If you are a nonprofit executive, you are certainly familiar with the idea of a “strategic plan.” A group of board members get together, sometimes for a day or a weekend, to chart out a plan for the ...

While I was still in school, I worked as a guide on wilderness expeditions. As part of that job, I was a certified Wilderness First Responder. In that training there is a mantra about working from ...

A couple of weeks ago, Scioto Analysis published a cost-benefit analysis of data center policies in Ohio. We found that data ...

This morning, Scioto Analysis, in partnership with The Democracy Collaborative, published The Economic Impact of Cleveland’s Music Industry. The report estimates that Cleveland’s music industry ...

Often, governments, nonprofits, foundations, and associations have budgets to answer important questions but don’t know exactly what kind of study they need to answer them. I use $40,000 as an example ...

In a survey released this morning by Scioto Analysis, 16 of 31 economists agreed that a vehicle-miles-traveled fee would be a more efficient way to fund Ohio's roads than the motor-fuel tax. Earlier ...

Unsurprisingly, the states that would need the most money to end poverty are the states with the largest populations. There is a huge dropoff between Florida and Ohio both in terms of the amount of ...

We live in a post-welfare reform world. In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich worked together to reform welfare in the United States. A large part of the bargain struck ...

Last week, the United States Census Bureau released “Poverty in the United States: 2024,” its most recent annual report on poverty in America. In this report, analysts at the United States Census ...

Back in 2019, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post looking at areas of high poverty in Columbus. This blog post still resonates with a lot of people who understand the history and context of Columbus, ...

This morning, Scioto Analysis published a cost-benefit analysis about the impacts of building wildlife crossings in areas with high amounts of wildlife-vehicle collisions. Using conservative estimates ...