CI-PM Integration
Integrating Community Indicators and Performance Measures
The first webinar in the Integrating Community Indicators and Performance Measures, held on Aug 4, 2010, was titled: Integrating Community Indicators and Performance Measures to Enhance Governance and Citizen Engagement. To see more information about the webinar or to get a copy of the powerpoint presentation or listen to the recording, see our CIC Webinar Archive page. To see the list of upcoming webinars and information on how to register for them, see our CIC Webinars page.
The 2010 Call for Real Stories is closed. See the Real Stories page for more information.
Over the last five years there has been a growing awareness of the need to integrate community indicators and performance measurement efforts at the community level to better assess the position and progress of communities quality of life and to better engage community citizens and other key stakeholders in the development and use of community indicators and performance measures used by governmental and non-profit organizations. The conversation started in 2005 regarding the common problems and issues the community indicators and government performance measurement sectors were trying to address and yet rarely worked together.
As a result, a movement started among CIC members to try to bring these two sectors closer together. At the 2005 CIC Annual Conference, sponsored in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, over 14 different presentations, workshops, and forums addressed the topic. In 2006, a panel of experts on community indicators and government performance measurement was convened by CIC in Arlington, Virginia, on December 6, 2006. The information gathered from the conference and insights from the panel of experts resulted in the report Creating Stronger Linkages between Community Indicator Projects and Government Performance Measurement Efforts, published in 2007. The report identified the benefits to be gained from such linkages as well as four barriers to more effective integration of community indicator and government performance measures and strategies for overcoming those barriers. A common theme of the benefits, barriers and strategies for better integration is the importance of collaboration among community indicator and performance measurement projects as it relates to improving citizen engagement in using information for better community decision-making.
In the fall of 2008, CIC received a two-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue CIC’s work to integrate community indicators and performance measures. The purpose of the grant is to promote, advocate for, and develop a community of practice for community indicators-performance measurement (CI-PM) integration, and for engaging citizens and other key community stakeholders in the process.
- Establishing a national Working Group of community indicators, performance measurement, citizen engagement, and governance experts to help guide the work
- Developing and promoting the use of a descriptive model of CI-PM integration that identifies the key characteristics and evolution of CI-PM integration
- Seeking out and publishing Real Stories of CI-PM integration efforts that were successful and not-so-successful
- Establishing an awards program to recognize exemplars in CI-PM integration
- Educating government officials and citizen groups about the value of community indicators, performance measurement, and their integration
- Promoting and advocating for greater CI-PM integration
