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The Ochs Center is the only organization in the Chattanooga region that provides a full array of research and data analysis services for local non-profit organizations.
At the Ochs Center, we collect and analyze data from government agencies or non-profit programs; we conduct research on public policy issues, large and small; we design and analyze public opinion surveys and conduct roundtables and focus groups; we lead detailed program evaluations, using data to assess what’s succeeding and what’s failing; we conduct economic impact analyses to assess how different organizations contribute to the local economy; we conduct budgetary and operational reviews of non-profit and government programs; and we are able to assess community conditions at the neighborhood level.
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The underlined reports in the following list are available for download. Click on the name of the report to download.
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16 County Snapshot (2010)
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211/311: Is There a Case for Consolidation or Collaboration? (June 2010)
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A Case Statement for Local Government Practitioners Network (April 2007)
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Alternative Use Analysis: Beaman Park to Bells Bend Corridor (May 2009)
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An Analysis of the Economic Impact of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the East Kentucky Power Cooperative Region (July 2009)
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An Analysis of the Economic Impacts and Financing of the Proposed Coal-fired Power Plant in Early County (March 2009)
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Assessment of Maytown Center Economic Impact Analysis (July 2008)
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Attitudes on Race in the Chattanooga Region (March 2005)
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Call 311: Durham One Call (January 2010)
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Call 311: Kansas City 3-1-1 Action Center (January 2010)
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Chattanooga CITIZEN (2005)
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Chattanooga Gang Assessment (2012)
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Chattanooga's Declining Population? (May 2007)
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Closing the Gap: Rising Educational Attainment in Hamilton County (October 2006)
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Does Chattanooga Have a Crime Problem? A Presentation for the Hearing on Crime in Chattanooga (October 2008)
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Economic Impact Analysis: Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (October 2008)
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Energy Efficiency as an Alternative Strategy for the Power4Georgians EMCs (March 2010)
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Fraction of the Jobs (March 2011)
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Food Access and Price (December 2009)
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Food Stamp and WIC Use in Hamilton County (August 2009)
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Fiscal Impact of Land Use and Development in Hamilton County (July 2008)
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If You Build It, Will They Come? Reassessing the Economic Impacts of the Northern Beltline Project (June 2012)
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Justice and Health Care: Adding Philosophy to the Debate (January 2012)
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Labor Market Trends and Career Academies (June 2007)
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Metropolitan Tennessee: The Role of Metropolitan Areas as the Economic Engines of the State Economy (January 2010)
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Murder in Midsize Cities (August 2006)
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Putting Hamilton County School Finance into Context (February 2009)
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Chattanooga Region (January 2008)
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Reading in Hamilton County (2003)
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Restoring Prosperity (Published by Brooking in May 2007)
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Restoring Prosperity Case Study: Chattanooga, Tennessee (Published by Brookings in September 2008)
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Rotary Speech (December 2009)
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School Readiness and Early Grade Success (August 2008)
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School Readiness and the 2009-2010 Kindergarten Class in Hamilton County Schools (March 2010)
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Still Separate and Unequal: Demographics and School Finance in Tennessee a Half Century after Brown (May 2009)
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Tenn Care Reform, One Year Later (May 2007)
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Using 311 Data (Published in Government Finance Review in August 2008)
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Washington County Coal Power Plant Memo (December 2009)