Jack Hoffman of Public Assets Institute shared these observations on Vermont’s changing demographics: Since the early 1990s, when the IRS started tracking migration and income, people moving to Vermont have consistently reported higher average annual incomes than the Vermont residents who were leaving.1 The most recent data for 2010 shows that trend has continued.2 The numbers of people coming and [...]
Following the lead of our colleagues in New Hampshire, we urge you to complete the 2012 Nonprofit Finance Fund nationwide survey that collects data on important financial issues facing organizations in our state and across the country. Deadline: February 15th – Take the 2012 survey today! With your help, we can gain invaluable data about [...]
Thanks to Mary Ellen Mendel of VT 2-1-1 for news of state and local agencies teaming up for the sixth official statewide homeless point in time count on January 26 of 2012. The Vermont Balance of State Continuum of Care (CoC) and The Chittenden County Continuum of Care are again joining efforts for the sixth [...]
This recent Johns Hopkins Study finds nonprofit sector leading in national job growth! The report states “Nonprofits have been playing an unprecedented role during the current recession by responding to increased demands for services and have had to unfairly operate with a lack of access to equity funding, limits on the ability to lobby for government contract business and other negative policy shortfalls.”
On Tuesday, January 17th, Representative Suzi Wizowaty (D-Burlington) and Senator Anthony Pollina (P-Washington Co.) held a press conference to introduce three bills to re-state how lawmakers evaluate Vermont’s economy. Bill H.541/ S.237 calls on the legislature to use the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the tool to evaluate and [...]
Three years after the start of the Great Recession, the gap between Vermont’s wealthiest and everyone else had widened, and thousands of Vermonters had sunk into poverty, according to a new report released by Public Assets Institute today. The governor’s goal of rebuilding the middle class is an important start, but Montpelier must begin to create a state that works for everybody, the report says.
Eddie Gale of The A.D. Henderson Foundation explains why it is important for nonprofits to be accountable for the work they do. In this interview with Common Good Vermont, Gale presents an funders perspective on the vital connection between outcomes and nonprofit performance.
Thanks to Pam Mackenziefor sharing this resource with Common Good Vermont. Produced by the Children’s Defense Fund, The State of America’s Children® 2011 finds children have fallen further behind in many of the leading indicators over the past year as the country slowly climbs out of the recession. The report provides key child data showing [...]
Great news for the data folks! Weave – a web-based data visualization framework now available under an open source license. The Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, led by Professor Georges Grinstein, is internationally recognized for its history of work in data analysis and visualization. Building on earlier [...]
We love reading the Pew Research Center newsletter. This latest report, subtitled Angry Silents, Disengaged Millennials is now available. Here’s an excerpt: Not since 1972 has generation played such a significant role in voter preferences as it has in recent elections. Younger people have voted substantially more Democratic in each election since 2004, while older [...]
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