Civic Partners
During the past five years, MPIP has worked with a wide variety of stakeholders to support their work. Below is a listing of a number of the organizations we have worked with and the services we performed.
Atwater Kent Museum
MPIP provided data for use in an interactive exhibit tentatively titled the "Philadelphia Game," that is part of the permanent exhibit, "Experience Philadelphia." High school students engage in role-playing to solve community problems, using data about their communities that MPIP has provided.
CAMConnect
At the request of CAMConnect, MPIP mades presentations at the annual Camden Data Open House each December, at Rutgers/Camden, an event that brings together a group of data organizations with information resources that include Camden.
Campus Philly
We assisted this organization in designing a questionnaire to be used in researching the experiences and future plans of college students studying in the greater Philadelphia area, as part of the effort to retain more college graduates in the region.
Chester Youth Collaborative
MPIP worked with a coalition of youth-serving organizations in the city of Chester to design and administer a survey to measure levels of trust, social capital, and organizational involvement among Chester residents.
Delaware Valley Council for Early Learning and Care
We offered advice and collaboration on mapping the locations of child care and related services.
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
MPIP serves on the advisory committee to DVRPC project, "Tracking Progress Toward 2030," identifying indicators for Destination 2030, the DVRPC Long Range Plan. In the three policy realms featured in DVRPC's project (namely, transportation, land use, and economic development), MPIP has considerable expertise to share.
Delaware River Basin Commission
We met with Carol Collier and Jessica Sanchez to solicit individual feedback on the Environmental Section, and we subsequently furnished data for their use in preparing a grant proposal for funding their work.
Economy League of Greater Philadelphia
We helped ELGP to build the QCEW analytical data set which they used to undertake an evaluation of the companies assisted by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Eastern North Philadelphia Youth Services Coalition and the Center for Youth Development at the United Way of SEPA
Development at the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania
MPIP worked with these coalition partners to collect demographic, health, crime, housing and education data for the various tracts comprising the ENPYSC service area, producing a report that brings attention to community needs.
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
MPIP provided data analysis for Arts, Culture & Economic Prosperity. MPIP serves on the advisory panel to GPCA's Cultural Data Project. We also furnished data and consultation for Arts and Culture in the Metropolis, published by the RAND Corporation.
Jewish Employment and Vocational Service
MPIP provided supervision for a Temple graduate student intern working at JEVS during Spring 2005; she used the MPIP data base to produce an analysis of the relationships between housing, income, and health problems for JEV's welfare-to-work clients.
Mt. Airy USA
MPIP provided consultation to this nonprofit community development corporation about how to conduct opinion surveys to discover how residents of its service area perceive the quality of life in their community. This project is funded by Wachovia Foundation.
Nonprofit Finance Fund
MPIP mapped the locations of child care facilities in the City of Philadelphia for a presentation to the Philadelphia City Council that helped to secure a $1 million allocation in the city budget to support capital investments in child care facilities.
Philadelphia City Council member Michael Nutter
MPIP collected and analyzed data from the Philadelphia School District in response to then Council member Nutter's request that we estimate the difference in the cost to the Philadelphia School District if it were to pay its teachers at the same pay rates earned by suburban school teachers.
Pennsylvania Department of Health
The Fall 2004 household survey included a special section on emergency preparedness, which we designed in conjunction with the Pennsylvania State Department of Health.
Philadelphia Corporation for Aging
We have made presentations at three meetings organized by PCA to provide professionals in elder care from various agencies with information about trends in the aging population.
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
We supplied data to PIDC for their analysis of the growth of nonprofit organizations in the city of Philadelphia, as well as growth in the for-profit sector.
Select Greater Philadelphia
Working with Phil Hopkins, Director of Research for Select Greater Philadelphia, MPIP provided analysis that undergirds a May 2006 report, "The Greater Philadelphia Region: A View from Above."
Ten Thousand Friends of Pennsylvania
As a partner in the Transportation Assets Project, MPIP analyzed the impacts of mass transit use, particularly use of the regional rail system, on community assets like property values, home improvement lending, and tax rates. MPIP presented this analysis to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s Regional Citizen’s Committee.
United Way of Southeastern Delaware County
MPIP prepared maps and data showing the discrepancies in Delaware County between the places with the greatest need for human services, and the places containing the greatest concentrations of human service nonprofit organizations.
Urban Institute, Washington DC
MPIP advises the Institute's Arts and Culture in Community Building Project ("ACIP").
Western Region Montgomery County Collaborative
In June 2005, David Elesh and Josh Freely made a presentation to representatives of 15 different human service organizations at the Penn State Cooperative Extension on Skippack Pike near Collegeville. We remain in touch with Wendy David of United Way and Joe Ronan, the head of Montco Human Services, to provide support for their efforts to coordinate human service planning in Montgomery County.
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