Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic City Through Data-Driven Community Engagement
ANNOUNCEMENT
Communities Speak is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the New York City Council!
We look forward to working closely with the Speaker and Councilmembers to reach even more New Yorkers in our next biannual survey. Together, we will ensure that critical resources are more effectively targeted and that all communities can shape their city's policy.
The Communities Speak Fall/Winter 2023 Survey is Now Closed!
Every New Yorker can have a voice in policy conversations. Look out for our Spring/Summer 2024 Survey so that city leaders can understand the unique challenges you and members of your community are facing.
Communities Speak is Expanding
As city officials develop policies for their yearly budgets, plan for long-term needs and prepare for shocks (i.e., pandemics, economic downturns, increase in crime) and economic opportunities, you will need data that accurately reflects the current needs of your residents, especially the most vulnerable populations and communities. Real-time data, at the individual and neighborhood level, enables policymakers and community leaders to identify needs, develop and implement effective and efficient policies, target resources to specific community needs, and evaluate the effectiveness of these policies.
But until now, accessing and analyzing that data has been a significant challenge. That changes this year when Communities Speak will name three cities in the U.S. to join the first Communities Speak City Cohort.
The Project
Communities Speak is a research project approved by Columbia University Institutional Review Board (Protocol #AAAS9690). All survey answers are kept on private, secure servers and no personal information is distributed.