Driving Community Transformation: How Fox Valley Data Exchange Powers Strategic Investments
About the Customer
Fox Valley Data Exchange is a regional data-sharing initiative that provides trusted, real-time insights to organizations across three counties in Wisconsin. By centralizing critical community data, it enables nonprofits, healthcare providers, and policymakers to make informed, data-driven decisions that improve local health, housing, and economic outcomes.
Recently, the Fox Valley Data Exchange provided Greater Fox Cities Habitat for Humanity with localized data to identify and prioritize high-need neighborhoods for its "Rock the Block" program — an initiative that revitalizes homes and public spaces to strengthen communities.
The Challenge
Complex Neighborhood Selection: Habitat for Humanity needed a data-driven way to prioritize neighborhoods for revitalization based on real needs rather than anecdotal information.
Limited Resources & Time: The team had limited capacity for manual data collection and analysis, requiring a streamlined solution.
Community-Focused Revitalization: The team needed to prioritize investment in historically underserved neighborhoods while addressing social and economic barriers.
The Solution
By leveraging the Fox Valley Data Exchange, Habitat for Humanity gained instant access to high-quality, localized data, enabling efficient and equitable neighborhood selection, including targeted community insights like:
Housing Cost Burden Data: The Data Exchange was able to identify communities where residents were struggling with housing affordability.
A Social Vulnerability Index: The platform highlighted areas with high socioeconomic hardship to ensure targeted intervention.
Updated Demographic Data: This data ensured revitalization efforts served all populations equitably.
In addition, streamlined data accessibility helped provide census tract-level data, allowing Habitat for Humanity to pinpoint specific neighborhoods in need and enabled quick decision-making through an intuitive interface — no data expertise required.
Metopio’s Impact
Reduced Planning Time: Habitat for Humanity cut data analysis time from hours to minutes, allowing the team to focus on execution rather than data collection.
Smarter Neighborhood Selection: Thanks to real-time data insights, the team prioritized areas where revitalization would have the most impact.
More Efficient Resource Allocation: Metopio helped optimize planning efforts, ensuring that funding and volunteer resources were directed to the highest-need neighborhoods.
Enhanced Community Outcomes: This partnership strengthened the effectiveness of Habitat for Humanity’s "Rock the Block" by ensuring projects were aligned with real community needs.
What FVDE Says About Metopio
The Fox Valley Data Exchange, powered by Metopio, is transforming how nonprofits, public health agencies, and community leaders are using data to drive impact.
By providing trusted, real-time insights, the data exchange enables organizations like Habitat for Humanity to prioritize resources, improve program outcomes, and create lasting community change.
““The Fox Valley Data Exchange is a one-stop shop for our entire tri-county area. Most of the data drills all the way down to the census tract, so we can pinpoint community investment opportunities. Any community member can easily download charts and graphs with one click. It’s free, accessible, and crucial for understanding how our communities are doing.””
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