Project: NCCP PDF Profiles

View a sample: nccp.org

The National Center for Children in Poverty maintains extensive databases of demographic and policy information pertaining to low-income children and their families in all 50-states. One of the ways in which NCCP shares this information with their audiences is through state profiles that present all of the relevant data on a particular subject, such as early childhood or family economic security.

While these profiles are available online, they are also a useful tool for the media, for policymakers, for educators, and for advocates, who frequently want to distribute them in print. But laying out every state's profile by hand (and updating every profile each time the data changes) is prohibitively time-consuming. To solve this problem, I built a system that allows them to use an Access database to collect and store the state-specific data, then an online CMS (using Prince XML software) to automatically generate PDF profiles. They are now able to produce more kinds of profiles, more quickly, than they were ever able to before.