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DrillDown profiles combine Social Compact’s many innovative economic and demographic methodologies into a powerful information package unique in scope, breadth and accuracy -- compared with conventional inner-city economic analyses -- unearthing new…
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Social Compact's Census program aims to implement a range of initiatives including technical assistance, workshops, training materials, and other tools in a combined effort with the Census Bureau to create a set of more standardized data collection and…
Your Fair Share Census Program -
Social Compact maintains a number of mapping tools and applications that expose its data in interfaces that are easy to use and open access, multiplying the effectiveness our data.
Existing applications include Social Compacts CityDNA, MortgageLeadr,…Tools & Applications -
Broadly, Social Compact’s efforts regarding food access addresses the following seven elements:
1. Understanding the barriers in the local market
2. Providing an assessment of market demand
3. Identifying multiple site locationsFood Access -
The lack of access to traditional banking and financial services often translates to barriers to wealth creation in marginalized communities. Our research uncovers market anomalies and continues to develop new ways to measure the use and presence of financial…
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Understanding retail spending patterns in a community is essential to a city’s economic development. Our retail analysis provides information for city planners, developers, CDCs and retailers as they develop a plan of action for a community’s retail…
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Announcing the Social Compact Investment Fund
Social Compact, Inc., a national non-profit organization, has created the Social Compact Investment Fund (SCIF) to support the development of supermarket-anchored retail projects in underserved marketplaces. These investments will bring new grocery stores into markets that the traditional, national supermarket and grocery store chains have long overlooked. The stores supported by SCIF investments will offer high-quality general merchandise, seasonal goods and everyday consumables at very competitive prices, in addition to USDA-inspected beef, pork and poultry, farm-fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Fill Out Your Census Forms!
April is almost here. It is a month for pouring rain, playing pranks, painting eggs, and paying taxes. But since this is a year ending in zero that means it’s also time for one more thing, filling out your Census.
It costs no money and takes a trifling amount of time, but it helps to determine how well represented your community is in government, how over $400 billion in federal funding gets divided, and how big of a market your community represents to businesses and organizations looking to expand.
Social Compact has assisted cities with programs to correct and challenge undercounts of their populations by conventional metrics. Last year alone Social Compact assisted twelve…
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Social Compact Launches Exciting New Online Tool in Washington DC
Social Compact announced today the launch of its Washington, DC-based ‘CityDNA,’ a new easy-to-use web-based system that will serve as a one-stop-shop for visualizing and analyzing local market data. CityDNA aims to help local governments, investors and community groups understand and respond to the unique market characteristics of their communities.
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NPR’s Morning Edition: Recession Adds To Hurdles Facing U.S. Census
The 2010 U.S. Census is fast approaching and, according to this story from NPR’s Morning Edition, the recession will make it even harder for the government to make an accurate count. The decennial count directly impacts the yearly allocation of more than $200 billion in federal funding to states, cities, and municipalities. Unfortunately, many people affected by foreclosures or job loss are in transitory living arrangements and are harder than ever to track down. Furthermore, Labor Department data show that traditionally harder-to-count minority groups, such as Latinos and African Americans,…
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Social Compact Selects Alyssa Stewart Lee As New Chief Executive Officer
Washington, D.C., May 16, 2011—Social Compact, a national non-profit organization that helps underserved urban areas develop accurate economic data needed to attract investment, announced today that Alyssa Stewart Lee has been selected as the organization’s chief executive officer (CEO).
With the exception of the U.S. Census Bureau, Social Compact is the only organization that conducts original demographic research in major cities across the U.S. Social Compact’s research often identifies Census under-reporting issues and quantifies the purchasing power and stability of urban and micro-markets to support community development and investment. To date,…
Report Finds Detroit is Ready for New Investment
Social Compact and Detroit Economic Growth Corporation’s 2009 DrillDown Report for Detroit will serve as a foundation for comprehensive economic development strategic planning for the City of Detroit through 2012.
(DETROIT, MI, February 23) - In the face of the national recession, many of Detroit’s neighborhoods are continuing to show strong market strength for retail and other economic investment. The Social Compact 2009 DrillDown Report shows that while Detroit experienced an overall population loss, many neighborhoods remained stable or had grown slightly since the 2000 U.S. Census report. In anticipating a Census 2010 undercount, this information has allowed Detroit…
Social Compact Launches Exciting New Online Tool in Washington DC
WASHINGTON, Mar 11, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)—Social Compact announced today the launch of its Washington, DC-based ‘CityDNA,’ a new easy-to-use web-based system that will serve as a one-stop-shop for visualizing and analyzing local market data. CityDNA aims to help local governments, investors and community groups understand and respond to the unique market characteristics of their communities.
CityDNA is made possible through support from the Citi Foundation and marks a giant leap forward in the technical capacity available to stakeholders working toward sustainable community development in the District. “The Citi Foundation’s support of Social Compact’s…
Public-private partnerships created 1,200 jobs, 30 businesses in Columbia Heights, according to SC
More than 1,200 jobs and 30 new business have been created in Columbia Heights since 2002, the result of a public-private partnership that has helped transform a struggling inner-city community into a thriving neighborhood. And an additional 30,000 square feet of retail development is in the pipeline. These figures were reported by Social Compact, a coalition of business leaders from across the country who are promoting successful business investment in lower-income communities for the benefit of current residents.
