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Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
July 15, 2008
NEO CANDO Survey
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.
April 04, 2008
Poverty Center demonstration in KSL GIS Symposium
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.
February 06, 2008
NEO CANDO In Practice
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.
February 06, 2008
MSASS Faculty Member Rob Fischer selected for White House Faith-Based Conference
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.
January 03, 2008
NEO CANDO In Practice
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.
December 05, 2007
NEO CANDO In Practice
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.
November 05, 2007
Poverty Center's Claudia Coulton part of BBC look at America's foreclosure crisis
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.
November 02, 2007
NEO CANDO In Practice
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.
October 01, 2007
NEO CANDO In Practice
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.
September 24, 2007
Poverty Center Presentation at 2007 National Vacant Properties Campaign Conference
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:
September 05, 2007
NEO CANDO In Practice
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.
July 24, 2007
Poverty Center Mapping Series: Cleveland's Community Gardens
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.
July 05, 2007
NEO CANDO In Practice
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."
July 03, 2007
Claudia Coulton presents at the Inaugural Conference of International Society for Child Indicators
Dr. Coulton presented research she prepared with Dr. Jill Korbin, director of Case's Schubert Center for Children.
June 12, 2007
MSASS Faculty Member to Speak About Race, Class and Diversity
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.
May 23, 2007
Poverty Center presentation of AEC study at '07 AAG Conference.
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."
May 17, 2007
Poverty Center presentation on Literacy at The Literacy Cooperative's Instructors Learning Network (ILN)
Kristen Mikelbank presented about the state of literacy and poverty in Greater Cleveland at The Literacy Cooperative's Instructors Learning Network (ILN) launching meeting.
April 27, 2007
NEO CANDO Success Story
The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development's NEO CANDO community data resource is an invaluable tool for community development professionals.
October 18, 2006
Sharon Milligan presents to the Central Neigborhood Committee
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