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Lima News article is featured in the Huffington Post.
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum article on Ohio Student Mobility Research higlights Mansfield City Schools and Crestline Local Schools.
Columbus Dispatch article highlights research on student mobility on Ohio.
In this Columbus Dispatch editorial, Richard M. Daley, former mayor of Chicago and chairman of the Global Cities Initiative, lists opportunites for Columbus to boost its manufacturing sector and take advantage of rapidly growing markets abroad.
WOSU News radio interviews CRP Exeucitve director, Roberta Garber, about recent report, Progress Made. Ground Lost. A comprehensive report on early child care in Franklin County. The study finds there are too few child care options in Franklin County.
Columbus Dispatch article covers recent release of report, Progress Made. Ground Lost. A Comprehensive Report on Early Child Care in Franklin County.
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum article talks about Governor Kasich's new Office of Workforce Transformation, created to oversee and coordinate the state's worker training efforts.
CRP Executive Director, Roberta Garber, and Board Member Dr. Bill LaFayette, owner of Regionomics, discuss workforce development needs and present findings from Benchmarking Central Ohio report to Columbus City Council.
This Columbus Dispatch article talks about new research from Community Research Partners showing student transfers among school districts.
Columbus Dispatch article talks about Ohio's small population growth based on population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Columbus Dispatch editorial on the Benchmarking Central Ohio 2011 report.
ThisWeek article about the Union County Community Needs Assessment report completed by Community Research Partners.
Columbus Dispatch article talks about the Benchmarking Central Ohio 2011 report. Several indicators from the report are discussed, but poverty in Ohio is the highlight of this article.
More Ohioans, including many in the Tuscarawas Valley region, are living in poverty and finding it challenging to escape those conditions. Read this article to learn more about this and a report recently released by The Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies, "The State of Poverty in Ohio: A Path to Recovery." This report was prepared by Community Research Partners in Columbus using census data and other sources.
Columbus Dispatch article highlights Learn4Life Columbus.
Columbus Business First article talks about results of a survey of small businesses conducted by Community Research Partners for the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
Columbus Business First article talks about results of a survey of small businesses conducted by Community Research Partners for the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
Columbus Dispatch article describes the affect hot weather may have on the incidence of crimes. Community Research Partners released a report indicating that for Central Ohio, at least, the worst crime season is over.
Cleveland Plain dealer article about Community Research Partners report, Help Wanted: a Lead State workforce official.
The State of Poverty in Ohio - unveiled four days before Gov. Ted Strickland's official State of the State speech - was released today by the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies. It provides some startling statistics and reveals what many Ohioans know firsthand. Simply put, things have gotten worse. Since 2002, the state's population has increased by 1.2 percent while the number of persons living in poverty has grown by 41.7 percent.
A Columbus casino could turn 22,000 people into "problem or pathological" gamblers who rack up $28 million in social costs each year.
That's the human tally described in a report by Community Research Partners. Area human-service advocates commissioned the report because they say now is the time to prepare for casino-related social ills in Franklin County. They also want Ohio lawmakers to start thinking about how to divide the promised pot of money to help.
The truth about Columbus middle schools is brutal.
The district's first step in a campaign to fix its middle schools is to figure out what's wrong. The district hired Community Research Partners to interview principals and assistant principals, convene focus groups of teachers and conduct surveys to pinpoint the problems. Interviews started last week.
Read the rest of the article to find out more about what Columbus City Schools will be doing.
WOSU Public Radio talks about Community Research Partners' recent Data Byte research on Ohio population migration patterns.
A Columbus Dispatch article highlights Community Research Partners recent Data Byte research of Ohio's population migration patters.
WCPN 90.3FM reports on Community Research Partners Data Byte research of Ohio population migration patterns.
This article in the Akron Beacon Journal discusses the latest census figures on poverty. Community Research Partners Director of Community Data, Jung Kim, weighs in.
A growing percentage of foreclosed houses sold at sheriff's auctions have been in suburban Franklin County school districts. The Columbus dispatch highlights recent CRP Research.
Columbus Dispatch article highlights a few key findings of Creative Columbus: a Picture of the Creative Economy of Central Ohio, released June 12, 2009. The report, developed for the Columbus College of Art & Design by Community Research Partners, takes an in-depth look at central Ohio?s creative services sector to determine its size, characteristics, magnitude, and direct economic value.
Whether it?s a marketing whiz in Westerville or an artist in the Short North, members of the so-called creative class are cogs in a large economic machine.
That?s shown in a new study that pegs the annual economic impact of the region?s creative sector at nearly $4 billion.
On April 28, the Ohio Anti-Poverty Task Force presented its report and detailed recommendations to Governor Strickland. The recommendations, which address economic advancement, foundational stability, children and youth, and transparency, accountability, and leadership, were the products of work groups that involved hundreds of diverse individuals from across the state, including CRP staff. A report prepared by CRP for the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies, The Real Bottom Line: The State of Poverty in Ohio 2008, provided an impetus for establishment of the Task Force.
Download the report here.
Competition among cities for business, jobs and a skilled workforce is heating up. According to the latest benchmarking report released by Community Research Partners, Columbus is holding its own but definitely needs some improvement. Alison Holm reports.
The toll the recession has taken on Central Ohio residents played a key role in results from a report that compares Central Ohio to 15 other U.S. metropolitan areas. Business First article on Benchmarking Central Ohio 2009 report.
While central Ohio remains a force as a distribution center, the area still trails its peers in small-business development, entrepreneurship and high-tech industries, according to an annual study that compares the Columbus area with similar cities. Columbus Dispatch article discusses the Benchmarking Central Ohio 2009 Report.
The just-passed federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will relieve need and help halt the economic hurricane that is devastating Ohio.
With billions of dollars in federal Recovery Act spending coming to Ohio, Policy Matters Ohio and Community Research Partners urged state policymakers to invest in programs that will give struggling low-income families and unemployed workers new opportunities to succeed economically.
The Columbus Dispatch examines CRP's first DataByte, Downtowners of Columbus: Who they are and how they live.
U.S. Census figures on health insurance released yesterday confirm what many experts in Ohio have been saying: Conditions are getting worse for the state's "working poor."
Dispatch article shows preliminary results of the KEY (Keep Engaging Youth) program in Columbus Schools. Community Research Partners is evaluating the program and compiled the six-month report.
The Real Bottom Line: The State of Poverty in Ohio 2008, conducted by CRP for the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies (OACAA) was released on May 28 at a statewide summit, attended by 400 participants, and featuring Governor Ted Strickland and advocates dedicated to solutions that afford low-income Ohioans fuller access to a realistic standard of living.
April 25, 2008
Contact: Lou Venneri 614-294-2322 or LAVenneri@aol.com
Cass Sunstein, author of Nudge to provide keynote presentation and Community Research Partners to unveil new Central Ohio Data Access Tools web portal at future trends conference
The Benchmarking Central Ohio 2008 report compared the City of Columbus to other American metro areas. Community Research Partners Executive Director Roberta Garber, Community Research Partners Community Data Services Director Jung Kim, and Columbus Partnership President Robert Milbourne discuss the report with Fred Anderle and callers.
Dieting for Dollars
Can employers put you on a diet? No, but they can make it more expensive to be fat. New ways companies are monitoring employee health habits and rewarding those who shape up.
Thursday, Apr. 03, 2008
Lured Toward the Right Choice
By Barbara Kiviat
If you want people to use less energy, you could make it very expensive--or you could just let them know how much they use in comparison with their neighbors. When that bit of information was added to electric bills in San Marcos, Calif., heavy users quickly lowered their consumption, even though no one had asked them to. To borrow a term from behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein, the good people of San Marcos had been nudged.
The Columbus Partnership's "Benchmarking Central Ohio" study, now in its second year, can be viewed as a series of annual snapshots of how Columbus compares with 15 other cities on a number of measures of vitality and prosperity.
As a new layer of data is added each year, the picture of where Columbus stands and where it needs to go becomes a bit clearer. Thus, each year's version of the report will be of greater value than the last, and central Ohio planners, policymakers and entrepreneurs should use it to shape strategies for a better future.
The Columbus Partnership on Wednesday released its second annual Benchmarking Central Ohio report, which shows the city exhibits a range of economic and demographic characteristics found in slow- and fast-growing metros.
The Columbus Partnership hired local firm Community Research Partners to measure how Columbus stacks up to 15 of its municipal peers, and to consider how it can emulate the best of the lot.
A year ago, Ohio legislators told the Board of Regents and the Department of Education to create a system of basic academic and technical certificates that could be stacked to count toward a college degree.
Such a program, which will be tested this summer at 12 campuses, would be the first of its kind in the nation.
Abandoned houses and vacant lots are sapping the life from Ohio's urban neighborhoods and costing $64 million a year, according to a report released today that studied the problem in Columbus and seven other cities.
Columbus Dispatch reviews a report by Community Research Partners of Columbus on behalf of ReBuild Ohio, a coalition of government, nonprofit and community organizations.
United Way is releasing its 2007 Racial Disparities Report. The Columbus Dispatch highlights some findings from this report.
Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher today announced that five nonprofit organizations were awarded $1,750,300 to provide approximately 800 households consisting of 2,000 people with intensive, home-based case management for up to six months through the Family Homelessness Prevention Pilot Project.
CRP and Policy Matters Ohio prepared a brief to discuss workforce development initiatives of the Strickland Administration. It presents information on:
CRP's Benchmarking Central Ohio Report recognized by Columbus Dispatch in Saturday editorial. Report described as a starting point for future measurement.
Columbus Dispatch writer, Rita Price, covers Central Ohio Poverty Forum.
Community Research Partners was asked by the Columbus/Franklin County Community Action Task Force to conduct research on poverty trends and social service programs to inform decisions about the design of a new Community Action Agency (CAA) in Franklin County following the closing of CMACAO.
On April 18, 2007, CRP followed up the report by hosting a discussion about poverty in Central Ohio for community stakeholders.
The 2007 benchmarking report compares the Columbus metro area with 15 other communities on 54 indicators that describe the characteristics of the population, economy, and quality of life.
Job market remains a puzzle
Positions go unfilled despite pool of available talent, experts say
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Denise Trowbridge
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
It?s become a real job trying to figure out today?s job market.
Consider these colliding trends: U.S. businesses increasingly say they can?t find the skilled workers they need, while millions of skilled workers say they can?t find a job.
Older singles leading baby boom
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Encarnacion Pyle
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The number of unmarried mothers has reached an all-time high in Franklin County and the state, with four in 10 babies born to single women last year.
Despite decadeslong trends and what conventional wisdom says, teenagers aren?t responsible for the upsurge.
At the successful October 9-10 Investing in Workers Conference hosted by Community Research Partners and KnowledgeWorks Foundation, both gubernatorial candidates pledged to make education and training of the adult workforce a central part of their efforts to improve Ohio?s economy. An op-ed column, authored by CRP Executive Director Roberta Garber and published in The Dispatch on November 3, describes key steps that the next governor can take to make their campaign promises a reality for Ohio?s employers and workers.
Investing in Workers is a follow-up to the well-received November 2004 report of the Ohio Working Poor Families Project, Average Isn't Enough: Advancing Working Families to Create an Outstanding Ohio Economy.
An updated edition of the Community Indicators Database Report, a compilation of key central Ohio conditions and trends in the areas of population, income and employment, housing, education, health, and safety, is available on the Community Indicators Database page
In 2005 CRP achieved its milestone fifth year of growth as a unique nonprofit partnership and an acknowledged source of high-quality community data, research, and evaluation services. On October 11, 2005, CRP held a community celebration that included the unveiling of DataSource: The Franklin County, Ohio, Community Data System, and issued a report to the community.
CRP announces the availability of DataSource: The Franklin County, Ohio, Community Data System. This web-based resource enables users to create customized maps, tables, and reports for a variety of geographic areas in Franklin County. DataSource may be accessed at http://www.datasourcecolumbus.org.
Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation has engaged Community Research Partners to obtain information about the training needs of employers in Franklin County. CRP is collecting data for the analysis from three sources: (1) literature and data review; (2) a survey of more than 3,000 central Ohio employers; and (3) employer focus groups.
The 2004 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Report provides data on applicants and lenders of conventional, government and subprime loans from 1998 to 2002 in the Columbus MSA. The report was sponsored by the Columbus Urban League with support from the city of Columbus and Franklin County, and technical support from Fannie Mae.
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United Way of Central Ohio released CRP research to identify racial disparities in Franklin County, Ohio.
"Average Isn't Enough: Advancing Working Families to Create and Outstanding Ohio Economy," the report of the Ohio Working Poor Families Project, provides a comprehensive picture of the state's low-income working families and state programs and policies that impact them.
The PDF file is large and may take a few minutes to download.
COUNT ON HER! The Status of Women and Girls in Central Ohio , a report commissioned by The Women's Fund of Central Ohio and The Columbus Foundation, makes evident the opportunity to invest in Central Ohio 's women and girls for the benefit of our entire community.
On May 26, 2004, CRP Executive Director Roberta Garber presented the findings of United Way of Central Ohio's Community Assessment 2004 at a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum.
The April 2004 release of the central Ohio Community Indicators Database Report includes updates to about 75 percent of the pages in the 2001 report. CRP has established a process to periodically release updates of the indicators as new data becomes available.
CRP announces new projects.
CRP Winter 2004 Newsletter
The CPS Student Mobility Research Project examined the incidence, impact and causes of student mobility in Columbus Public Schools, and identified strategies for addressing mobility.
CRP has secured funding commitments for development of a web-based data system for Franklin County.
On November 4, CRP released a research report on the role of the City of Columbus in funding human services.
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