ACYI is grounded in the belief that data about the well-being of youth, families and neighborhoods should be the foundation of all planning. In order to build a better tomorrow, community leaders and citizens must be ready to share and facilitate access to the information they have about our community, understand how to effectively translate data into action, and be prepared to partner in creating solutions.
To ACYI, being data-driven includes not only analyzing population trends – like poverty rates, crime rates and dropout numbers – but also being willing to rigorously evaluate the success of any programs that ACYI funds and implements to impact these population trends.
