Archive for June, 2011
Spotted: Amazing Neighborkids at the SCOPE*10 Event!
Those of you who attended the SCOPE*10 Celebration last week might be wondering: Who were all those great kids greeting people and delivering “newspaper” programs to everyone?
They were some of the “Central-Cocoanut Neighborhood Scavenger Hunters!” The Scavenger Hunters are neighborkids who live in the Central-Cocoanut neighborhood* of Newtown in Sarasota. Since the summer of 2009, [...]
We Still Got It…!
Back in 2000, the U.S. Census reported that Sarasota County was the #1 large county in the United States with regard to older adults. Our county had the highest percentage of residents age 65 and older among large counties. Recently, data on the age distribution of the U.S. population was released by the 2010 Census [...]
Data Byte - FundRace takes off here in Sarasota County
With Mitt Romney coming to town for a fundraising event on June 16th, it might be interesting to see what the political donor landscape is like here in Sarasota County. The Huffington Post has created an interactive mapping tool that makes it possible to see which residents and businesses of our community are contributing to [...]
Community Data 2.0 – Rebooting In Process…
On May 19, people of Sarasota County came together for Community Data 2.0 - A Community-Wide Rebooting. I65 people from a variety of neighborhoods and sectors met to:
Review local community data-related efforts of the past decade
Consider emerging innovations, and
Begin a “rebooting” process to identify qualities of well-being that now matter most in our home community.
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Community Data 2.0 Participant Engagement
Here at SCOPE we are interested in how community engagement flourishes. By “engagement,” we mean becoming connected and inspired to create positive community change. We believe that for enough engagement to be generated, in order to create change around any given issue, our community needs to be paying attention to where inspiration is manifesting. Then we [...]