Ian Bingeman and Youth Ottawa are Guided by Data
Read a testimonial from Ian Bingeman, Executive Director of Youth Ottawa as he shares his experience with using Ottawa Insights to make evidence-based decisions.
OCF and Partners Support Systems Approaches to Youth Employment
In 2016, the Ottawa Community Foundation (OCF) chose youth employment as the focus of its New Leaf Community Challenge (NLCC) grants program. This has resulted in over $1.4 million in funding to a wide range of strategic, collaborative initiatives to boost youth employment in Ottawa.
Want to Know Your City? Get to Know Ottawa Insights!
Katie Miller of Impact Hub Ottawa shares her experience using Ottawa Insights for social impact. We live in a world where it’s important to be able to access, analyze and apply data to make the most of our influence in the social impact sector. That’s why the Ottawa Community Foundation recently updated Ottawa Insights, a robust and reliable online source for data that is available to anyone in our community. This is the second in our series of blog posts where members of the community share how they use Ottawa Insights to inform their work.
Counting on Culture: Impacts and Indicators in Ottawa
On November 22, 2018, the Ottawa Culture Research Group presented the first edition of Counting on Culture: Impacts and Indicators in Ottawa. The report includes local data that describes the state of Ottawa’s culture sector in terms of support, presence, participation and impact of arts and culture on Ottawa’s residents.
Paul Steeves of United Way Ottawa on Social Impact Data and Ottawa Insights
In our increasingly data-driven world, the importance of accessing, analyzing and applying quantifiable data to maximize our impact in the community is becoming clearer all the time. As part of our work to provide the community with reliable data through Ottawa Insights, we have recently updated 55 of 111 indicators. This is the first in our series of blog posts where members of the community share how they use Ottawa Insights.
