NNIP Network Update

Kathy Pettit and Leah HendeyNNIP/Urban Team & Executive CommitteeOctober 22, 2015

NNIP Work Plan 2015-17

• Articulate strategic principles for decisionmaking on new and future work

• Plan for near-term activities and staffing

• Review priorities and how we are investing across our goals

• Share upcoming plans with supporters, colleagues and partnership

• Create framework for identifying gaps and cultivating new ideas and support

NNIP Work Plan Components

• Build and strengthen local capacity

– Support current partners

• Provide capacity-building opportunities & materials

• Increase network participation

• Increase partner and network accountability

– Support potential partners

• Inform local and national policy

• Build support for community information field

Build and strengthen local capacity

Provide capacity-building opportunities and materials

• Two partnership meetings

• Pittsburgh pre-meeting on data and technology for managers

• Performance management guide and webinar

• Performance management workgroup

• School discipline webinar

• Help desk guide

Increase network participation

• Engagement between meetings

– Quarterly idea showcases

– Check-ins with NNIPHQ

– #NNIPChat

– Handout on network participation (draft)

• New staff/partners

– Buddy system for meetings

– Next: intro NNIP materials for new staff

Increase partner and network accountability

• Policy for partners in transition

• Coaching for partners in transition

• Redesigned data inventory process & recalibrated SNIP score

• Next:

– Written summary of principles and expectations

– Pilot partner organization participation scorecard

Support potential partners

• Growth strategy

– Explicit principles for growth

– Prioritized level of effort

• Technical assistance for 8 sites and fielded questions from others

• Summary of NNIP finances survey (Nov.)

• Start-up guide (in progress)

Plans for 2016-17 (current partners)

• Continue engagement and capacity building activities (check-ins, meetings etc.)

• Deploy participation scorecard

• Develop data management guide

• Improve website as platform for peer exchange

• Consider a member pledge at application and regular recommitment process

Plans for 2016-17 (potential partners)

• Develop annual outreach plan

• Publish start-up guide

• Continue research and outreach to discover potential sites

Inform local and national policy

Goals

• Directly influence local policy in NNIP cities via cross-site projects

• Share new approaches to using data to improve local policy in all cities

• Use local lessons to suggest implications for national policy

Current cross-site projects

• Integrated data systems (6 partners)

– Funder: Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Civic Tech and Data Collaborative (7 partners)

– Funder: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

• Forward Cities (in 3 NNIP cities)

– Strengthening entrepreneurial support systems

– Funder: Case and Goldman Sachs Foundations

Plans for 2016-17

• Prioritize and develop ideas from partners solicited in 2015

• Cultivate promising candidates

– Neighborhood change in legacy cities

– Health, Housing and Neighborhoods

– Neighborhood investment

• Pilot topical brief(s) with NNIP examples

Build support for community information field

Current Activities

• Civic tech and data framework (draft)

• Stories on NNIP & federal place-based initiatives

– Kansas City, San Antonio, St. Louis, Washington, DC

• Engagement with Strive and Data Quality Campaign

• Engagement with Federal Reserve Banks

Plans for 2016-17

• Prioritize networks for outreach

• Develop materials to explain local information infrastructure and need for investment

• Consider briefs on how NNIP partners improve local capacity

– For local governments, community foundations, etc.

Cross-cutting activities

Ongoing activities

• Diversify and increase funding for network operations and special projects

• Improve strategic communications

– Improve network branding

– Develop updated, more frequent content

– Consider newsletters – both internal and external

– Make better use of the website

Ongoing activities (cont.)

• Improve NNIPHQ operations

– Implement, share performance measures

– Reduce number of systems for NNIPHQ & partners

• Upgraded website backend

• Implementing SalesForce