Social Equity Toolkit
Last year, NWNW contracted Diane L. Odeh as a social equity consultant. Diane attended neighborhood association meetings and formed a taskforce related to promoting social equity within the neighborhoods NWNW represents. This has culminated in the creation of a toolkit aimed at providing capacity to NAs looking to increase social equity in their neighborhoods. This toolkit addresses initial findings that were made through discussions with community members.
Click here to see the D4C Social Equity Toolkit
The Office of Community & Civic Life and PSU’s Population Research Center’s Interactive Mapping Tool
The interactive mapping tool lets users study Portland neighborhood-level data.
Most data, such as the U.S. Census, is aggregated by Census block, but these blocks do not match neighborhood boundaries. This new mapping tool provides data related to each Portland neighborhood, uncovering important information about our communities. The City and community partners can use these tools to better understand the issues facing Portlanders. How many children live in the neighborhood? How many people are experiencing food insecurity?
Users can even combine data groups using the CrossTab Index. Does a neighborhood with many children also have many people experiencing food insecurity?
This new mapping tool will help government and community organizations improve outreach and services to be more inclusive and equitable when making decisions about communications, program priorities, funding, and more.
The data comes from the U.S. Census, the American Community Survey, and other reliable sources and shows demographic information for Portland’s 94 neighborhoods. This mapping tool also provides data comparisons to show how our city and our neighborhoods have changed since 2010.
The companion piece to the mapping tool is the Neighborhood Data Profiles that show the breakdown of many data types for each of Portland’s 94 neighborhoods and the four new Voting Districts. The finalized versions of these profiles are now available.