How One Nonprofit Uses Kidsdata.org

“There’s absolutely no doubt that kidsdata.org has helped us get several grants and start lots of conversations in the community.”

So says India Swearingen, the evaluation and insight director for United Way of the Bay Area. Her agency is creating a movement to cut poverty in the region, and uses kidsdata.org to bolster grant proposals and to enhance the information in its community library.

Swearingen notes that she frequently uses the narrative context that accompanies every indicator on kidsdata. “I like the text that explains why the data is important—too often, we put out metrics and don’t explain their significance,” she says. While she also uses other data sites, she says that kidsdata is particularly easy to navigate, and it provides data at the county level that other sites may not have.

A recent survey of Kidsdata.org users showed that over one-third of site users are nonprofit service providers. Please help your nonprofit colleagues by sharing your story of how you use kidsdata.org in your work, and check out how other organizations have used data on our Data in Action page. Contact us at [email protected] or post your story on our Facebook page.

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