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First Annual SAVI Users Conference:
Empowering Communities, Connecting Lives
June 10, 2005 |
Updated June 30, 2005
The First Annual SAVI Users Conference was a success! Thank you to all of you who participated and provided feedback throughout the day. There were approximately 100 people in attendance from a wide range of organization types. You can access the presentations given at the conference (keynote address, user presentations, and SAVI presentations) by clicking on the links below. |
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Keynote Address (PDF)
SAVI: A Community Information System (PDF)
SAVI in Use (PDF)
User Presentations:
SAVI in the Classroom
SAVI in Mortgage Lending Analysis (PDF1) (PDF2)
SAVI in the Library
SAVI in Neighborhoods (PDF1) (PDF2)
SAVI: The Vision for the Future (PDF)
User Feedback Session (PDF)
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(PDF) Keynote Speaker: Tom Kingsley
Biography: Tom Kingsley is a senior researcher and research manager in housing, urban policy, and governance issues at the Urban Institute, and is the author of numerous publications in those fields. He served as the Director of the Institute's Center for Public Finance and Housing from 1986 through 1997. He currently directs the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership--an initiative to further the development of advanced data systems for policy analysis and community building in U.S. cities. He also serves as director of projects to develop and use national data files to analyze patterns of neighborhood change in America's cities (for the Rockefeller Foundation), to develop decision support tools to help guide land market strategies in five cities (for Brookings), and to develop content for the Fannie Mae Foundation's Community Data System web site. In the 1990s, Mr. Kingsley was co-director of the Ford Foundation sponsored Urban Opportunity Program, which produced four books on the status of urban policy issues in America and worked with HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros on a series of essays on the future of U.S. cities. He has also directed several other major policy research programs, including: testing the market effects of housing voucher programs (1974-80, the HUD sponsored Housing Assistance Supply Experiment); analyzing the structure and potentials of metropolitan Cleveland's economy (1980-82, for the Cleveland Foundation); preparing a national urban development strategy for Indonesia (1982-85, for the United Nations); and helping the Czech and Slovak Republics design and implement policy reforms in housing and municipal infrastructure (1991-95, for USAID). Mr. Kingsley previously served as Director of the Rand Corporation's Housing and Urban Policy Program, and as Assistant Administrator for the New York City Housing and Development Administration, where he was responsible for the agency's budgeting and policy analysis functions. He has also taught on the faculties of the graduate urban planning programs at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. |
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(PDF) SAVI: A Community Information System for Central Indiana
Presenter: Sharon Kandris, SAVI Manager, The Polis Center at IUPUI
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This session provided an overview of the SAVI Community Information, including partners, data, web tools, and services. The session also previewed new web tools that are in development for release in 2005. |
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(PDF) SAVI in Use: Real Examples
Presenter: Sharon Kandris, SAVI Manager, The Polis Center at IUPUI
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This session featured several organizations in Central Indiana that have used the SAVI system in a variety of applications including: grant applications, health and human services, neighborhoods, government, faith-based organizations, economic development, housing, K-12 education, higher education, research, and medical research. |
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SAVI in the Classroom
Presenters: Jim Bronkema and Jim Larkin
Organization: George Washington Community School
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Students are filled with facts and statistics about state and national issues, which they find distant, and of little relevance to their personal situations. SAVI offers a way of bringing information home, increasing relevance and student interest. Jim Bronkema and Jim Larkin, classroom teachers at George Washington Community School, made a presentation about the use of SAVI in the Classroom. With the help of other teachers at George Washington, Mr. Bronkema developed lesson plans and instructional materials to assist teachers in understanding and getting started using SAVI.
Over the past year, Jim Larkin has been working to help students develop critical thinking skills by using real life data as part of classroom instruction. Students use the SAVI website and database to research and problem solve issues in their west side community.
Both of these teachers discussed the challenges, benefits, and their future plans for using SAVI in the classroom. |
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(PDF1) (PDF2) SAVI in Mortgage Lending Analysis: Ghosts of Mortgage Markets Past, Present...and Future: Using SAVI/GIS to Track Mortgage Lending Patterns
Presenter: Anthony Bridgeman
Organization: Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership
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HMDA data is particularly relevant for GIS users because it provides the census tract for every mortgage application in addition to many other variables. However, there are multiple problems in using HMDA data to understand mortgage lending patterns. The data is not so complete as to allow analysts to explicitly model the lending process. In addition, geographic lending patterns change over time. This combination of factors is difficult to represent using standard report formats. This paper will provides a solution to these problems, using the Indianapolis metropolitan area as an example, by applying small multiples (i.e., thumbnails) presented chronologically over a 12 year period. |
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SAVI in the Library
Presenter: Suzanne Scher
Organization: Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
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This presentation outlined several examples of how SAVI was used as a resource at Indianapolis Marion County Public Library. The presentation demonstrated how the library applied SAVI to community assessments, grant proposals, programming, evaluation, and more using real-life examples. It also described how SAVI has been used along with other information resources. |
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(PDF1) (PDF2) Using SAVI in Neighborhoods to Support the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Approach
Presenters: Guy Hayes and Anne-Marie Predovich
Organization: United Way of Central Indiana and Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership
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When neighborhoods gather to do problem-solving, they often have difficulty visualizing the entire area and are left with what they remember and/or anecdotal evidence. SAVI provides a means to decipher existing data and geographic information. As two (2) organizations that embrace the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) philosophy of neighborhood development, the United Way of Central Indiana (UWCI) and the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center (INRC) continue to recognize SAVI as a powerful tool to visually demonstrate the assets already in place within each neighborhood. Considering the digital divide, computer-based mapping is foreign to many neighborhoods. As such, UWCI and INRC value the increasing importance of SAVI to demonstrate the assets and opportunities that exist within each neighborhood. Guy Hayes, Senior Planner, UWCI, and Anne-Marie Predovich, Executive Director, INRC, discussed opportunities for utilizing the SAVI database to support and encourage civic engagement. |
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(PDF) SAVI: The Vision for the Future, Where are we headed
Presenter: Sharon Kandris, SAVI Manager, The Polis Center at IUPUI
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This session gave users a sense of the future direction of SAVI development over the next 5 years, including technological advancements, new tools, and emerging partnerships. |
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(PDF) User Feedback Session
Presenter: Sharon Kandris, SAVI Manager, The Polis Center at IUPUI
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This interactive session provided users an opportunity to give feedback on the additional information, tools, and resources that SAVI should offer in order to better serve their organization's information and analysis needs. |
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