National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and 21 local NNIP partners to further the development and use of neighborhood-level information systems in local policy making and community building. Current NNIP activities are sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

NNIP local partners have built advanced information systems with integrated and recurrently updated information on neighborhood conditions in their cities. Creation of this capacity, which did not exist in any U.S. city fifteen years ago, represents an important technical and institutional breakthrough. To succeed, NNIP partners needed to overcome the resistance of local public agencies to sharing administrative data.

Because of major cost reductions made possible through new information technologies, they have shown that such systems can be locally self-sustaining. Their indicators cover topics such as births, deaths, crime, health status, educational performance, public assistance, and property conditions.

The Council is one of the six original members of the partnership, which now numbers twelve organizations. The Council was one of the six founding members of NNIP and the Council's CEO serves on the Executive Committee of the Partnership.

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• National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership