Archive for April, 2011
Community Data 2.0: The Importance of Trust
Preparations are underway for the Thursday, May 19 convening, Community Data 2.0: A Community-Wide Rebooting. With a growing diversity of individuals, organizations, and networks already registered, this is shaping up to become a powerful gathering. Click here to view a list of those registered so far.
Last Friday (April 22), people from a variety of local [...]
Thoughts from Day One of the American Society on Aging Conference
I have been at the American Society on Aging conference for a full day. This is a big deal with more than 5000 attendees. This is evident in the number of people in line at Starbucks in the morning, the number of options one has regarding the sessions and the opportunities to hear [...]
Neighborkids Lead Community-Building
On April 9, 2011, the kids of Central-Cocoanut in Newtown hosted a neighborhood celebration to announce the big news about winning a statewide prize as one of 19 BEST Neighborhoods in Florida. The Herald-Tribune published a piece about it and ABC 7 broadcasted a story as well. News travels fast - not only were fellow neighbors and family members [...]
Great Schools, Involved Parents, Successful Kids…AND Plugged In Communities
After last week’s FCAT testing across the district for students, school performance may be on every kid’s and parent’s mind. It matters to the rest of us too, given that kids’ academic success is linked to many other community indicators, economic and otherwise. One way to find out more about how kids in our community [...]
News Release Issued Today by Central-Cocoanut Neighborhood Scavenger Hunters & SCOPE
For Immediate Release:
Media Contact: Suzanne Dameron, suzanne@thinklime.biz; 941.809.3247
Kids and SCOPE Partner to Win Statewide Contest as BEST Neighborhood in Florida
”Neighborhood scavenger hunting is something we do together as neighbors because it’s fun, and we love it here, and we are explorers and inventors at heart. This is not a formal service program. It is not [...]
Community Data 2.0: A Community-Wide Re-Booting
Since our beginnings in 2001, SCOPE has devoted itself to bringing the community of Sarasota County together around data, through:
Annual community report cards
People Count reports of census data, and
Study group reports on various community challenges.
Through these efforts, Sarasotans have joined together to clarify and reflect upon local, present-day realities. In these ways, our community has [...]
From Talk to Action for Big-Time, Positive Community Change
A data-oriented framework that is gaining popularity in Sarasota and around the world is that of Results-Based Accountability (RBA). This approach is described by its creator, Mark Friedman, as “a disciplined way of thinking and taking action together” as a community.
Given SCOPE’s commitment to community-building through community data, we resonate with this framework in a [...]
Data Byte: Innovations emerging from the Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami
There has been extensive coverage in the media regarding the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan. Recovery from this tragedy has been aided by the use of technology. A system has been created in Japan where people can text message, e-mail, and report on the web; property damage, hazards, evacuations, power outages, or even to [...]
March 2011 - City of Sarasota Election Results
Last week, SRQ Daily published data relating to the recent City of Sarasota elections. Here at SCOPE, we are most interested in within-community patterns, so our GIS mapper Matt Roach has generated maps of the election results. They illustrate both voter turnout and winners by precinct. How do the patterns revealed confirm your expectations? In [...]