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February 10, 2015

CRC EVENT REMINDER

CRC Book Launch Forum this Friday! You're Invited:

Book Launch Forum: Making Data Matter

A forum promoting the new volume of essays:

"What Counts: Harnessing Data for America's Communities"

Edited by the Federal Reserve Bank San Francisco and the Urban Institute

Date: Friday - February 13, 2015

Time: 9am - 12pm

Place: UC Davis Campus - Student Community Center, Multipurpose Room

Please RSVP

Refreshments will be served

Sponsored by the UC Davis Center for Regional Change, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, UC Davis Institute of Social Sciences and UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies

**The first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of the book!**

Keynote Speaker:

Mr. Carl Anthony - Breakthrough Communities

Speakers and Panelists:

Dr. Jonathan London (Lead Author) - UC Davis Center for Regional Change

Dr. Alex Karner (Lead Author) - Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Dr. Dana Rowangould (Lead Author) - Sustainable Systems Research, LLC

Mr. Lucas Frerichs - City of Davis

Ms. Naomi Cytron - Federal Reserve Bank

Ms. Phoebe Seaton - Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability

Ms. Kristine Cai - Fresno County Council of Governments

Mr. Corey Brown - Resources Legacy Fund

Across multiple fields and sectors, policymakers, funders, and practitioners working to improve low-income communities are increasingly looking to data analysis to inform community initiatives, investment strategies, and policy choices. Data-driven approaches - while promising - raise questions and challenges. There is a sizable gap between our interest in basing decisions on clear "evidence" and our ability to generate it in reliable, accurate, and meaningful ways. Transforming data into actionable information is often not straightforward, and capacity for analysis and application of data-rich information is uneven both within and across sectors. This forum brings together experts across multiple disciplines examining current and forward-looking approaches to tackling these issues.

Click here to download a free digital copy of the book.

About Carl Anthony, Keynote Speaker at CRC Book Launch

We are pleased to announce that Carl Anthony will deliver the keynote address at the CRC's book launch event for What Counts: Harnessing Data for America's Communities. Anthony is an architect, planner and author, as well as co-founder, with Dr. Paloma Pavel, of the Breakthrough Communities Project based in Oakland. Both he and Pavel are members of the CRC's Regional Advisory Committee. Anthony has a long and distinguished history of leadership and activism focusing on racial, urban and environmental justice. Among his many accomplishments, Anthony was Director of the Ford Foundation's Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative and the Regional Equity Demonstration program, and founded/headed the Urban Habitat Program in the San Francisco Bay Area. The CRC is delighted to host this eminent speaker, leader and friend at our upcoming forum.

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