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How Can DataContours Help You Complete Your Needs Assessment?

Learn how DataContours can help you complete a great needs assessment.

Time Saving Tools and Unique Data Points

DataContours offers up-to-date unique data points all in one place.

Keeping Up With COVID-19 Response Efforts: 7 Things We've Learned This Year

After nearly a year of responding to COVID-19, here's what we've learned so far.

Why Your Needs Assessment Should Dig Deeper

Needs assessments should make data relevant to decision makers. Here are some of the components you should include in your needs assessment and why they matter.

Four Questions Your Needs Assessment Should Answer

Here are four questions your needs assessment should answer.

Four Benefits of Leveraging the Community Impact Dashboard

What are the COVID-19 impacts in your community?

Will Things Get Worse Before They Get Better? What the COVID-19 Data Are Telling Us

New Community Impact Reports

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Are You Completing a CHNA This Year?

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Live Discussions on COVID: Recap

Access Recordings of All the Live Discussions We've Hosted in the Last Several Months

Get Comfortable With Standing On Shifting Sands

In order to respond to rapidly changing conditions, we need to let go of perfectionism and embrace estimation, instead.

Facing COVID Realities Without Rose-Colored Glasses

When it comes to a crisis like COVID-19, being overly optimistic leads to bad policy decisions.

True Recovery Is Impossible Without a Focus On Equity

COVID-19 has made inequalities in the US glaringly obvious.

Planning for Fall: Why Local Data Is Crucial

Local data is key to anticipating and responding to community needs.

An Unprecedented Disaster Requires An Unprecedented Response

Here's a look at what we need to do differently to best respond to this crisis.

Planning COVID Response and Recovery Efforts in Your Community?

Here's a great new resource for communities, Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America.

A Local Approach Is Essential For Reopening Schools

As we head into fall, decisions must be made about how and when to open schools. Access to community-level data is key to making those decisions.

COVID Short and Long-Term Impacts: Health and Healthcare Systems

Short and long-term impacts are being felt on every level.

COVID Impacts on Women and Work

COVID is disproportionately affecting women and their work. On top of existing pay inequalities, women are now more likely to be out of work and face childcare/health/housing/transportation barriers.

Addressing the Equity Impacts of COVID-19

A high-level look at addressing equity impacts as communities plan their recovery efforts.

Our New COVID Data Widgets

Easily include our COVID data and visualizations directly in your website.

What Are the Emerging Equity Impacts of COVID-19?

There is a separate crisis slowly unfolding that has the potential to be far more devastating. Here's what the data says.

Does The 80/20 Rule Apply To COVID-19?

Early studies suggest 20% of the population may be causing 80% of COVID spread.

When Is the Time Right to Reopen?

As we search for a way forward, it may be helpful to revisit the government's official guidelines for reopening amid the COVID crisis.

Is Air Conditioning Spreading COVID-19?

Can air conditioner's spread COVID-19? Here's what we know so far.

Announcing our new COVID Regional Forecasts

As COVID outbreaks spread across the country, it is more important than ever to see the big picture.

Three Covid-19 Communication Tips for Public Officials

Here are three tips to help public officials communicate COVID-19 data effectively.

Comms Strategies for COVID Outbreaks

We recently completed a webinar outlining specific comms strategies for new COVID outbreaks.