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Snapshot Reports

Snapshot Reports are objective, concise analyses of important policy issues within our community. Snapshot reports serve to educate, inform, and encourage civic discourse for our community leaders and the general public. Each report is compiled and written by the staff and student Research Scholars within the Center for Public Affairs, working with an advisory team of subject matter experts.

Institute for Women's Leadership
Women’s Career Development Survey Report

April, 2022
 Principal Investigator and Report Author, Dr. Lora Warner, UW-Green Bay
 Survey Team: Ashley Heath, Dr. Val Chandna, UW-Green Bay

The inaugural survey of working women in Northeastern Wisconsin was conducted by the UW-Green Bay Center for Public Affairs on behalf of the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL). Our data provides information regarding the current career experiences and support received by area women in their professional careers. Having this understanding enables us to dialog with employers regarding the status of female employees, their concerns and their needs. We looked at aspects of women’s work lives such as current experiences, future career plans, satisfaction, workplace challenges, policies and benefits, family support, and workplace support and culture.
Download the Executive Summary Report.
Download the Complete Report. 

COVID-19 Effect on Wisconsin's Nonprofit Sector

Northeast Wisconsin

June, 2020
 By Dr. Lora Warner, UW-Green Bay and Dr. Michael Ford, UW-Oshkosh

This report, which focuses on Northeast Wisconsin, is part of a statewide effort to study the response of nonprofit organizations to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Statewide Reports on Nonprofit Response to Pandemic

This study aims to provide real-time data to government officials, foundations, and other decision-makers about the current socio-economic conditions facing nonprofits, and the need for immediate and long-term support to ensure the ongoing provision of critical services throughout Wisconsin. The hope is that, by understanding the pandemic's effect on the nonprofit sector, we can also better understand the recovery process required afterward.  Dr. Lora Warner and Dr. Kerry Kuenzi, Associate Professors at UW-Green Bay, contributed to this collaborative research. 

Food Insecurity, Barriers, and Possible Solutions: Survey of Brown County At-Risk Households

Food Insecurity, Barriers, and Possible Solutions: Survey of Brown County At-Risk Households (pdf)

This Food Security study was implemented by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Nutrition Education Program in Brown County (WNEP), beginning in 1998, in collaboration with the UW-Green Bay Professional Social Work Program. Its purpose is to monitor food security trends and to provide the community with information from which to make change that benefits the population most at risk for food insecurity. It does this by addressing barriers to food security, strategies currently used to obtain food, suggestions for actions that would most help and by addressing educational interests.

Connecting the Dots: Public Performance and Financial Trends in Brown County and the City of Green Bay

Connecting the Dots: Public Performance and Financial Trends in Brown County and the City of Green Bay (pdf)

The second installment in our series of Policy Snapshot Report was released in November 2014.  The report focusing on government spending and performance as local public entities plan their budgets for the coming year.  It has been designed to provide elected officials, community leaders and citizens with a single document that tracks fiscal and performance data in Green Bay and Brown County during a five-year period. Assistant Professor David Helpap, Public and Environmental Affairs, led this Policy Snapshot research team, along UW-Green Bay senior and CFPA research scholar Renee Christensen.

School Choice Vouchers in Green Bay: Factors to Consider

School Choice Vouchers in Green Bay: Factors to Consider (pdf)

School Choice Vouchers in Green Bay Factors to Consider, Executive Summary (pdf)

The first report in the series CFPA Policy Snapshot: School Choice Vouchers in Green Bay Factors to Consider was released in 2013.

The report looks at the factors community leaders and elected officials might consider in deciding whether to support such an initiative, along with what its impact could be in terms of education policy, funding, outcomes and more.

Using publicly available data, the report will analyze the following topics:

  • What is a school choice voucher program?
  • What can be learned from the choice programs in Milwaukee and Racine?
  • Is the school choice voucher program needed in Green Bay? How well are students (especially low-income students) achieving in the Green Bay Area Public Schools?
  • What local private school opportunities are available in Green Bay, and what are they like? Is there capacity to expand?
  • Does this existing Open Enrollment option provide a viable alternative to the choice program?