Orange Dot Report

Family Self-Sufficiency in the Charlottesville Region

Orange Dot Report 6.0 (2024)

Economic indicators directly impacting families across the greater Charlottesville region

The Orange Dot Report represents the continuation of local progress toward a more fully and equitable thriving region. 

The report provides economic indicators describing the local income deficit—the gap between what families receive as income and what they need to earn to be self-sufficient. Since 2011, the Orange Dot Report has served as a central resource for the community and shared the data needed to develop strategies for creating pathways to self-sufficiency for families in the region.

In 2022, the Equity Center's Equitable Analysis team began a partnership with Network2Work at Piedmont Virginia Community College to complete the regular updates of the Orange Dot Report. See the History of the Network2Work@PVCC program for the full history of the Orange Dot Report.

Report Updates

News

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news | Oct 23, 2024

PVCC celebrates 10 years of success for community employment program

Oct 23, 2024
“Part of the power of this report is really bringing a shared understanding to what our community is experiencing,” Michele Claibourn, the Equity Center’s director of equitable analysis, told the press Monday. “So we can all kind of be looking at the same thing, working towards…
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Equitable Analysis

Equitable Analysis centers community-driven partnership to provide advocates as well as civic-and private-sector leaders with data and metrics, contextualized analysis, interactive maps and data visualizations, and narrative storytelling.