Key Topics
KEY TOPICS
Statistics and community indicators are a starting point, a launching point for a bigger story. The stories behind the numbers provide important context for our indicators, painting the more complex realities of society.
Our Key Topics can help remind you of these larger narratives and seek new framing or fresh perspective.
Consider this your brain food, nutrition for healthy thought!
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- Achievement Gap
- Arts and Culture
- Banking
- Bill Gates
- Catalyze
- Census
- Common Ground Health
- Communicate
- Community Vitality
- Connect
- Continuous Improvement
- Curate
- Data
- Demographics
- Early Childhood
- Education
- Environmental Justice & Sustainability
- Equity
- Gentrification
- Housing
- Impact
- Inclusion
- Measurement
- PDSA
- Poverty
- Public Safety
- Research Design
- Social Capital
- Transportation
- Upward Mobility
- Voter Participation
- Workforce
- Zoning
Funding POC Arts
Today, July 9th, 2024, Next City and Hester Street published a podcast about the consequences of not funding arts programs, particularly arts programs operated by people of color and in non-white communities. The podcast (included if you scroll down to the end of the short introductory article) is an important conversation - I encourage you to pay attention particular from 10 minutes to 12 minutes and then a conversation about data and metrics around the arts at the 21st minute.
The importance of funding the arts is well-known and recognized here at Rochester Area Community Foundation - see the work RACF does in Arts and Culture here.
Additionally, the Center for an Urban Future published a report about how the arts catalyze economic vitality - find information and the report here.