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Click HereThe University of Virginia Library in collaboration with the UVA Equity Center seeks to work with the community to build the foundation of a collaborative Regional Equity Atlas for the Charlottesville region. Equity Atlases visualize data related to disparities in education, transportation, health, and other areas of social well-being to “illuminate a community’s geography of opportunity” – in partnership with the UVA Equity Center, Albemarle County Office of Equity and Inclusion, and a coalition of leaders throughout the region. The Regional Equity Atlas Prototype can be found here with examples of projects here.

We would love your partnership in adding to it, or to offer support in the development of other synergistic equity-focused, community-driven projects that build the community’s capacity to gather, use, and share data related to regional inequities.

What: Grants of $10,000 to support work that will lead to open, shared information and data related to equity in our communities. Information and data may be qualitative or quantitative, current or historic. Spatial data (data that can be mapped) is of particular interest to the project, but not a requirement for this grant.

Purpose: Grantees are intended to collect, contribute, document, and use community- (or organizationally-) generated data and information resources that will help citizens, organizations, activists, and decision makers promote greater equity in the greater Charlottesville region: the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle, Greene, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Buckingham, Nelson, Augusta and Rockingham Counties.

Data and information might speak to racial, social, economic or environmental inequities, or any dimension that generates unfair differences in the ability of some groups of people to thrive in our communities. Community-based and non-profit organizations or independent researchers in Charlottesville and the surrounding counties are eligible to apply.

More information can be found on our website: Click Here

Questions should be directed to TheEquityCenter@virginia.edu

Project title

Name, Email and Phone Number

How does your project speak to local inequity? (please aim for 400 words max)

What work will you be undertaking? If this is part of an ongoing effort, what part of the work will be supported by these funds? (please aim for 400 words max)

Who will be engaged in the work? What experience do they bring? (please aim for 400 words max)

What additional expertise could we provide to support the work? (please aim for 400 words max)

What outputs (reports, data sets, maps, etc.) do you anticipate being shared publicly? (please aim for 400 words max)

What additional outputs do you anticipate generating that cannot be made public? Are there groups or types of individuals with which these could be shared? (please aim for 400 words max)

Budget - Briefly describe how you plan to spend the money if awarded? (please aim for 400 words max)

Is there anything else that you would like for us to know?