Community Counts
Community
About Community Counts
Accurate data is essential to help our community set priorities, track progress, formulate policy, and allocate resources. To help drive change in our area, the Community Foundation has been tracking data and publishing Community Counts since 2008. Data for the Shreveport-Bossier Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is collected and tracked in six categories – Population, Economics, Human Capital, Health, Social Environment, and Physical Environment. For the Community Foundation, this data guides all that we do.
We encourage all to use Community Counts to start and accelerate community discussions, as a roadmap for social capital investment, or as a call to action for philanthropy and volunteerism.
“We are so grateful that the Community Foundation invests in the collection and presentation of data in their annual Community Counts report. Each year, we use this information for grant proposals and to share with our constituents the ‘why’ behind our mission. Information that is particularly significant to understanding the families we serve at The Arc Caddo-Bossier’s Goldman School and Child Development Centers are our MSA’s poverty rate for families with children under 5, and the percent of incoming kindergarteners arriving kindergarten ready in Shreveport-Bossier. We know that the work we do to help ‘build unlimited opportunities’ for people with developmental disabilities and families with children living in poverty has a direct impact on these numbers, and we will continue to strive to improve our position as a region by remaining laser-focused on this mission.”
– Kristen Powers, Executive Director of The Arc Caddo-Bossier
