Integrating Community Indicators and Performance Measures

CIC Requests Nominations for CI-PM Awards

The Working Group on Integrating Community Indicators and Performance Measures is delighted to invite nominations for the Community Indicators Consortium’s (CIC) Community Indicators-Performance Measures Integration Awards. We are seeking nominations of efforts to integrate community indicator and performance measurement projects (US or international) that best demonstrate the development and application of integrating these two forms of measurement to advance sustainable change in their communities and the power of this integration to drive that change. Applications are due by midnight, Wednesday, August 26, 2009.

See the Award program announcement. For more information.

CIC Launches Working Group

CIC recently received a two-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to promote, advocate for, and develop a community of practice for integrating community indicators and government performance measures, and for engaging citizens and other key community stakeholders in the process. This grant expands CIC's prior work that identified the benefits and barriers to integrating indicators and performance measures.

To achieve the goals of the grant, CIC has formed a Working Group comprised of individuals representing 23 community indicator and performance measurement organizations, professional associations of community leaders, organizations working with communities, indicators and data, and organizations representing associations of communities. Click here for a list of all the partner organizations that are working with the Community Indicators Consortium on the Working Group.

As part of this project we will be publishing ‘Real Stories’ about organizations that are working to integrate community indicators and performance measures. See the Real Stories section of this site for more information. If you would like more information about this project or would like to become involved in the Working Group send an email to CIPM@communityindicators.net.