TESTIMONIALS
“Organizational performance
measures are metrics used
to assess the quantity and
quality of services provided
to clients – community-level
indicators act as the North
Star, guiding organizations
who seek to get results. SAVI
is a great resource for comprehensive, reliable indicator
data that organizations can
use to stay on course.”
Lisa Osterman, Senior Consultant
COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, INC.
“The Polis Center’s support
was so helpful, and the
SAVI visualizations made
approaching funders much
easier. Funders could see that
we’d utilized a strategic process and used comprehensive
data to support our reasons
for choosing a neighborhood.”
Shanna Martin, Director
MCCOY EIP INITIATIVE
ASK SAVI
WHAT KIND OF DATA SETS
DOES SAVI OFFER RELATED TO
BASIC NEEDS?
SAVI provides more than 10,000
indicators in categories like
demographics; home ownership;
poverty status; and public
safety, and you are able to break
out these indicators by census
tracts, city limits, counties, ZIP
codes, and nearly a dozen other
geographic units. SAVI also
provides the locations of existing
community resources such as
emergency food providers,
utility assistance programs, and
shelters.
HOW CAN SAVI HELP ME
UNCOVER TRENDS IN MY
SERVICE AREA?
Some of our data categories are
available starting in the year
1988 through the present, and
the overwhelming majority
track back to at least 2005
and on through the 1990s. So,
when we talk about helping you
understand what’s trending in
your community, we back it up
by providing unparalleled depth
and context.
HOW ARE OTHER BASIC
NEEDS PROVIDERS USING
SAVI TODAY?
The tool is helping these
organizations either identify
or confirm pockets of extreme
poverty in their service areas.
Others are seeking out food
deserts in order to bring
appropriate resources into
these locations. Our crime data
sets are helping organizations
that respond to domestic
violence deploy resources most
effectively.
“The Great Recession left so
many people hungry and
in need. SAVI managed an
intensely localized project to
help us truly understand the
nature of this growing problem, which was critical to our
successful efforts to organize,
rally and fashion solutions
to meet the need of our most
vulnerable residents.”
Paula Jarrett,
Hancock County Area Director
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA
SAVI reveals how local community trends match up
against state and national performance.
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