Our Impact
See how we have partnered with community-based organizations below.
LATEST IMPACT STORIES
How SAVI helped the Indianapolis City-County Council forge a new strategy for reducing crime
The Challenge The City of Indianapolis needed new strategies to address rising rates of crime and violence, which have spiked recently ... read more
Polis launches a reinvented, digital version of the innovative Encyclopedia of Indianapolis
As the lead partner of a collaborative effort, the Center created a digital encyclopedia that pulls together the resources of cultural institutions, brings the work into the twenty-first century, and gives it a long-term home. The goal was not to produce an encyclopedia that spent its time in the 19th century. The goal was to think about: What do citizens need to know today to become more effective residents of this place? read more
SAVI helps IU researchers understand COVID-19’s spread
Researchers at the IU School of Medicine needed representative samples of several Indianapolis-area ZIP codes for a study of COVID-19. The Solution SAVI analysts provided demographic analyses of the relevant ZIP codes and created an online dashboard to measure how well volunteer pools mirrored the demographics of those ZIP codes. read more
