Community Science

06/04/2026

Webinar! Dashboards and KPIs are useful, but they don’t always move fast enough to help leaders make decisions in real time.

Join Michelle Haynes-Baratz, Amber Trout, and Marissa Salazar as they introduce a practical approach to using system signals as a living organizational health dashboard. We’ll talk about how to spot early signs of change across your ecosystem, make sense of what those shifts mean, and use those insights to support more responsive strategy and planning.

This session is designed for nonprofit leaders, intermediaries, funders, evaluators, and strategy teams working through change, uncertainty, and growing demands on their organizations.

Participants will leave with practical tools, reflection prompts, and ideas for bringing system signals into team meetings, learning agendas, and partnership conversations.

Register for the webinar and learn how to use system signals to support stronger, more timely decision-making. Register here: https://bit.ly/4x6Yobo

05/29/2026

Is your community considering Opportunity Zones nomination in 2026?

Join our upcoming webinar:
Building a Winning Opportunity Zones Case: Crafting a Compelling Data Story of Your Potential Opportunity Zones

This webinar is designed specifically for:
• Local government officials
• Economic development professionals
• Redevelopment agencies
• Planning and housing staff

You’ll learn how to:
• Build a strong, evidence-backed Opportunity Zone narrative
• Use local economic and housing data effectively
• Compare your census tract to state and county benchmarks
• Highlight local assets and investment potential
• Avoid common mistakes in OZ census tract nominations

PLUS: We’ll conduct live demonstrations using public data tools from the American Community Survey, and Bureau of Labor Statistics, so you can follow along and learn where to find the data yourself.

Coming June 2, 2026 @ 2PM ET
90-minute Virtual Webinar

Register Here: https://www.hudexchange.info/trainings/courses/building-a-data-informed-opportunity-zone-case-webinar/

HUD’s Distressed Cities Technical Assistance (DCTA) program is sponsoring a webinar on building a compelling and data-informed case for Opportunity Zone (OZ) designation.