Momentum, A New Home Online, and Data in the Community's Hands

We're celebrating some big news. Measure has secured a $100K grant from the Tingari-Silverton Foundation and finalized the acquisition of the WeThrive program from Mission Capital — both of which move us meaningfully closer to budget. We've also submitted a $50K grant to HEB; if awarded, we'll be just $50K from break-even.

We've launched a refreshed website at wemeasure.org, built to better reflect the depth of our work and make it easier for partners, communities, and collaborators to engage with us and use our community data. The new site brings our mission to life around the two pillars at the heart of everything we do: Capacity Building — equipping nonprofits, public agencies, and community-based organizations with the data and AI literacy, evaluation skills, and tools to measure what matters — and Community Engagement — centering community voice in research design, data collection, and storytelling.

We also launched a dedicated AI Responsibly page outlining our principles for ethical, transparent, and community-centered use of artificial intelligence. As part of that commitment, we're piloting our newest AI tool inside our Data Gallery — helping visitors quickly find insights across our published reports, see how our work connects to their own mission, and discover the right way to engage us. It's an early step in a much larger journey we're committed to navigating responsibly.

Thanks to your support, Measure is currently providing free evaluation, data, and capacity-building assistance to 13 community organizations across Texas — strengthening communities through youth development, fatherhood engagement, trauma recovery, arts and culture, education, wellness, and economic opportunity.

We're proud to share that Measure's President and Founder, Meme Styles and Chief of Research Dr. Zameshia Williams have been published by the Social Science Research Council's Just Tech program. Their article, "Interrogative Reasoning and the Problem with the Human in the Loop," reflects the kind of thoughtful, equity-driven thinking that guides our approach to data and AI. Congratulations to Meme and Dr. Williams on this well-earned milestone.

Measure joined the Data for Peace Conference, hosted by Uppsala University's Department of Peace and Conflict Research. On Wednesday, June 17, founder Meme Styles took part in the panel "Human-Centered, Technology-Empowered Violence Prevention in Cities," organized by the NYU Center on International Cooperation.