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Data Day is an annual event, hosted by Data You Can Use, which provides an opportunity for leaders from neighborhoods, nonprofits, universities, the public sector, and beyond to better understand what data are available, the implications of data on community revitalization, and how to increase connections between research and practice. This year’s theme is Measures and Movements: Using Data to Spark Change. We hope you can join us!
Wednesday, October 23rd
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When: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Time: 8:30am – 4pm
Where: Italian Community Center – 631 E Chicago St, Milwaukee, WI
Agenda:
8:30am Registration
9:00am Welcome – Mayor and Recognition for Founder
9:15am DYCU Presentation
9:35am Keynote Address
Break
11:30am Ignite Presentations
11:50am Data Dream Finalist Presentations
Lunch
1:00pm Milwaukee Panel: Social Determinants of Health
Break
3:00pm Ignite Presentations
3:20pm Announce Data Dream Winners
3:30pm Closing and Happy Hour
Keynote
“Data Drives the Movement” is the mantra of Jesse Van Tol, President and CEO of The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a network of organizations and individuals dedicated to creating a nation that not only promises but delivers opportunities for all Americans to build wealth and live well. NCRC works with community leaders, policymakers and institutions to advance solutions and build the will to solve America’s persistent racial and socio-economic wealth, income and opportunity divides, and to make a Just Economy a national priority and a local reality.
Van Tol will examine how new data sets can fuel the justice movement. Funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan, one of the world’s largest academic research organizations, have collaborated to create the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Longitudinal Dataset (HLD). The data set opens new doors for investigating the historical effects of redlining and disinvestment through new, geographic alignment across multiple decades of mortgage reporting over forty years by census track. Van Tol will also discuss changes to the Community Reinvestment Act and the new Inflation Reduction Act, and how to create action and drive change.
Keynote Speaker
Jesse Van Tol, President and CEO – National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
Jesse Van Tol is NCRC’s President and CEO. He has been with NCRC since 2006 and has held a variety of leadership positions, eventually becoming chief executive in 2018. His work championing fair and responsible banking has resulted in $580 billion in new investments in low- and moderate-income communities through Community Benefits Agreements with banking institutions. Through his leadership, NCRC has grown today to an organization with assets of $176 million and an annual budget of $35 million.
Jesse is a popular speaker and lecturer, and has testified before Congress, appeared on NPR, Financial Times Films and Bloomberg TV, and been interviewed in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the AP Newswire, Politico, the American Banker and many other news outlets. He has had opinion pieces published by the Washington Post, the New York Times and the American Banker.
He also sits on a variety of advisory boards, including the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Affordable Housing Advisory Councils. He is a member of the consumer advisory councils of Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, TRUIST, Fifth Third, Huntington National Bank, First Horizon, Quicken Loans, Santander, and numerous others. Jesse was also a Senior Fellow with Humanity in Action, an international human rights group, and a communications institute Fellow with Opportunity Agenda.
Jesse received his bachelor’s degree in History and International Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received an executive education certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School as part of NeighborWorks’ Achieving Excellence.
Respondent
Greg Wesley, President and CEO, Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Gregory M. Wesley, JD, became president and CEO of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation in 2024. Prior to this, he served on the Foundation’s Board of Directors and co-chaired the ThriveOn Collaboration, representing the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where he spent eight years as senior VP for strategic alliances and business development.
Wesley, originally from Gary, Indiana, joined Milwaukee’s Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP in 1997, advancing to equity partner before moving to MCW in 2016. He is dedicated to fostering a thriving community through collaboration among business, civic, philanthropic, and public sectors.
He serves on numerous boards, including Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee (Immediate Past Chair), Teach for America Milwaukee (Chair), Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, Greater Milwaukee Committee, Trust for Professional Managers, and others.
Wesley’s honors include Milwaukee Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 (2007) and Hall of Fame (2019), Wisconsin Law Journal Leader in Law (2016), and the African American Chamber of Commerce’s Business Champion Award (2022). He holds a Bachelor of Science from Indiana University-Bloomington and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and his spouse have two children.
Data Dream Finalists
Clean Wisconsin’s mission is to combat climate change and pollution in our air, water, and land, and ensure a healthy future for every Wisconsin community. Our Data Dream is to provide a comprehensive, evidence-based evaluation of the local impact of green infrastructure in Milwaukee’s northwest side, incorporating an analysis of what environmental determinants of health are driving health inequities among the community and in the state of Wisconsin.
At My Way Out, our mission is to empower and enrich the lives of justice-impacted individuals by bringing together community resources, MWO supportive service providers and employers while reducing recidivism, building strong communities, keeping families together, and bringing hope and prosperity to marginalized individuals. Our big data dream is to provide organizations of the Wisconsin Civic Power Table the ability to effectively reach, motivate, and turn out their base to get engaged in issues that matter to them and affect democracy in our state. While we are currently able to do this for a good portion of our partners, we have some critical gaps in our data that, if met, would empower more of our table partners to connect with some of Wisconsin’s most marginalized communities.
At Plastic-Free MKE, our mission is to reduce the harms that unnecessary plastics have on environmental health, public health, and social justice. We center those most harmed by plastics, build a community around plastics alternatives, advocate for producer and polluter accountability, and use collaborative problem-solving to eliminate plastics in the Milwaukee area. Plastic-Free MKE works with local food service businesses to help them reduce the amount of unnecessary plastics they are using and passing along to their customers. Our Data Dream is to have a simple, yet accurate way of tracking how much plastic usage our program prevents, as well as the long-term cost-savings to our businesses and the carbon emissions reduced as a result.
The mission of the Sherman Phoenix is to revitalize and uplift Milwaukee’s community of color through cultural celebration, entrepreneurship support, and wellness resources. There are significant disparities in entrepreneurship opportunities and venture capital funding that disproportionately affect Black and Latinx communities. Sherman Phoenix wishes to employ precise measurement and data collection methods to effectively track the impact of our initiatives and validate the critical role we play in providing essential support to Black and brown small businesses seeking funding and assistance. Our data dream is to identify the key indicators to substantiate our mission and facilitate the continuous improvement of our programs.
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Learn about past Data Days!
2023 - Journey to Justice: Using Data for Systems Change in Milwaukee
Data Day 2023 took place on October 18th at the Italian Community Center, with 300 attendees. The theme was “Journey to Justice: Using Data for System chance in Milwaukee.” Our two keynote speakers were Cashauna Hill and Dr. Tonya Howard Calhoun. Cashauna Hill is the Executive Director of the Redress Movement, and previously served as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center. The Redress Movement is committed to leading a multi-racial movement that empowers communities to take director action to redress racial segregation. Dr. Tonya Howard Calhoun is the Director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) Office of Community Collaboration & Engagement. EDF is a global nonprofit tackling climate change through bold, game-changing solutions which put people at the center.
Data Dreams were awarded to two finalists at the event – Milwaukee Community Land Trust and Milwaukee Food Council. The Milwaukee Community Land Trust’s data dream is to compare the wealth created for families in three different scenarios: rental / fair market / community land trust. Using Milwaukee housing historical data to create a ten year comparison of the different scenarios, they hope to to inform potential homebuyers’ decision-making and the general public’s understanding of the land trust model. The Milwaukee Food Council’s data dream is to create a social network map of the pre-existing programs, policies, organizations, and businesses within the complex food system of Milwaukee to determine if they are meeting public need. Through facilitating dialogue among organizations doing overlapping work, they seek to mitigate the historical and systemic barriers that inhibit individuals from accessing nutritious, healthy food by fostering an organizations of shared resources and collaboration.
