The Forsyth Promise
The Forsyth Promise is a community-wide cradle to career education partnership committed to ensuring every child in Forsyth County receives the best education possible and is fully equipped to thrive throughout life. The Forsyth Promise uses data to inform and bring partners together to develop shared community solutions so that every child: succeeds in school, develops social and emotional skills, prepares for the changing world of work, and participates in the community.
Age-Friendly Forsyth
Forsyth Futures serves as the data partner for Age-Friendly Forsyth, a collaborative research process on aging in Forsyth County. The intent of the research is to inform collective planning efforts, ensuring that Forsyth County is a place where people can live their best lives. The 2017 Community Report can be found in our Reports section.
Imagine Forsyth
Forsyth Futures serves as Imagine Forsyth’s data collection and analysis partner. Imagine Forsyth is a resident-directed partnership between the community, business, non-profit, civic, and philanthropic organizations whose programs and initiatives focus on improving outcomes for people in Forsyth County. Our work takes a fresh approach to improving the ways we communicate, collaborate, and align community resources, always with the focus of improving neighborhood-level outcomes around food access, health and wellness, income and employment, and housing.
Forsyth County Poverty Study
This comprehensive study, which took over a year to complete, examines poverty through the lens of local data. The result is a historic, data-driven picture of poverty in Forsyth County, including greater Winston-Salem, NC.
Winston-Salem Poverty Thought Force
Forsyth Futures was contracted by the City of Winston-Salem to serve as facilitator of the newly established Winston-Salem Poverty Thought Force. As facilitator for this unique and important endeavor, Forsyth Futures is committed to providing the diverse membership of the Thought Force with the data and evidence based information and analysis necessary to ensure that the efforts of the Thought Force have a scientific basis. In collaboration with the Office of the Mayor, the Office of the Provost of Wake Forest University, and many other key partners represented on and/or supporting the Thought Force, Forsyth Futures assisted in coordinating and analyzing community input received through the World Café process, the outcomes of which will serve to impartially inform the Thought Force membership in their work.
Understanding Access to Health Care: Forsyth County 2014
This report examined what resources are available to help Forsyth County residents access health care, how those resources are being used, and gaps in services or barriers to care that make it more difficult for residents to access care. The release of this report has resulted in the subsequent convening of a group of community clinic representatives working together to address issues identified by the report and common to all community clinics throughout Forsyth County, such as transportation, access to electronic patient medical records, funding, and logistical support.