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Who We Are

Our Vision and Mission

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The Measure storyWe bring community together - listening first, then leading with lived experience.
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Educate
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Innovate
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Measure-convened coalition of residents, advocates, and local officials
Coalition
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Listen
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Civic
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Educate
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Innovate
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Our Mission

Measure mobilizes communities to transform lived experience into data, data into power, and power into systemic change.

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New Initiative · AI Literacy

Communities in the Loop™

Measure's flagship civic technology initiative ensures the communities most impacted by AI and emerging technologies have meaningful power in how those systems are designed, deployed, and governed.

  • Interrogators
  • Co-designers
  • Knowledge producers
  • Decision-shapers
Explore the programOur AI principles
Featured article · Fortune

"AI is the civil and human rights issue of our time, and HBCUs must lead the response."

By Chris Hyams & Meme StylesRead on Fortune
Facilitated dialogueCommunity-led researchAI literacy trainingPublic convenings
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The Measure CARE Model - Community wraps around Engage, Plan, Implement, leading to Community, Advocacy, Resilience, Evidence
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Our methodology

The Measure CARE Model

Traditional evaluation overlooks the people most impacted by inequity. CARE flips the script - putting community members at the front of research, design, and decision-making.

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Community
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Advocacy
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Resilience
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The model, step by step

Walk all 12 steps of the CARE Model™.

Unlock each step to see what your community walks away with - then decide if it's time to bring CARE home.

Interactive · CARE Model™ 4.0

Walk the 12 steps your community will walk with us.

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Community Engagement
Phase 02
Community Planning
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Community Implementation
Phase 01 · Community Engagement
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Core values & problem statement

We anchor the work in your community's values and name the problem in your community's language.

What you walk away with

A shared problem statement everyone can stand behind.

Step 1 of 12 · 8% through the model
How We Build Capacity

Capacity Building & Community Engagement

We turn knowledge into collective action. Through leadership development, facilitated dialogue, advocacy training, and community-centered learning experiences, Measure helps communities and leaders strengthen resilience, build relationships, and challenge inequitable systems.

We believe sustainable movements require sustainable leaders.

PROGRAMS INCLUDE
  • 01Community Data Gatherings
  • 02Measure LIT (Micro AI Literacy Trainings)
  • 03Communities In The Loop (AI Literacy Trainings)
  • 04Adultification Bias Training To Protect Black Girls
  • 05We Thrive Leadership Initiative
  • 06Financially Lit & Funding Ready (Six-Week Series)
OUTCOME

Communities and leaders gain the language, tools, relationships, and support needed to mobilize toward systemic change while sustaining themselves and their organizations.

Who We Serve

Our Community

We work with organizations and individuals seeking data-driven strategies.

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Our Collaborators

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Organizations

Nonprofits, public agencies, and funders seeking community-led evidence and evaluation.

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Communities

Residents and leaders turning lived experience into credible data and advocacy.

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Researchers

Practitioners committed to ethical, equitable, and culturally grounded methods.

Why Measure

What Makes Us Effective

Data, dialogue, and decision-making power - built with the communities most impacted.

See our impact
  • Centering the lived experience of those closest to the problem.
  • Trademarked CARE Model™ rooted in 12 steps of community-led practice.
  • A network of trained Data Activists and Communities in the Loop.
  • Decade of evaluation work across health, justice, and education.
  • Public-facing Black Papers that move policy and funding.
  • Ethical, responsible AI governance shaped with - not onto - communities.
What We've Done

Our Recent Projects

Black Papers and reports authored with - not about - the communities at their center.

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Interrogating Public Safety Metrics

Interrogating Public Safety Metrics

A community-led look at how Austin measures safety - and who gets counted.

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The State of Black Lives in Austin

The State of Black Lives in Austin

A landmark Black Paper documenting disparities and pathways to equity in Austin.

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Bridging the Nonprofit Board Representation Gap

Bridging the Nonprofit Board Representation Gap

How Austin nonprofits can build governance that reflects the communities they serve.

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Let's Collaborate

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