How many veterans were served in nonprofit service area by tract?

Who Is The Researcher For This Question?

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Sources

private

Source: We All Count

Project Restrictions

The database used to track nonprofit participants is limited and may not accurately show all of the veterans being served. The community data used for comparison is a year behind and is only a representative sample of the full data.

Project Rewards

STCH by knowing where the gaps are and what their focus needs to be; potentially the funders who can show the number of veterans their money is supporting; the community if more resources are alocated to the organization that will ulitmately help the veterans in that community

Definitions Of Success

Help nonprofit show how much they are helping real needs and where more funding is necessary to meet the rest of the community needs.

Project Goals

Show the gap between kids veterans served by nonprofit versus total in the community. Clearly present the data to the nonprofit so they can use the information to present to funders and other stakeholders.

Implicit Bias

Not discussed.

Centered Perspectives

The nonprofit. The funders who needed to see the information.

Date Report Released

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Date Requested

-

Date Report Refreshed

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Data Sources

STCH Food Bank Manager, ACS community data

Data Fields

Tract; veterans Served; veterans in the service area

Research Sources

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Research Questions

What is the number of veterans in poverty in the STCH service area? What are the gaps between the kids served by STCH and those veterans in the STCH service area? Which tracts have the highest need?

Answer Process

Compared the STCH service numbers to the most recent ACS data.

Onus To Change

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Descriptive

Weight

No

Generalization

Placing all veterans into one category.

Predicitive

Effect Of Disaggregation

Tract level changes the data? Breaking out the data based on smaller age ranges, sex, race, ethnicity would add additional insights.

Specificity

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Accuracy

-

Sensitivity

-

Casual

Other Variables

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Perspective

-

Content

Topics

-

Complexity

-

Pov

Veterans

Relevance

-

Clarity

-

Cultural Translation

-

Depth

Raw data is available for the ACS data, and aggregate numbers by tract for the STCH data.

Narrative

Basic story about gaps. Not coming to any conclusions or making assumptions about causation.

Access

Private Vs Public

Private

Isolated Vs Network

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Live Vs Standalone

The nonprofit data can be updated on a monthly basis as their monthly report is updated. The comparison to the ACS data can only be updated once a year when that information is updated.

Branding

There was no branding.

Interactive Vs Demonstrative

Interactive Dashboard.

Static Vs Dynamic

Dynamic

Digital Vs Print

Digital

Medium

Feedback

The nonprofit gave feedback on the dashboard via emails and verbally.

Ableism

-

Copyright

No copyright issues

Depth

Raw data is available for the ACS data, and aggregate numbers by tract for the STCH data.

Permanence

As long as the client maintains access to the dashboard.

Training

A highschool reading level but no specific training.

Ownership

The dashboard is stored on a 9b license, but the data itself is owned by nonprofit or ACS.

Paywall

Yes

Digital Vs Print

Digital