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What Does Displacement Look Like?: Census 2020 and Latinos in the Mission

by Senior Analyst Ryan Fukumori The U.S. Census Bureau recently released the first batch of data from the 2020 decennial Census, which allows us to look at data on population by race and ethnicity for all of San Francisco, as well as the Mission District specifically. We also combine these new data points with population…

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Critical Needs of Latino Community Members Seeking COVID-19 Services in San Francisco’s Mission District

by Senior Analyst Ryan Fukumori Organizations in the Mission District serve a community that is predominantly Latino, with many non-English speakers and immigrants, including undocumented residents. This community has disproportionately suffered the financial and health-related effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These disparities can be attributed to preexisting structural inequalities, with many Latinos clustered in industries…

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MEDA Data Analysis: Families Earning Less Than $35,000 Annually in San Francisco

by Evaluator Severin Saenz (NOTE: Map is interactive) With the Annual Median Income (AMI) of $87,701 in San Francisco (ACS 2016; 5-Year Estimates), it’s easy to overlook low-wage workers who struggle to make ends meet. The average San Franciscan has a seemingly high AMI and from a cursory perspective it obscures the financial struggles of families earning lower wages.

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Client Surveys Indicate 21 Percent Live in Overcrowded Conditions

Severin Saenz of MEDA’s Evaluation team needed to be creative and strategic when she decided it would be valuable to do a survey of clients’ housing arrangements. What would be the relevant questions that would provide needed insight? What would be culturally relevant to Latino respondents, her target audience. To determine the best questions, Saenz…

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Mission Promise Neighborhood Survey Showcases the Continued Need to Strengthen the Mission’s Latino Community

by Director of Program Evaluation, Learning & Impact Morgan Buras-Finlay The Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN) has released a report, “The Story of the Mission Promise Neighborhood Community: Results and Trends from the 2014 & 2016 MPN Neighborhood Survey,” offering an in-depth analysis of ongoing neighborhood need. Families living in the Mission or with a child going to…

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Mission Promise Neighborhood Data-Sharing Tool Showcased by MEDA in Salesforce Webinar

Data. Information. Facts. No matter how you say it, sharing data can be powerful, but it takes the right opportunity and a team of experts to make that a reality. That opportunity came from the Department of Education three years ago, with the creation and funding of the Mission Promise Neighborhood – a federal initiative…

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Mission Promise Neighborhood Data Sharing Among Partners Now a Reality

“The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” –Arthur C. Nielsen, market researcher and founder of ACNielsen  The need and challenge Michelle Reiss-Top (photo, top right) definitely understands the aforementioned quote about data. MEDA’s technology and data systems manager was tasked with implementing and optimizing Salesforce internally–a Herculean task by itself. Imagine…

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Mission Promise Neighborhood Releases School Climate Survey to Community

As part of the Promise Neighborhood grant, the United States Department of Education (DoE) mandates that all Promise Neighborhood grantees administer an annual school climate survey, at their target middle and high schools, to understand the impact of the initiative on students. Findings from the first school climate survey for the Mission Promise Neighborhood are…

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