These slides are from a webinar designed to demonstrate how to use HealthyCity.org to enhance your grant proposals and reports with visually impactful and relevant data, maps, and charts. Learn how to access data that highlights the needs and opportunities within your communities of interest and how to make the case that your program will make a difference. In this training you will learn how to: - Gather data for your particular area of interest by creating your own community boundaries. - Create maps and charts that provide the visual evidence to demonstrate both the need and potential within your community. - Report your results - make the case that your program or project has had a positive and measurable impact.

1. Information + action for social change How to Use HealthyCity.org for Grant Writing & Reporting

2. Healthy City is a project of… A public policy change organization rooted in the civil rights movement

5. FOUNDATIONS

6. GOVERNMENTONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGY www.HealthyCity.org COMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB Training community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented research & technology projects …is an information + action resource that unites rigorous research, community voices and innovative technologiesto solve the root causes of social inequity

7. Partners Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Advancement Project USC School of Social Work 2-1-1 LA County United Ways of California Children Now California Pan-Ethnic Health Network Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Prevention Institute The California Endowment Legal Services of No. Cal. CA Immigrant Policy Center CA Partnership California Rural Legal Assistance Central Valley Health Policy Institute Fresno Metro Ministry United Way Fresno County First 5 Fresno County Sacramento Housing Alliance UC Davis – Center for Regional Change Community Services Planning Council United Way Bay Area Santa Clara Comm. Benefits Coalition Urban Strategies Council San Mateo Healthy Communities Collaborative Contra Costa Crisis Center United Way of Fresno/2-1-1 2-1-1 San Diego 2-1-1 Monterey County 2-1-1 San Bernardino Volunteer Center of Riverside County United Way Bay Area/Helplink Community Service Planning Council – 2-1-1 Sacramento UW Silicon Valley/Santa Clara Eden I & R – 211 Alameda Interface Children Family Services – 2-1-1 Ventura Volunteer Center of Sonoma County

8. Agenda The Importance of Data in Grant Writing What Funders Want Focus on HealthyCity.org Gather data for your particular area of interest by creating your own community boundaries. Create maps and charts that provide the visual evidence to demonstrate both the need and potential within your community. Report your results - make the case that your program or project has had a positive and measurable impact.

9. Question for Participants (Type it in the question section) What is the problem you hope to address? What is the story you want to tell?

11. The Place (Where)

12. The Target Audience/Participants (Who)

14. Program plans and solutions make sense

18. “Is the population or area served by this grant primarily (51% or more) low- or moderate income?” Please describe how you determine if a program participant is low or moderate income.

21. Create maps and charts that provide the visual evidence to demonstrate both the need and potential within your community.

23. Types of Data on HealthyCity.org Services & Points Social Services & Nonprofits Hospitals and FQHCs Public & Private Schools Grocery Stores & WIC Vendors Alcohol Outlets & Toxic Sites And much more…

24. Types of Data on HealthyCity.org Thematic Population Characteristics Civic Participation Employment, Income & Poverty Health Conditions, Diseases, Injuries and Deaths Crime & Public Safety Housing And much more…

25. 1. Gather data for your particular area of interest by creating your own community boundaries. You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!

26. Example: SLABBC Mission: To promote healthier pregnancies, birth outcomes, and interconception care in South Los Angeles by strengthening linkages between community-based medical and social service providers.

27. You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!

28. My Account > Neighborhoods> Create a neighborhood

33.  Gather & view data within your specific boundary

34. Creating your own community boundaries Questions?

35. 2. Create maps and charts that provide the visual evidence to demonstrate both the need and potential within your community.

36. Click on Change to select your geography

47. Births to Mothers without a High School Diploma with Low Birthweight(under 2500 grams)

48. Chart data for your geography and compare to another

52. “In our service area, 14.85% of all births were to teen mothers, as compared to 9.71% for the County of Los Angeles.”

54. Removals from home

56. Map prenatal services, show current & potential partners

59. Interactive points Print your map & list of services

62. Visual Evidence to demonstrate need & potential

63. Create maps and charts that provide the visual evidence to demonstrate both the need and potential within your community. Questions?

64. 3. Report your results - make the case that your program or project has had a positive and measurable impact.

65. For example… SLABBC South L.A. Best Babies Collaborative In order to provide funders with information about the number and geographic location of participants in the program, SLABBC could upload their participant data, and view it along with other data available on HealthyCity.org

67. Click on Upload a Dataset

72. Now you can map your data!

73. Click the +- next to ANY thematic/indicator data category

77. Births to Mothers under 20 Years of Age Receiving Late or No Prenatal Care & Total SLABBC Participants 2007 - 2010

78. Report your results - make the case that your program or project has had a positive and measurable impact Questions?

80. Provide the visual evidence to demonstrate the need within your community