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

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  • Last updated: Nov. 14, 2024
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  • Research By: 9bCorp
  • Research Type: Community Study
  • 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.

    Data Sources

    STCH Food Bank Manager, ACS community data

    Data Fields

    Tract; veterans Served; veterans in the service area

    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.

    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.

    Casual

    Content

    Pov

    Veterans

    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

    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.

    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