Motivated by growing interest in accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision- and policy- making, questions about the outcomes and impacts of community development activities and ...

When the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) began a multi-year collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), they worked together to modernize a critical public health information source: ...

Re-TRAC Connect and The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, have launched the first phase of the Municipal Measurement Program (MMP). MMP is designed to provide municipalities with a ...

Given a complex voluntary environment with disparate partnership requirements, how can stakeholders in collective impact initiatives design and build interoperable community data systems to achieve ...

Analytics, at its core, is leveraging data for measuring and improving business outcomes. Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed.” Basically, effectively measuring ...

This issue of Community Investments focuses on the topic of data and measurement and its implications for community development. The articles provide an introduction to the basic concepts and ...

The World Bank supports the development and use of data to measure, track, and ultimately improve learning. Through the SABER (Systems Approach for Better Education Results) initiative, the World Bank ...