The CEI provides a wide range of client services, from filling simple pro bono requests for a few pieces of publicly available data, to major research and analysis projects involving proprietary databases.   Current major projects:   Local Initiatives Support Corporation 2005 – Community Indicators Database and Mapping Contract National Institutes of Health 2005 Environmental Factors and Obesity Grant Urban Research Lab Grant Center for the City:  Research Services Development Grant Keep Kansas City Beautiful/Bridging the Gap Litter Indicators Contract Independence:  Housing Conditions Survey Contract Community Development Association of Greater Kansas City Development Project   Grants and Contracts (2004):        KCCDI – Kansas City Community Development Initiative 2004 – Community Indicators Contract National Institutes of Health 2004 Environmental Factors and Obesity Grant Downtown Council:  Downtown Conditions Survey Contract Center for the City:  Research Services Development Contracts Keep Kansas City Beautiful/Bridging the Gap Sugar Creek/Independence:  Housing Conditions Survey Contract City of Kansas City, Kansas:  Housing Conditions Resurvey Contract Research Services Contract for the Housing Task Force for KCMO   Major Presentations (2003 - 2004):   “Evolution of Neighborhoods,” Panel Discussion at the Hands Conference, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2004 “Neighborhood Litter Indicators Methodology,” presented to the National Conference of Keeping America Beautiful, Kansas City, 2003 Numerous presentations to city officials   Main Reports (2001 - 2003):   Independence, Missouri, 2003 Neighborhood Housing Conditions Survey Report, Survey Area 1, December, 2003 Kansas City Missouri Central Business District, Community Improvement District Survey, March 2003 Baseline, Volumes 1 – 5, September, 2003 2001-2002 Neighborhood Housing Conditions Survey for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas – Final Report, March 2003   Grants and Contracts in Development Phase  (2005):   We are exploring development, with The Community Development Association of Greater Kansas City, of a tool that will better portray the activities of and measure the outcomes of Community Development Corporations Resurvey of Housing Conditions in Kansas City Missouri Resurvey of Housing Conditions in Kansan City Kansas   Our three most recent awards (2003 - 2004) are:   Proclamation from the Office of the County Executive of Jackson County, Missouri, recognizing the contributions of CEI, 2004 Spirit of Partnership Award from the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance, 2003 CEI was one of the collaborators on a project that won First Place Nationally for a Kansas City Neighborhood (Ivanhoe) of the Keep America Beautiful Foundation, 2003