Statistics, Facts, & Figures for Proposals
Compelling proposals often include data and statistics to support the need for the project and/or bolster the case for the proposed activities or research.
Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Institutional Research
OPEIR publishes several documents that may be helpful including the UTC Factbook, a Fact Summary Sheet, Teaching Load Profiles, Degree and Major Summaries, and archived items.
The U.S. Census Bureau website offers useful facts and figures that can strengthen your proposal, including housing, income, educational status, and other demographic data.
Tennessee Department of Education
The Tennessee Department of Education website includes numerous items that may be of interest. The Data Resources section includes the Tennessee School Report Cards, No Child Left Behind Results, Annual Statistical Reports, and other data sources. The Reports & Publications section includes the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, reports on Educator Supply and Demand, and other newsletters and reports that may be helpful.
Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development
The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development maintains The Source, a helpful resource for Tennessee and local labor market data and information.
Tennessee Commission on Children & Youth
The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth (TCCY) is an independent state agency with a primary mission of advocacy for improving the quality of life for Tennessee children and families. This website includes tips on advocacy for children, an inventory of services for children, and events of interest to advocates and other interested Tennesseans. TCCY has released the annual State of the Child report, which includes statistical information about all 95 Tennessee counties and identifies the public structures and programs essential for Tennessee's children to be born healthy and have opportunities for success in school and in life.
Tennessee Educational Needs Index
The Education Needs Index (ENI) is a regional-level study of educational, economic, and population pressures that influence educational policy and planning at local, regional, and state levels. The index introduces an econometric model that assesses conditions and trends for all fifty states and their respective sub-regions and allows peer comparisons across a variety of indicators. The ENI offers a fresh opportunity and innovative approach to better understanding existing data and public policy challenges that each state faces.
Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT
KIDS COUNT is a part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. Through the KIDS COUNT website you can find a national and state-by-state database showing the status of children in the U.S (click here to see Tennessee's statistics). By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure beter futures for all children.
The U.S. Department of Education's website includes a wealth of potentially helpful information including a section on Research and Statistics.
The National Science Foundation offers many grant programs each year. In addition to finding grants on this website, you can also find statistics on education, the federal government, industry, and more. The NSF website also provides science and engineering news and the latest discoveries that NSF has helped to bring about through their funding and research.
The Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics was officially created in 1997 and is the result of a merging between the Office of Managment and Budget and six other Federal agencies. The organization publishes statistics that are indicative of child and family well-being. The report identifies 38 key indicators of a child's well-being and is organized and written to be understood by a wide audience.FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO http://childstats.gov/americaschildren/
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides state-by-state chartbooks on various health issues. One chartbook, for national adult's health, investigates health across social and economic groups – examines the differences in adults’ health based on their levels of education. The second chartbook, for national children's health, examines the health of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds in every state to document how healthy our nation's children are now and how healthy they could be if we as a nation were realizing our full health potential. These chartbooks particularly focus on the connection between education and health outcomes.
http://www.commissiononhealth.org/StateByStateData.aspx
The Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies
The Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies began serving the Chattanooga community as the Metropolitan Council for Community Services in 1962. The Metropolitan Council was the community’s first non-governmental health and human services planning agency. Acting as the planning arm for the local United Way, the Metropolitan Council was instrumental in the development of numerous community based efforts to provide services to children and the poor. The Ochs Center’s core product is the State of Chattanooga Region Report. Funded by local foundations and released for the first time in 2006, the State of Chattanooga Region Report offered a comprehensive look at conditions in Hamilton County in the areas of health, public safety, the local economy, education and community development.
The Office of Grants & Research can also provide advice and assistance on identifying and securing additional facts and figures including demographic information.
