Announcement: Redesigned and Expanded Indicators Website

The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties is very excited to announce we have redesigned the Indicators website! It is now much more user friendly and interactive to help the community learn more about how we are doing in areas such as health, economy, education and several others.

Most importantly, we have created a space just for you. We encourage you to visit www.hocindicators.org and create an entry under the nonprofit portal to tell the community what activities or services you provide around a specific topic. We see this as an opportunity to share data and information in order for us all to collaborate more effectively.  

Here are some of the new features:

1.      Larger new pictures from our own community rotating on the home screen

2.      The Nonprofit Portal allows organizations to create an entry to show which indicators they work most closely with and others can comment on entries to share their similar work or ask for help

3.      The “What’s New” links to news releases featuring specific data

4.      “Grants Impact” in the second column, links to The Community Foundation’s new website where we feature grant stories and initiative areas

5.      Within each indicator, when looking at specific indicator charts, the user is able to customize charts by physically clicking on the city or county names they would like to subtract or add from the chart.

1.      For example, take a look at the Demographics topic area

2.      Click on “view all” indicators

3.      Select “Total Population,” the first indicator available for Demographics

4.      You will then see a written analysis of the data for our region, click on the “Charts” tab

5.      The chart will then display the default Oneida cty, Herkimer cty, NYS and US data, but you can add in any of the communities listed below the chart (i.e. Fulton, Montgomery, Rome, Utica, Broome, Niagara)

6.      The user can then save their customized chart (pdf, jpeg, etc) by hitting the download bottom (top left, next to print icon, looks like an arrow pointing down)

1.      To view a complete tutorial guide on the indicators and how the site works, please go to “Using the Site” on the navigation bar above the scrolling pictures and download the user presentation at the bottom of that page.

If you would like to learn more about the indicators site, we would be happy to come to your organization to demonstrate how the indicators site works and allow for questions. If you have specific questions, please feel free to contact Marie Piayai, program officer, mpiayai@foundationhoc.org, 315-735-8212.