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Bring relevant community resilience data into a program proposal

For a proposal that needs community context, specify the area, year, and variables. Notis retrieves the estimates and prepares a concise, source-aware summary.

Trigger

Webhook received

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

Action

Get Community Resilience Estimates

Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.

Why this helps

Proposal writing can stall while the team searches for a defensible data point about the community it intends to serve.

  • Connect a proposal question to selected, named variables.
  • Keep geography and year visible in the brief.
  • Get a focused research summary before drafting.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect 2chat and Census Bureau once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a clear name.
  • 3Tell Notis to retrieve Community Resilience Estimates for the proposal's selected variables, geography, and year and summarize the results.
  • 4Choose a webhook trigger and a report channel.
  • 5Test with one real proposal question and review whether the selected measures fit it.

Questions about this workflow

Does the data prove program impact?

No. Community Resilience Estimates provide context for the specified variables and geography. Impact claims require appropriate evaluation evidence.

Who chooses the variables?

Your research or proposal team should select the variables and include them in the instruction or request.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link 2chat to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

2chat triggers

Census bureau actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Get ACS 1-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 1-year american community survey (acs) estimates for a specified geography. use when you need the most recent annual acs data for a given area.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get ACS 5-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 5-year american community survey estimates for a specified year. use when detailed acs data by geography and variables is required.

ActionInstant

Get American Business Survey

Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.

ActionInstant

Get Community Resilience Estimates

Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.

ActionInstant

Get County Business Patterns

Tool to retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year. use when you need county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.

ActionInstant

Get Decennial Census Data

Tool to retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need census variables for a given geography.

ActionInstant

Get Population Estimates

Tool to retrieve population estimates program (pep) data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need population or demographic estimates for specific geographies.

ActionInstant

Get Variable Details

Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year. use when you need the label, concept, data type, attribute codes, and valid-value constraints.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

2chat and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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