KC Healthy Kids
Telling the Story of our Urban Foodshed
KC Healthy Kids, along with partnering organizations Cultivate KC, Mid-America Regional Council, and New Growth, received funding from the USDA Regional Food System Partnerships program to create a plan to connect and strengthen the Kansas City regional foodshed. A significant amount of primary and secondary data was collected in the first year of the project, from sources including multiple surveys, regional focus groups, and federal data sets. KC Healthy Kids needed to hone in on the key insights and share them with project stakeholders in order to move forward with creating actionable strategies for the project.
PorchLight Insights systematically reviewed the data findings to identify and illustrate key themes and takeaways in an Assessment Report, and developed one-pager documents for use in community engagement). We met with the project steering committee to discuss the overall data context, including data availability and quality. For the project culmination, we partnered with KC Healthy Kids to build a digital Action Plan outlining the key findings and resulting strategies for the project.
“PorchLight Insights came in partway through our project to help make sense of all the data we had collected and turn it into something useful and accessible for our team. Kate had great ideas about everything from visualizing certain data points to tracking progress towards our goals.”