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5 Community Needs Assessment Best Practices
Jul 8, 2026, 3:40:01 PM
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5 Community Needs Assessment Best Practices
by Sara Delong, Director of Customer Success, mySidewalk on Jul 8, 2026, 3:40:01 PM
Too many community needs assessments end the same way: months of data collection, a polished PDF, and then nothing. The findings sit on a shelf while the community's actual needs keep changing underneath them.
The First Draft Doesn't Have to Be Perfect
by Sara Delong, Director of Customer Success, mySidewalk on Apr 6, 2026, 3:35:38 PM
In 2020, I was on the communications team for the COVID-19 response at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Our data teams were building charts and visualizations on critical COVID data, sometimes hours or just minutes before the Governor's press conferences. The …