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INDIANAIMPACT.ORG COMMUNITY REPORT CARD HOW DOES USING SAVI AFFECT SOCIAL WORK CAREERS AND PRACTICE? POPULATION EDUCATION INCOME HEALTH SEE THE DATA IndianaImpact.org is the winner of the Indiana Geographic Information Council’s Excellence in Geographic Information Systems Award. The SAVI Team at the Polis Center at IUPUI created IndianaImpact.org to provide nonprofits quick access to a community dashboard for each county and United Way service area in Indiana. In one or two clicks, users can access a community dashboard that visualizes 35 community metrics using easyto-interpret graphics. This award-winning tool also allows users to access time trends to see changes within a community over the past few years. 12 “Very useful and user-friendly tool to understand the assets and liabilities that a community has. It’s great to search by both issue and community.” “I feel that it is very useful to quickly gain information and most importantly be able to compare neighborhoods that border each other and have hard quantitative data to utilize. I already see how using this in business and community plans would aid in making educated decisions.” “SAVI will let me know almost any information I want about a community, which will help me prepare before I enter a community.” WATCH THE VIDEO 13