• Homelessness in Indianapolis: 2020 Marion County Point-in-Time Count 

  Stringham-Marquis, Kelsie; Bow, Brendan; Lucas, Bailee; Purcell, Jacob (Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy at IU, 2020-08)

  In partnership with Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) and other local organizations, CRISP helped to coordinate and conduct the annual PIT count in Marion County. The report documents the number ...
• Substance abuse, mental health, & crime on Indianapolis’ Near Eastside 

  Bowling, Elizabeth; Purcell, Jacob; Lawrence, Roxy; Stringham-Marquis, Kelsie; Merritt, Breanca; Martyn, Kevin (2020-08)

  CRISP partnered with the John Boner Neighborhood Centers to identify core drivers of crime in a study area on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis. The study area has higher incidents of overall, property, and violent crime ...
• Immigration policy & COVID-19 (2020) 

  Lawrence, Roxy; Yang, Elle; Merritt, Breanca (Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy at IU, 2020-07)

  On February 24, 2020, Congress passed the Public Charge Grounds Inadmissibility legislation, also known as the public charge rule. The rule allows the federal government to determine whether a person is likely to become a ...
• Homeownership & home values among Black neighborhoods in Marion County (2018) 

  Merritt, Breanca; Peña, Rachell; Bow, Brendan; Purcell, Jacob; Camacho-Reyes, Karla; Yang, Elle (2020-02)

  A 2018 report from the Brookings Institute found that homes in majority-black neighborhoods in the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson metro area were valued at $18,000 less than those in similar—yet not predominately ...
• Eviction trends in Marion County (2010-2016) 

  Merritt, Breanca; Stringham-Marquis, Kelsie; Camacho-Reyes, Karla; Gibson, Krystal (Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy at IU, 2019-05)

  Indianapolis ranks 14th in eviction rates among large U.S. cities for which data is available. An eviction is when a tenant is removed from a landlord’s property, either through the court system (formal) or outside of the ...
• Black death rates from COVID-19 in Marion County (2020) 

  Merritt, Breanca (Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy at IU, 2020-04)

  COVID-19 has resulted in a disproportionate number of deaths among black, Hispanic/Latinx, and indigenous Americans across the nation. Where data is available for various states and cities, these groups consistently ...
• Bias crimes charges in the United States: bias homicides in the U.S. between 1990 and 2016 

  Beckman, Wyatt; Buran, Samantha (Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy at IU, 2019-03)

  The Indiana General Assembly introduced 10 bills related to bias (or hate) crimes in the 2019 session. Indiana is 1 of 5 states in the U.S. without a bias crimes statute. The 10 bills are similar in that each of them allows ...
• Rental trends in Marion County (2012–2017) 

  Merritt, Breanca; Camacho-Reyes, Karla; Yang, Elle; Stringham-Marquis, Kelsie (Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy at IU, 2019-10)

  The availability of affordable housing is a predictor of homelessness, especially among renters. Increasing the availability and quality of affordable housing—particularly rentals—is a common strategy to prevent housing ...
• Regional techno‐economic and life‐cycle analysis of the pyrolysis‐bioenergy‐biochar platform for carbon‐negative energy 

  Li, Wenqin; Dumortier, Jerome; Dokoohaki, Hamze; Miquez, Fernando E.; Brown, Robert C.; Laird, David; Wright, Mark M. (Wiley, 2019-11)

  This study investigates the sensitivity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the minimum fuel selling price for a 2000 metric ton day−1 integrated pyrolysis‐bioenergy‐biochar platform with respect to the biorefinery ...
• Representation through Lived Experience: Expanding Representative Bureaucracy Theory 

  Merritt, Cullen C.; Farnworth, Morgan D.; Kennedy, Sheila Suess; Abner, Gordon; Wright II, James E.; Merritt, Breanca (Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 2020)

  This study draws on the insights of managers in the behavioral health treatment system to explore the value of persons who bring lived experience to their organizational positions. Within these organizations, persons with ...
• Is “overhead” a tainted word? A survey experiment exploring framing effects of nonprofit overhead on donor decisions 

  Qu, Heng; Levine Daniel, Jamie (SAGE, 2020)

  Nonprofit overhead ratios (i.e. proportion of funds spent on fundraising and/or management) have long been used as a proxy for nonprofit efficiency. Prior studies find that donors negatively respond to charities with higher ...
• Manufacturing USA: Evaluation and Recommendations 

  Guevara, Tom (2019-10)
• Environmental Justice and Green Schools—Assessing Students and Communities’ Access to Green Schools 

  Zhao, Shuang; Zhou, Shan; Noonan, Douglas S. (Wiley, 2019-10)

  Objective We investigate equity in the distribution of green schools, what kind of student populations they serve, and what kinds of communities host them. Methods Leveraging national school enrollment data (2000–2014), ...
• Civic Ignorance and Democratic Accountability 

  Kennedy, Sheila (2019)

  There is growing recognition that Americans’ diminished civic participation and the erosion of democratic norms are linked to low levels of civic literacy, defined as a basic understanding of the structures and values of ...
• State Executive Orders: Nuance in restrictions, revealing suspensions, and decisions to enforce 

  Curley, Cali; Federman, Peter (Wiley, 2020-05-30)

  In the absence of a large-scale federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local elected officials have enacted executive orders that include both restrictions to public liberties as well as the suspension of ...
• Organizational sensegiving: Indicators and nonprofit signaling 

  Levine Daniel, Jamie; Eckerd, Adam (Wiley, 2019)

  Resource acquisition depends upon the agreement between an organization's sense of identity and the perceptions of organizational identity held by resource providers. To smooth the flow of resources and buffer against ...
• A review of the community flood risk management literature in the USA: lessons for improving community resilience to floods 

  Tyler, Jenna; Sadiq, Abdul-Akeem; Noonan, Douglas S. (Springer, 2019)

  This study systematically reviews the diverse body of research on community flood risk management in the USA to identify knowledge gaps and develop innovative and practical lessons to aid flood management decision-makers ...
• Where should we apply biochar? 

  Dokoohaki, Hamze; Miguez, Fernando E.; Dumortier, Jerome (IOP, 2019)

  The heating of biomass under low-oxygen conditions generates three co-products, bio-oil, biogas, and biochar. Bio-oil can be stabilized and used as fuel oil or be further refined for various applications and biogas can be ...
• Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council: A Study of Council Effectiveness 

  Merritt, Cullen C.; Rutherford, Amanda (Indiana University Public Policy Institute, 2020-02-28)

  The purpose of this research is to measure and assess the effectiveness of the Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council. Given that effectiveness may be defined in a number of ways, the research conducted includes ...
• Social Equity and COVID-19: The Case of African Americans 

  Wright, James E.; Merritt, Cullen C. (Public Administration Review, 2020-05-23)

  Emerging statistics demonstrate that COVID-19 disproportionately affects African Americans. The effects of COVID-19 for this population are inextricably linked to areas of systemic oppression and disenfranchisement, which ...

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