“The Enterprise Center CDC is a neighborhood-based nonprofit that fosters neighborhood renovation in West Philadelphia. We have been using CHDB for a couple years—mostly in gathering data for our grant proposals and generally using it to learn about needs and opportunities for services and improvement in West Philadelphia. This year we started using CHDB more intensively. We applied for and received a three-year grant from PHMC affiliate Health Promotion Council for the Philadelphia Urban Food and Fitness Alliance. As part of that grant, we’ll be working in three zip codes in West Philadelphia to assist community members with accessing healthier food.

“We also used CHDB to do a lot of research about the health status of people in our target areas of West and Southwest Philadelphia. For example, using CHDB data, we were able to find the rate of people diagnosed with diabetes, the number of children who came from families living below the poverty line and the percentage who were not able to eat the required number of fruits and vegetables each day. CHDB data has really informed our work.”

Imanni Wilkes

Managing Director, Community Empowerment, The Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation