CARES provides data, visualizations, and web hosting services to WINMeasures.org. Supported by the Well-Being in the Nation (WIN) Network, WINMeasures.org provides data on the Well-being of People, Well-being of Places, and Equity. Leading indicators are searchable at the national, state, county, and city level (where available) and encompass a core set of equity-focused social determinants.
CARES provides data analysis and programming support for the ParkScore and ParkServe projects created by the Trust for Public Land. ParkServe is the country’s most comprehensive parks database for over 15,000 urban cities and towns across the country. The ParkScore® index is the national gold-standard comparison of park systems across the 100 most populous cities in the United States.
CARES launched SparkMap in 2019. SparkMap hosts a robust Community Needs Assessment tool, data upload tools, ZIP code level reports, and more. SparkMap is a great subscription service for healthcare consultants, grant writers, community benefit managers, and others working on community needs assessments.
The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), through hospitalfinancies.org, provides access to IRS 990 data for nonprofit hospitals in the United States. CARES maintains hospitalfinances.org and updates the database with IRS 990 data when available.
The Building Regional Resilience Hub was active between 2018 and 2024 and provided counties across the nation with a resilience index and underlying data to support the creation and enactment of community resilience plans.
The Lincoln Home site provides researchers with access to a database of Lincoln Home site photographs.
The U.S. News Healthiest Communities relies on CARES to provide data and data analysis for their annual rankings. The Healthiest Communities rankings measure crucial health-related components of society. The project scores nearly 3,000 counties on 84 indicators across 10 categories that drive overall community health.