Baltimore Data Day 2025

For over a decade and a half, BNIA-JFI’s Baltimore Data Day has brought advocates, agencies, and analysts together to champion a shared goal: using data to transform our city and communities. This goal carries new significance in 2025 as each week brings changes to the federal data ecosystem and the tools we have long championed to measure the health of our neighborhoods. In the wake of these shifts, it falls upon us – Baltimore’s data users, visualizers, leaders, policy makers, and neighborhood change agents to strategize and build linkages that allow us to continue our work.

For the 16th Annual Baltimore Data Day, held July 18th at the University of Baltimore, BNIA-JFI will convene eight topic-driven panels that bring together voices from the city, the state, and the local community to discuss emerging gaps and new opportunities for collaboration. Come prepared to learn about vacancy, digital access, housing stability, and more.

Our goal for the day is to use data as a springboard for building new alliances and data systems to strengthen Baltimore in the wake of diminished federal support and capacity. Each panel will feature a presentation and discussions from representatives from Baltimore City agencies, State agencies, and community organizations. These panels will explore current data needs, gaps, and alternative collection methods. Panelists will also discuss how to continue momentum in the face of losses in funding, building and maintaining community trust, rebuilding capacity, and progress on the horizon.

The day will conclude with facilitated discussions that move the panel discussions from a place of knowledge to one of action and strategy. Expect discussions on storytelling, organizing, open data, and capacity building.

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