homes, demolishing 300, and preventing another 300 homes from going into foreclosure. It's all part of a program called Opportunity Homes. The program relies on data from Mike Schramm and the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at Case Western Reserve University.

Read or listen to the WUOM 91.7, Ann Arbor, Michingan NPR affiliate interview here.

Cleveland Plain Dealer July 19, 2009

You can see a troubling new trend in the foreclosure crisis in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article by Sandra Livingston titled, "Bank 'walkaways' from foreclosed homes are a growing, troubling trend" here.

"Bank walkaways" are another troubling development in the foreclosure crisis, particularly in cities like Cleveland with weaker housing markets, say housing advocates and government officials. Where banks and Mortgage comanies choose to leave the house in legal limbo, rather than complete the foreclosure. Researchers at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at Case Western Reserve University are studying the issue.

Researcher Michael Schramm comments.

The Berea Children's Home and Family Services's Summer 2009 newsletter, Seeds of Hope, highlights The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development in the question-and-answer article, "Understanding Poverty: What Can Be Done To Help Children and Families?"

The Berea Children's Home and Family Services's site can be found here.

The Summer 2009 issue of the Seeds of Hope newsletter can be found here.

The Article with the Poverty Center starts on page 6 of the PDF version.

John Taylor, an urban planner from Indonesia, and José "Zay" Marcelo Zacchi, Executive Director of Overmundo Institute and a founder and a member of the Brazilian Public Security Forum Board of Directors, visited the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development.

Mr. Taylor is currently involved in facilitating data-driven decision-making in urban areas of Indonesia. Building bridges between policy establishment, political decision makers, and the population impacted by those decisions is at the core of Mr. Taylor efforts. The ‘Urban Observatory’, as he called it, will be a place to collect data from various sources and disseminate it in multiple formats such as tables and maps.

Mr. Taylor and Mr. Zacchi were at the Center for a three day exchange of ideas on democratizing data and assisting in local policy making. A video of their impressions of the Center and its work will be part of a documentary film that Mr. Taylor will be using to advocate for data-driven decision-making in Indonesia.

An overview of Mr. Taylor's presentation can be viewed, here. His bio can be found, on page ten, here.

Diwakar K. Vadapalli, Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, presented a paper in Carmona, Spain, April 22-24, at a research meeting titled, "Social Welfare and Cash Transfer Meeting," which was organized by both UNICEF and University College London, to discuss the role of social welfare services in improving cash transfer programs.

A communiqué released from the meeting is available here.

Mr. Vadapalli's paper is titled, "Barriers and challenges in accessing social transfers and role of social welfare services in improving targeting efficiency: a study of conditional cash transfers," and it was featured in the July edition of NASW News in the article, "Services Enhance Cash Programs: Information flow among the parties is vital to the success of cash transfer policies," by Paul R. Pace, that reports about this research meeting.

Mr. Vadapalli's paper will also be presented at the 2009 Symposium of the International Consortium for Social Development in Monerrey, Mexico on July 28th, 2009. It will appear in a special issue of the international journal Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies titled, "UNICEF Special Issue: Barriers and challenges in accessing social transfers and role of social welfare services in improving targeting efficiency: a study of conditional cash transfers by: D. Vadapalli."

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Family Homelessness in Cuyahoga County

A new Briefly Stated number 09-03, titled "Family Homelessness in Cuyahoga County" has been released. It summarizes research in a white paper by the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development regarding an analysis of the number of homeless families and "doubled up" families in Cuyahoga County.

The Briefly stated can be read or downloaded here.

The White paper, also titled "Family Homelessness in Cuyahoga County," can be read or downloaded here.

A brief radio article, on NPR affiliate WCPN, referencing this paper can be read or heard here.

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You are invited to watch a video on the university's YouTube channel featuring Marc A. Stefanski and Sharon Milligan on "The Impact of Housing on Financial Markets and Urban Families."

Stefanski is the chairman and CEO of Third Federal Savings and Loan; Milligan is associate dean for academic affairs at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Associate Director for Outreach and Education at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development.

The discussion—which took place during spring semester—was sponsored by the Office of the President, Case Western Reserve University.

To view this video please click here.

NEO CANDO property data update

Lord knows...But what do we know about the effectiveness of faith-based programming?

Beginning with the Clinton Administration and greatly extended under George W. Bush, the federal government has expanded the role of faith-based providers in the delivery of a range of human services.

Since 2001, the Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI) has aimed to give these organizations equal opportunity with secular and larger organizations to secure federal funding for the delivery of social services.

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Quality Matters - Assessing the quality of early care settings in Cuyahoga County

This document summarizes recent research which investigates the effects of County programs which promote increased capactiy and quality in the region's childcare.

Using data from 177 pre-school classrooms, this study was undertaken to assess the level of quality in regulated early care and education settings in and around Cleveland, Ohio.

The quality of care in settings serving young children is a crucial concern in policy and practice circles as we seek ways to promote child development. This study examined the structural and contextual factors associated with high quality care and was designed to inform a community-wide initiative focused on child well-being and school readiness.

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New Poverty Center report examines what happens to properties after sheriff's sale and REO ownership

Many properties that go into foreclosure eventually end up at a sheriff's auction, where they are usually purchased by the banks, mortgage companies, mortgage services, and government-sponsored enterprises involved in financing the foreclosed mortgage loan. These properties are referred to as "REO" (real-estate owned) properties. Between 2005 and 2008, there has been a drastic increase in REO properties being sold at extremely low prices—$10,000 and often less.

The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development has produced a report,
Beyond REO: Property Transfers at Extremely Distressed Prices in Cuyahoga County, 2005-2008, that takes a look at the trend of REO properties sold at $10,000 or less; the most frequent sellers and buyers of these properties in 2007 and 2008; time between property transactions; the price of properties in subsequent transactions; and limited information about the practices of some buyers and sellers of REO properties.

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Among its many functions, the Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing (NEO CANDO) database allows users to extract data across geography and time to examine trends.

The second map in the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development’s Map Series illustrates changes in Food Stamp enrollment between July 2000 and July 2008.

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Sharon Milligan Presents on Poverty to the Young Presidents Organization as part of a panel that addressed Poverty in Cleveland.

The event was held at the Christian Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Cleveland on October 22, 2008.

Others joining Dr. Milligan on the panel that presented to the Young Presidents Organization were Joe Gaunter, Cuyahoga County Employment & Family Services; Reverend Bruce Goode, Christian Hope Missionary Baptist Church; and Judy Simpson, United Way of Greater Cleveland. The panel's moderator was Regina Brett from The Plain Dealer.

The handout providing an update about poverty statistics in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County was distributed to those who attended and is available here.

The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals and research.

Read about how two researchers, Fahui Wang and Richard Smith utilize NEO CANDO for policy evaluation in Evaluating Economic Development in Cleveland's Urban Neighborhoods.

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To sustain NEO CANDO as a free resource to the community, we are now requiring self-registration and login in to access the Social and Economic Data and Quick Profiles in NEO CANDO. We have been using this login successfully for the past 2 years on the Property Data section. If you have already registered to use the Property Data you do not need to self register again.

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These profiles summarize key data pertinent to the early childhood population in Cuyahoga County’s communities. This is provided as a reference tool that may be helpful in understanding community needs and existing services for children. A version of this profile was originally developed by the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development for Invest in Children. Invest in Children, administered by the Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners, is a community-wide public/private partnership working together to help increase the development, funding, visibility, and impact of early childhood services in Cuyahoga County. The common goal of these partners is to make sure that all children have quality services available to them, which assist in their earliest developmental years and ensure they enter kindergarten healthy, happy, and ready to learn. Click here to view sources for indicators in the profiles.

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Data Sources Recently Updated:

Let us know how we are doing! Please take the NEO CANDO survey by clicking the following link:
http://neocando.case.edu/survey

There are also links to the survey on the NEO CANDO home page under "NEO CANDO features" and the "Questions and Comments" section on the left.

Your feedback is valuable to the improvement and maintenance of the system.

If you took the last survey, you can still take this one.

The survey will be available through July 31.

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Over the past few months the following data sources have been updated:
Social and Economic Data:

New Poverty Center report examines circumstances most likely to lead a property to foreclosure

Foreclosure rates in Northeast Ohio have grown exponentially in recent years and present unprecedented challenges for communities, governments and households. Subprime lending has also increased markedly as a proportion of all mortgage loans originated in the region during this period and is widely believed to have played an important role in the current foreclosure crisis.

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Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities "Cityscapes" Series. Claudia J. Coulton, of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, interviewed Thomas J. Sugrue, a visiting fellow from the University of Pennsylvania, and author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit" (1996), will present "Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North" 29:28 min.

View the Case Utube Video Here.

Kristen Mikelbank & Michael Schramm, presented a poster and a demo of NEO CANDO, the web-based social and property indicators data system, at The Kelvin Smith Library GIS Symposium, titled,

"The NEO CANDO Database: How it can be Used to Help Understand the Surrounding Environment"

Additional Authors: Tsui Chan and Claudia Coulton

Abstract is available here.

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Property transfer data through February 29, 2008 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

NEO CANDO has transfer history back to January 1, 1976 for all parcels in Cuyahoga County.

Property transfer data through January 31, 2008 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

NEO CANDO has transfer history back to January 1, 1976 for all parcels in Cuyahoga County.

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Public assistance data for January 2008 have been added to the Social and Economic Data report.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.

Read about how Rebecca Kodysh of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland uses NEO CANDO in
Demonstrating the need for community services.

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Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Research Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Urban Poverty & Community Development Rob Fischer, has been selected to write a commissioned paper for the upcoming White House Conference on Research Related to the Faith-Based and Community Initiative to be held in June 2008.

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Attendance and enrollment data for the 2006-2007 school year have been added to the Social and Economic report in NEO CANDO. These data are only available for the Cleveland School District.

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Property transfer data through December 31, 2007 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

NEO CANDO has transfer history back to January 1, 1976 for all parcels in Cuyahoga County.

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Property transfer data through November 30, 2007 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

NEO CANDO has transfer history back to January 1, 1976 for all parcels in Cuyahoga County.

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A new report from the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University addressing the foreclosure issue calls for refinancing loans or providing assistance to homeowners as an effort to maintain property values and prevent vandalism and deterioration to vacant structures.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.

Read about how Matt Russell of Center on Health Promotion at Case Western Reserve University uses NEO CANDO in
Providing Context to Research Findings Using Demographic Indicators.

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2006 juvenile delinquency data have been added to the Social and Economic Data report. These data are only available for Cuyahoga County.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.

Read about how Debra Peck-Baumgardner of Buckeye Area Development Corporation uses NEO CANDO in
Targeting Capital to Encourage Successful Home Ownership.

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Property transfer data through October 31, 2007 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

NEO CANDO has transfer history back to January 1, 1976 for all parcels in Cuyahoga County.

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Public assistance data for October 2007 have been added to the Social and Economic Data report.

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The U.S. foreclosure crisis has earned international attention, with BBC news turning toward Mandel professor and Poverty Center director Claudia Coulton for some answers and analysis.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.

Read about Joy Brewington of Catalyst Cleveland use of NEO CANDO in Documenting Analyzing and Supporting School Improvement Efforts.

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Property transfer data through September 30, 2007 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

NEO CANDO has transfer history back to January 1, 1976 for all parcels in Cuyahoga County.

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2004 death data have been added for all 17 NEO CANDO counties to the Social and Economic Data report.

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Second quarter (June 2007) United States Postal Service (USPS) data from HUD on addresses and vacant addresses have been added as to the Social and Economic report in NEO CANDO for all 17 counties.

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2006 child maltreatment data have been added to the Social and Economic Data report. These data are only available for Cuyahoga County.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.

Read about Frank Ford from Neighborhood Progress, Inc and Stacy Pugh from Slavic Village Development's use of NEO CANDO's property data in Creating Regionally Competitive Neighborhoods of Choice.

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Property transfer data through August 31, 2007 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

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Michael Schramm, analyst/programmer at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, travels to Pittsburgh to present the following at the 2007 Vacant Properties conference convened by the National Vacant Properties Campaign and the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank:

2004 birth data have been added for all 17 NEO CANDO counties to the Social and Economic Data report.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.

Read about Jeff Sugalski and Burten Bell Carr's use of NEO CANDO's crime data in Evaluating Social Change, Developing Community.

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Public assistance data for July 2007 have been added to the Social and Economic Data report.

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January 1, 2000 through September 1, 2007

It is now 6 months later and the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, using its NEO CANDO database, has updated the results of the Behind the Numbers Brief Number 6, Houses in transition: a report on properties owned by financial institutions and real estate organizations in Cuyahoga County, 2007.

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Property transfer data through July 31, 2007 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

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Behind the Numbers, BRIEF NO. 6, Titled "Houses in transition: A report on properties owned by financial institutions and real estate organizations in Cuyahoga County, 2007," discusses the rapid rise in foreclosure rates and housing abandonment in Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs.

This topic is garnering national attention and threatening to overwhelm the government agencies and community organizations that address the problem.

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The Poverty Center has released its May 2007 Briefly Stated, "Space to learn and grow: Early care and education capacity in Cuyahoga County." This document summarizes recent research which investigates the effects of County programs which promote increased capactiy and quality in the region's childcare.

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The quick profiles in NEO CANDO have been upgraded to include aggregate information on the 17 county NEO CANDO service area and the 8 county Cleveland-Akron CMSA.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development creates maps for numerous research projects that may be of interest to a wider audience. With this map of community gardens, prepared by the Center's Kristen Mikelbank, in collaboration with Matthew E. Russell of the Center for Health Promotion Research for his paper Steps to a Healthier Cleveland: 2006 Community Garden Report, the Center debuts its mapping series. View the map of Cleveland's Community Garden Sites by Neighborhood here.

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Property transfer data through June 30, 2007 have been added to the parcel report in NEO CANDO.

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Business pattern data have been updated for 2004 and 2005 in the Social and Economic report in NEO CANDO. These data are available for all 17 NEO CANDO counties at the zip code tabulation area and the county levels.

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Population estimates from the Census Bureau for 2006 the have been added to the Social and Economic component of NEO CANDO. These data are only available at the Township (MCD) level and the county level.

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Parcel characteristics and tax billing information have been added to the parcel report for the 2006 tax year. These include updated market values from the 2006 reassessment. Also, variables and filters on parcels receiving the homestead exemption and 2.5% owner-occupied reduction have been added at the request of NEO CANDO users. Finally, lot shape has been updated after being missing for the 2004 and 2005 tax years.

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Crime Data for 2006 has been added to NEO CANDO.

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The quick profiles in NEO CANDO have been upgraded to include aggregate information on the 17 county NEO CANDO service area and the 8 county Cleveland-Akron CMSA.

Select “Regional” as your geographic level and then make either the 17 or 8 county selection. These profiles return side-by-side information on each county for comparison.

Select “County” as your geographic level after choosing a county. This profile will allow comparison between the chosen county with the aggregate values for both the 8 county Cleveland-Akron CMSA and the 17 county NEO CANDO service area.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.

Read about Terry Lenahan, use of NEO CANDO to predict and organize hunger solutions in "Documenting Hunger Trends in Greater Cleveland."

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Dr. Coulton presented research she prepared with Dr. Jill Korbin, director of Case's Schubert Center for Children.

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The Heights Community Congress (HCC) will host "Perception vs. Reality: How Do We Talk About Race, Class and Diversity In Our Own Community?" beginning at 7 p.m. on June 13 at John Hay High School, 2075 Stokes Blvd. Mark Chupp, a visiting assistant professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, is part of the panel. Free, open to the public. For more information, call the HCC at 216- 321-6775. Visit the Heights Congress site for more information.

Property transfer data through April 30, 2007 have been added

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As part of Invest in Children's Annual Meeting on June 4, 2007,
Cuyahoga County will share an update on the ongoing evaluation of its
programs. Since 2000 faculty and staff from the Center on Urban
Poverty and Community Development at MSASS have conducted a variety of studies related to the the condition of and services for children up to age six in Cuyahoga County. The evaluation team is led by Dr.
Claudia Coulton, Lillian F. Harris Professor, and Dr. Rob Fischer,
Research Associate Professor.

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Kristen Mikelbank presents an AECF study at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco. The presentation was titled, "Residents" Perceptions of Neighborhood and the Implications for Community Change."

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Special study areas around University Circle have been added to the Social and Economic report.

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2005-2006 proficiency test data for the Cleveland Municipal School District have been added to the Social and Economic Data report.

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Public assistance data for April 2007 have been added to the Social and Economic Data report.

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Zip code tabulation areas have been added as a new geography to the Social and Economic report. These are a Census geography that are generalized area representations of U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ZIP Code service areas and are built from 2000 Census blocks.

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Kristen Mikelbank presented about the state of literacy and poverty in Greater Cleveland at The Literacy Cooperative's Instructors Learning Network (ILN) launching meeting.

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Claudia Coulton, Co-Director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, is presenting the Catalog of Administrative Data Sources for Neighborhood Indicators at the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology) 2007 Conference in Montreal. This monograph discusses using neighborhood indicators to identify problems, plan programs, stimulate community activism, target investments, evaluate initiatives and otherwise inform the community about itself.

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Home Mortgage Disclosure data (HMDA) for 2005 have been added to NEO CANDO for all 17 counties. These data are available at the tract level and the county level for non Cuyahoga counties. In Cuyahoga County these data area available at the Neighborhood, DCFS Geodistrict, Cleveland Planning District, Township (MCD) or City/Village level.

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NEO CANDO, Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing, is a free and publicly accessible social and economic data system of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, a research institute housed at Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. NEO CANDO allows users to access data for the entire 17 county Northeast Ohio region, or for specific neighborhoods within Cleveland.

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The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.

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Property transfer data through March 31, 2007 have been added

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WCPN's Mhari Saito interviewed Mike Schramm, a programmer analyst at the Center on Urban Poverty, regarding an analysis that he did regarding the number of unrecorded sheriff's deeds in Cuyahoga County.

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Property transfer data through Feb 28, 2007 have been added

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Please take the NEO CANDO survey by clicking here. Your feedback is very important to us and will help us improve NEO CANDO!

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Public assistance data through January 2007 have been added to the Social and Economic Data report.

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More exporting options have been added to the Social and Economic Data report. By clicking “Download Menu” on the results screen, users can now export data into the following formats: CSV, Excel, DBASE/DBF(for GIS mapping) and a SAS dataset.

Also, new identifier fields have been added when exporting tract, block group, or block data. These fields correspond with the STFID field found in GIS datasets downloaded from ESRI’s Geography Network and should help users join NEO CANDO data easier to these GIS datasets. Also, because DBF files limit field names to 10 characters or less, a variable code to variable name lookup dbf can be downloaded from the “Download Menu” as well.

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December 14, 2006
Death data for 2003 from the Ohio Department of Health have been added to the Social and Economic Report.

December 12, 2006
Business Pattern data have been added as a new subject category in the Social and Economic Data report in NEO CANDO. These data are only available at the Zip Code Tabulation Area and County geographic levels.

County and Zip Business Patterns provide data on business establishments and employment by industry and establishment size. The information is derived from the Standard Statistical Establishment List, a file of all known companies maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Bureau obtains data for the list from its own programs as well as administrative files from the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Business Patterns data cover most of the country's economic activity, but exclude data on the self-employed and most government workers.

The data are currently available for 1998-2003.

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Presents "Building upon the work of others: The Cleveland Community Building Initiative Experience" to the Central Neighborhood Committee, at The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland October 17, 2006

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NEO CANDO expanded in depth and breadth, now including 17 northeast Ohio counties and data down to the parcel level.

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Cuyahoga County Early Childhood Initiative Evaluation: Phase II Final Report

Introduction:

Since mid-1999, a bold initiative has been underway in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to improve the well-being of the youngest members of the greater Cleveland community. A community-wide initiative targeting children from birth through age five and their families was launched in July 1999, and in the following 5 years demonstrated substantial success in developing a universal and comprehensive approach for supporting families with young children.

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Cuyahoga County Early Childhood Initiative Evaluation: Phase I Final Report

Synopsis:

In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a community-wide, multifaceted initiative directed at children from birth through age 5 has been forged to meet the need for a universal and comprehensive approach for supporting all families with young children.

In its first three years (July 1999 - June 2002), the Early Childhood Initiative (ECI) was launched by a broad-based coalition of public and private partners brought together by County government. The programs of the ECI have been woven into the fabric of local services and have met their target goals of numbers of clients served.

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Cuyahoga County Early Childhood Initiative Evaluation and Research Project Interim Report
November 2001

Synopsis:

Investing in the well-being of its youngest children has become a top priority in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. As a result of a community-wide, multifaceted three-year initiative directed at children from birth to age 5 and the individuals who care for these children, an understanding about the critical importance of the early childhood years has been created at the highest levels of public and civic leadership in Cuyahoga County. The political will has been forged to meet the need for a universal and comprehensive approach for supporting families and young children.

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