AIR, Inc.

Applied Information Resources
Public Policy and Community Information Research

             PROJECTS          

PROJECTS OF 2009

AIR (Applied Information Resources ), a non-profit public policy organization, works with Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage  and its southwest OCHC network to elevate the discussions concerning health care reform that currently take place in Greater Cincinnati. To that end, AIR is contacting diverse religious leaders in this region to enlist their assistance in involving people of faith in an examination of the moral ramifications of health care reform in Ohio and the U.S.. The goal of this project is to have people of faith look at health care through the lens of religious teachings that stress compassion, justice, and caring for one's neighbor.

PROJECTS OF 2008

• Homeless Study-#4, AIR is collaborating with the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless to study the causes and service responses to homeless people in our community.
• Citizen' Voice The purpose of this initiative is to bring together involved citizens for a discussion of their views about citizen participation and how diverse citizens can come together to have a stronger role in the public decision making process.
• Common Cause and Election Reform In continuing its work for Common Cause, Air finds itself broadening its focus from judicial reform to campaign finance reform in general.

PROJECTS OF 2007

• Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan for Legal Aid Society of Columbus(LASC)
• Report on the City of Cincinnati's Funding of Human Services
• Cincinnati Human Relations Commission and AIR, Inc survey of Racially Mixed Neighborhoods.
• Common Cause and Campaign Reform In continuing its work for Common Cause, Air finds itself broadening its focus from judicial reform to campaign finance reform in general.

PROJECTS OF 2006

• Completed the analyses the racial attitudes of African-American and white Cincinnatians which was funded by the Wilder Foundation.

• Conducting an assessment of Legal Aid Services of Greater Cincinnati.

• Evaluators for Lincoln Heights/Lockland Weed and Seed Project.

• Consultants for Roselawn Community Urban ReDevelopment Corporation.

PROJECTS OF 2004-2005              

• Common Cause and Campaign Reform In continuing its work for Common Cause, Air finds itself broadening its focus from judicial reform to campaign finance reform in general.

• Racial Attitudes in Cincinnati. AIR  edited a report that analyses the racial attitudes of African-American and white Cincinnatians.

• AIR staff drafted a report for the Legal Aid Society on the viability of English Woods as a Public Housing Project.

•  Launched a new coalition to advocate for affordable housing in coalition with the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, MARCC (Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati), the Legal Aid Society, the League of Women Voters.

• Conducted a needs assessment for Community Legal Services, a multi-county Legal Aid Service in northern Ohio.

• AIR  completed an assessment with the leaders of St. Mark’s in the West End on whether the Church should  expand its successful pre-school day care program into a school that include kindergarten, and several primary grades.

• Evaluators for Lincoln Heights/Lockland Weed and Seed Project

• Sponsored two public forums with the University of Cincinnati College of Law and the Common Cause Education Fund on Judicial Reform

Previous Projects

2001-2003

• AIR organizes the Fair Elections Coalition and conducts public education activities on Issue 6, the campaign finance reform Amendment to the Cincinnati City Charter

• Strategic Plans- Emmanuel Community Center; Visions; Pendleton Heritage Center

•  Ohio Urban University Program, Housing Network evaluation

• Staff assistance to Citizens for Civic Renewal

• English Woods Study 

  AIR, Inc. Maps Over-the-Rhine Social Service Agencies  

  This project, commissioned by Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Fidelity, Fifth Third, and KnowledgeWorks, includes locating all the social services agencies in Over-the-Rhine and listing the programs and  locations of these agencies.  The goal is to put these programs on a database and  map the locations. Then Service Providers could access this database to get information about an individual agency, or to find out what other similar programs are available, or where the agency is located.  The information could be used in any number of ways to help those interested in the community.

1996-2000

•    AIR helps organize and staff Citizens For Civic Renewal

•   AIR staffs the planning phase of “Every Child Succeeds”

•  AIR prepare the Adams County, Ohio, Safe Schools/Healthy Children application

•   AIR staffs “Dollars and Democracy Project” for Joyce Foundation

• Peaslee Neighborhood Center Child Care Center plan

•   Impact of welfare reform with the Contact Center

•   A Guide To the Proposed Charter Amendment (stronger mayor), the Wilder Foundation

•   Strategic Action Plan for Columbus Legal Aid Society

1991-1995

• A Study of Homelessness in Youngstown for  City of Youngstown

• Ohio Public Defenders Office – An examination of jury selection in Hamilton County Death Penalty cases

• Town Meeting on Children-at-Risk for the Civic Confederation

• Asset Based Community Building with Damon Lynch III and Byron White

• Affordable Housing Report for the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

• AIR works on Bishop Thompson’s Summit On Racism

• AIR assists Civic Forum Series, U.C. College of Law