Oct. 10: Aspen Opportunity Youth Forum Aspen

October 10, 2023 — Associate Director Alex Powers and Program Assistant Tara Shawa led a session at the Aspen Institute’s Opportunity Youth Forum Fall Convening where they presented findings from Ensuring an Equitable Recovery, the most recent of Measure of America’s annual youth disconnection reports. These findings looked at the latest research on youth disconnection, such as the impact of Covid on disconnection.

Sept. 7: Rapides Foundation Symposium

September 7, 2023 — Measure of America Director Kristen Lewis was the keynote speaker at The Rapides Foundation’s symposium on opportunity youth. She presented key findings from our report, Youth Disconnection in The Rapides Foundation Service Area, and shared insight on ways to reduce high rates of disconnection, especially in rural areas.

EVENT: DATA2GOHEALTH.NYC Scavenger Hunt!

Join us in Brooklyn on March 6 for our first-ever scavenger hunt! Click here to register.

Jan. 24: DATA2GOHEALTH.NYC Webinar

January 24, 2019 — Measure of America and the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York present DATA2GOHEALTH.NYC in the webinar “Unlocking Potential: New Health-Related Data for Decision Making & Community Well-Being.” Click here to watch.

Jan. 2: Measure of America at Brooklyn Borough Board Meeting

January 2, 2019 — Measure of America’s Rebecca Gluskin presents findings from A Portrait of NYC at a Brooklyn Borough Board meeting. Click here to watch.

March 15: Opportunity Youth San Diego Webinar

March 15, 2018 — Webinar. Kristen Lewis participated in “New Data on Youth Disconnection: State of Opportunity Youth in San Diego County,” a webinar unveiling the latest numbers on disconnected youth in San Diego calculated by Measure of America. The data is part of a collaboration between the San Diego Workforce Partnership and Measure of America to assess youth disconnection, set goals and track progress in the county. You can watch the recorded webinar and see the slides. For more information on the effort to reduce youth disconnection in San Diego, visit OpportunitySD.org.

March 25: National Association of Workforce Boards Annual Forum 2018

March 25, 2018 — Washington, DC. Measure of America’s Sarah Burd-Sharps will speak at the National Association of Workforce Boards Annual Forum about Measure of America’s collaboration with the San Diego Workforce Partnership to address youth disconnection in San Diego. Click here for more information about the event.

March 19: National Reengagement Plus! Convening

March 19, 2018 — Philadelphia, PA. Co-director Kristen Lewis will speak about Measure of America’s latest disconnected youth research at the Philadelphia Youth Network’s sixth National Reengagement Plus! Convening. The convening is sponsored by the National League of Cities and will focus on strategies to reengage young people disconnected from school and work. Click here for more details on the event, and here to read MoA’s latest disconnected youth report and interact with the data.

March 6: MOA at NYC Open Data Week

March 6, 2018 — New York, NY. Co-director Sarah Burd-Sharps will participate in a panel organized by NYU’s GovLab for NYC’s Open Data Week, along with representatives from the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, Viacom, and the Sunlight Foundation. The “If You Build It, Will They Come? A Case for Demand-Driven Data” panel will discuss the demand for open data. Click here to find out more about the event.

Nov. 29: DATA2GO.NYC Demo at the US Census Bureau

November 29, 2017 — Washington, DC. Measure of America will join other organizations using data to expand opportunity at the US Census Bureau’s Opportunity Project. MOA’s Laura Laderman will demo DATA2GO.NYC and discuss how the tool can help with outreach for Census 2020. Click here to watch live at noon!

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