The 2009 Community Survey asked residents of greater Grand Rapids about their civic engagement, basic needs, health, discrimination, and transportation. Results will be posted soon. For 2010 the Community Survey will be conducted quarterly. This will increase our sample size, enabling us to better analyze responses for specific groups of people. The next round of questions will be asked in late March or early April. CRI has limited opportunities for partners to fund specific questions regarding their organizations or areas of interest.

For more information please contact John Risley at risleyj@gvsu.edu.

The Kent County Tax Credit Coalition is a collaboration of Heart of West Michigan United Way, Kent County Department of Human Services, Internal Revenue Service and many other partners in the public, private and nonprofit sector committed to helping low income working people in Kent County keep what they have earned and build for their future.

KCTCC users login here

West Michigan Strategic Alliance and partners developed of a set of regional indicators that will offer clear, tangible standards by which to measure the sustainability and quality of life in the West Michigan region. These 15 indicators, based on Elements of Sustainable Quality of Life, are a tool to measure what our region looks like and report on how things are changing. The initial focus of data gathering for this project will be the four counties of Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon and Allegan. We plan to incorporate data from Ionia, Barry and Newaygo counties in the future.

For more information about this project and download copies of the report go to West Michigan Strategic Alliance Regional Indicators website.

In 2002, The Delta Strategy and Heart of West Michigan United Way collaborated to develop shared community indicators. The two organizations facilitated an in-depth process in which over 15 lead organizations and representatives from another 50 organizations participated to identify a set of shared community indicators. Since then the CRI has continued to partner with Delta to provide a yearly update regarding these community indicators.

You can view and download searching our data search tool. Click here to view and download regional and county level data used in these indicators.

The Grand Rapids Juvenile Offense Index Report was developed in partnership with the Office of Children Youth & Families and the Grand Rapids Police Department. It includes an analysis of juvenile offenses in the City of Grand Rapids in 2006 along with individual neighborhood profiles and juvenile offense maps for each of the 32 recognized neighborhood association areas in the city.

Download the full report – includes all neighborhood profiles (13.5 MB)