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Changing Diversity in Marion County

Check out SAVI’s new report series, which explores diversity in Central Indiana through the lenses of race and ethnicity, income, and age.The first report, “Changing Diversity in Marion County (1990 – 2010)” is now available on the SAVI website. This...

Want to participate in the 2012 Spirit & Place Festival?

APPLY TODAY! Download the 2012 Application Guidelines from the SPIRIT & PLACE FESTIVAL website! Festival event applications will be due on March 9, 2012. Application...

IUPUI Director Earns Homeland Security Award

The nation’s lead emergency management and preparedness agency has recognized a director at The Polis Center on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus as one of the best at what he does: teaching others how to prepare for, protect against, and recover...

Register for a course

Visit our COURSE CATALOG for a list of upcoming training and events. We offer courses in emergency management, Esri-authorized ArcGIS training, SAVI, and Spirit & Place.

Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning

In 2003, we began working with Indiana counties to develop multi-hazard mitigation plans to meet the requirements of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. Since then, we have produced more than
100 plans.

Creating Sustainable Communities

We partnered with LISC in a cross-site initiative to design a template for community assessment and evaluation, analyze neighborhood change, and measure LISC’s investment impact on neighborhoods.

Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities

This center is a collaboration among IUPUI, Florida State University, and West Virginia University to develop technologies and methods to create a scholarly literature for the new field of spatial humanities.