The Civic Muscle Index assesses belonging, contribution, leadership, and vitality characteristics for counties across Missouri and the city of St. Louis. These indicators are indicative of communities where residents thrive, economies prosper, and neighborhoods flourish. The tool also features a peer counties report, allowing comparison between the Civic Muscle of like counties.
In 2023, CARES assisted ArtsKC with an asset mapping project. CARES provided data validation and data cleaning services to support the development of an arts-focused community dashboard. The dashboard can be viewed here.
CARES provides the Michigan Public Health Institute and the Michigan Bureau of Community Action and Economic Opportunity with access to data, maps, and reporting tools through a series of mapping and reporting widgets. These data and tools support public health and community action agencies across the state by providing access to reliable needs assessment data.
This report examines racial disparity in Columbia (MO) Police Department traffic stops across age, sex, varying levels of geography, reasons for initiating post-stop searches, post-search outcomes, and factors that predict the likelihood that a stopped driver is Black. Disparity, discrimination, and racial bias in policing have been historically, and continue to be, an important policy issue.
Time’s Up Measure Up is an multi-organization initiative from the Time’s Up foundation to combine quantitative and quantitative data to expose economic and other hardships facing women as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. CARES performed data consultation to identify quantitative datasets to represent the TUMU conceptual framework. CARES then acquired data for 15+ metrics, relying on knowledge of existing secondary sources as well as custom survey data analysis.
The UM Impact Portal highlights the impact of the University of Missouri presence across Missouri. The Impact Report provides both aggregate and county-level university-specific statistics like the number of employees, students, and alumni in an area.