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CivMetrics believes in measuring and presenting critical data, information and documents regarding local development, construction and governance. Our data covers selected critical types of community development, construction and programs. CivMetrics also seeks to provide macro context along with the micro details. See our actionable data and information regarding local economics, demographics, and market conditions. This includes data, RFPs, financing documents and other information on housing, labor, business conditions and demographics. Select any of the CivMetrics targeted topics for updated data, developments and directories.
CivMetrics Data, Documents and News
CivMetrics collects critical data, information and documents regarding local development, construction and governance. See our actional data and documents, including RFPs, financing documents and the latest stats on local metrics such as housing, labor, demographics and business conditions. Select a CivMetrics topic below for target data and documents.
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Development & Housing
Local development, housing and construction projects, including large public construction projects.
Economics
Data on employment, inflation, labor markets, local GDP, housing, and other critical measures of local economic and business conditions.
Infrastructure
Large infrastructure, such as airports, transit, ports, stadiums and other large scale projects.
Incentives
Credits and incentives in connection with new local development, expansion or company relocations.
Civic Services
Non-profit and government services, including large private service organizations, cultural institutions, and units of local government.
People & Livability
Demographics and livability information, such as crime, weather, pollution, health, and other quality-of-life measures.
Latest News
In It For The Money? Huge Pay Disparity Between Nonprofit Sectors
A Chronicle of Philanthropy study involving more than 10,000 nonprofit employees from 865 organizations revealed that top-level officers from hospitals and private colleges earns so much more than their colleagues in other sectors. Here is an excerpt from a report...
To Get The Right Data, Ask The Right Questions
Effective learning is the key to effective evaluation say Julia Coffman and Tanya Beer of the Center of Evaluation Innovation based in Washington D.C. The two assert that nonprofits must constantly ask the right questions and fight their own biases in order to employ...
Donors, Nonprofit Leaders Weigh In On Measuring Impact
As more and more donors begin to demand evidence-based reports of the impacts of their donations, nonprofits will have to say goodbye to the anecdote-based chronicles of yesteryear that relied on heartwarming stories but few measurable facts. Salesforce.org’s...
They Don’t Teach This in Business School: Financial Metrics Fail to Measure Nonprofit Impact
The metrics people learn in MBA programs are not the best way to measure the effectiveness of nonprofits, asserts Phil Buchanan, CEO of the Center for Effective Philanthropy. Just because you can gather measurable data does not mean that particular mass of data is...
Latin American Nonprofits Experiment With Social Impact Incentives
Pay-for-impact models are currently being tested in Latin America. Adva Saldinger explains how social impact incentives work in this report published in Devex: A social impact incentive, or SIINC, is a results-based financing mechanism focused on helping unlock impact...
Mobile App Simplifies Paperwork For Nonprofits
Many nonprofits have to wade through a flood of paper work before they get to the real work of helping people. But ignoring paperwork isn't an answer, either; it could have serious consequences like putting a nonprofit’s tax-exempt status at risk. A mobile phone app...
Create A More Agile Procurement Process With These Four Technologies
Procurement officers used to trend conservative in their decision-making. Making a bad decision was to be avoided even if delays ensue. But in today’s business climate, agile procurement is taking over. Consultants like The Hackett Group now call agile procurement...
School Lunch Vendor Hacked Competitor To Prove A Point
The cutthroat competition between two Bay Area school lunch contractors reached a new low when the personal data of hundreds of schoolchildren were stolen in a bid to expose a competitor’s lack of data security. School lunches are a $14 billion a year industry and...
AI Will Allow Procurement Leaders To Make Better Services Sourcing Decisions
Services spending will be the next procurement sector that will see tremendous changes as AI applications are poised to make an impact. Elaine Morris Roberts explains how AI can transform procurement in this report for SpendMatters: In procurement, one significant...
Effects of the 35-Day Government Shutdown Linger for Contractors
The longest government shutdown in US history ended early this year. But the repercussions from the shutdown are still being felt among contractors to the US government. All contractors lost money and some lost optional extensions on their contracts. Other contractors...
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