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- Adams County Community Indicators
- Alliance for Building Community
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationAdams County, IL
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- The Alliance for Building Community (ABC) is a partnership of numerous organizations and individuals located in Adams County, IL. The ABC helps to provide community organizations and organizers with research and data on particular issues that arise within Adams County. While mainly acting as a conduit for streamlined and methodically measured information, the ABC also provides the tools and training that members of the county may need to tackle their “action areas.”
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Environment, Health, Land Use, Public Safety, Social
- Arizona Indicators
- Arizona Community Foundation
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project LocationState of Arizona
- Geographic ScopeCounty, Metropolitan, State/Province, National
- Although it only began a few years ago, Arizona Indicators is a centralized data resource that provides extensive and accessible indicator data. Their website is separated into 11 different areas of analysis. Data is presented at the state, metropolitan, and county levels, through a series of detailed visualizations (graphs, charts, and interactive maps). Arizona’s indicator data is also ranked on a national level. The organization also publishes numerous reports that focus on particularly relevant areas of sustainability within the communities. Indicator information is juxtaposed against current policy decisions, providing context in regards to how Arizona’s pressing issues are being dealt with.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Poverty, Public Safety, Recreation, Social, Transportation
- Austin Mayor's Mental Health Task Force Monitoring Committee
- Austin Mayor's Mental Health Task Force Monitoring Committee
- Type of Organization:Government - Local
- Project LocationAustin, TX
- Geographic ScopeCounty, Multi-County
- Austin Major’s Mental Health Task Force Monitoring Committee (MMHTFMC) was created in response to concern over citizens stricken with severe mental illness in the Austin and Travis Counties. In order to monitor the trends, and to implement changes in social structures that would best benefit those in dire need of proper mental health care, the Task Force created thirty-nine criteria for a mentally healthy community. The Committee is made up of experts in the following “focus areas”: Schools and Youth, Criminal Justice, Housing/Access, and Community Awareness and Faith Based Activities.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Education, Housing, Health, Population, Poverty, Public Safety, Social
- Australian Unity Wellbeing Index
- Australian Unity
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project LocationAustralia
- Geographic ScopeNational
- A project of Australian Unity, in partnership with the Australian Centre on Quality of Life at Deakin University, this website provides a database of multiple survey results taken by Australian citizens. The surveys attempt to assess the subjective feeling of “Well-being,” which is defined as “a more stable state of being well, feeling satisfied, and contented.” In addition to many other factors, the surveys interrogate the participants on how they feel about their community’s social, economic, and environmental conditions.
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- Issue Areas: Economy, Employment, Environment, Governance, Health, Social
- Boston Indicators Project
- The Boston Foundation, Boston Indicators Project
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project LocationGreater Boston region, MA
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality, Metro Area, County
- The Boston Foundation coordinates the Boston Indicators Project, in partnership with the City of Boston and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. The project tracks indicators in ten sectors: Civic Vitality, Cultural Life and the Arts, the Economy, Housing, Education, Health, Public Safety, the Environment, Transportation, and Technology. The project has recently released a report in 2009 summarizing Boston indicators, entitled “A Great Reckoning: Healing a Growing Divide.”
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Water, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Poverty, Public Safety, Recreation, Social, Transportation
- Broward County Children's Strategic Plan
- Children's Services Council of Broward County
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationBroward County, FL
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- The Children’s Strategic Plan of Broward County, FL, attempts to coordinate the numerous and sometimes overlapping planning initiatives taken in Broward County to improve the lives of children. They provide a framework in which to best fund and tackle the issues that plague the county, and set out clear and measurable goals of remediation. The Plan mainly focuses on issues of child abuse and neglect, juvenile delinquency, health, safety, school, and employment.
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- Issue Areas: Education, Employment, Health, Public Safety, Other
- Canadian Composite Learning Index
- Canadian Council on Learning
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - National
- Project LocationCanada
- Geographic ScopeNational
- A product of the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), the Composite Learning Index (CLI) is Canada's annual measure of progress in lifelong learning. It is based on a combination of statistical indicators that reflect the many ways Canadians learn, whether in school, in the home, at work or within the community. The only index of its kind in the world, the CLI is an unprecedented measurement tool that expresses how learning in all aspects of life is critical to the success of individuals, communities and the country as a whole. Until CCL launched the CLI in 2006 there was no way of measuring how Canadians were performing across the full spectrum of learning. To reflect this broad perspective, the CLI uses a wide range of learning indicators to generate numeric scores for more than 4,500 communities across Canada. A high CLI score means that a particular city, town or rural community possesses the kinds of learning conditions that foster social and economic well-being.
- Contact Information:
Canadian Council on Learning
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Education, Governance, Recreation, Social, Other
- Childrens Alliance of NH Kids Count
- The national organization is The Annie E. Casey Foundation; however, in New Hampshire, it is the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire.
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - State, Regional
- Project LocationConcor, NH
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality, State/Province
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation funds a nationwide network of state-level KIDS COUNT projects that provide a more detailed, community-by-community picture of the condition of children. The KIDS COUNT Network improves programs and policies for children and families by collecting and reporting credible data and promoting the use of data-based advocacy and communications strategies. The Children's Alliance of New Hampshire is the State grantee for New Hampshire.
- Contact Information:
Children's Alliance of NH
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Housing, Health, Population
- City of Surrey Sustainability Indicators & Targets
- City of Surrey - Office of the City Manager - Sustainability Office
- Type of Organization:Government - Local
- Project LocationSurrey, BC
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality
- The City of Surrey is currently developing sustainability indicators to help measure progress on becoming a more sustainable City. The indicators and targets are a critical task from the Surrey Sustainability Charter, and will help operationalize and monitor the Charter's vision, goals and actions. To help develop the indicators and targets, the City has brought together a community Task Force representing a variety of interests. A draft list of indicators has been brought to City Council for information. It is expected that a final list will be brought for approval in Fall 2010, with initial reporting on indicator results in 2011.
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City of Surrey
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Public Safety, Recreation, Social, Other, Transportation
- City of Vancouver, WA Strategic Indicators
- Performance Analyst, City of Vancouver, WA
- Type of Organization:Government - Local
- Project LocationVancouver, WA
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality
- "Community indicators developed jointly by community members and city employees to represent level of success in each of the six strrategic Commitments identified in the Strategic Plan. A total of eight indicators combine to provide an overall status for each commitment. Indicators were developed through both live and ""virtual"" (email) participation by the community. All indicators were chosen by the community, not staff. Indicators are refreshed usually annually or biannually depending on what they represent. They are reported annually to Council in a televised session (or sessions). Indicators are displayed on the web with""traffic light"" indicators that use no numbers at the highest two levels, but they can be drilled down to the numbers behind the colors and full data is displayed."
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City of Vancouver, WA
- Issue Areas: Economy, Employment, Governance, Land Use, Public Safety, Recreation, Other, Transportation
- Community Dashboard: Austin & Travis County
- Community Action Network
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationAustin, Texas
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality, Metro Area, County
- "Community Dashboard 2010 provides an overview of the social health and well-being of Austin and Travis County. By tracking the indicators in this report we identify areas where collective attention and action are needed. The Community Dashboard will be updated anually by the Community Action Network. The CAN Partners represent many of the agencies and organizations in Austin and Travis County that provide resources to enhance the social, health, educational and economic well-being of Central Texas. The CAN Board of Directors is comprised of elected board members and executive leaders of the 17 CAN Partner organizations. The CAN partners understand that making significant improvements requires first knowing where we stand as a community and second agreeing on what we want to do together to improve it."
- Contact Information:
Community Action Network
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Public Safety, Social, Transportation
- Composite Learning index
- Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - National
- Project LocationCanada
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality, Metro Area, State/Province, National
- "The Composite Learning Index (CLI) is Canada's annual measure of progress in lifelong learning. It is based on a combination of statistical indicators that reflect the many ways Canadians learn, whether in school, in the home, at work or within the community. To reflect this broad perspective, the CLI uses a wide range of learning indicators to generate numeric scores for more than 4,500 communities across Canada. A high CLI score means that a particular city, town or rural community possesses the kinds of learning conditions that foster social and economic well-being. A low CLI score means that a community is under-performing in certain aspects that are key to lifelong learning. With five years of data, the CLI is an objective and reliable measurement tool that can help communities make the best possible decisions about learning -- decisions that will strengthen social ties, bolster the economy and hopefully improve people's lives."
- Contact Information:
Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Governance, Social, Other
- CT Health Equity Index
- CT Association of Directors of Health Inc
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project LocationState of Connecticut
- Geographic ScopeMulti-County, State/Province
- In order to ameliorate gaps within Connecticut’s system of health care, the Connecticut Association of Directors of Health established the Health Equity Alliance (HEA). In order to better understand the conditions that led to health inequities, the HEA established a Health Equity Index.The index relies on a series of indicators within nine social determinants. The indicators within those determinants are juxtaposed against health data, in order to show the interrelated set of circumstances that led to poor health.
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- Issue Areas: Governance, Health, Social
- Cultural Vitality Indicators
- The Urban Institute
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project Location?
- Geographic ScopeMetropolitan, National
- The Urban Institute’s Arts and Culture Indicators in Communities Project (ACIP) attempts the difficult and vanguard task of statistically representing a community’s “Cultural Vitality,” defined as “a community’s evidence of creating, disseminating, validating, and supporting arts and culture as a dimension of everyday life.” Those supporting the project feel that the arts and creative expression do not receive proper representation within policy-making discussions. The index serves as a resource to give voice to that crucial aspect of a community’s quality of life.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture
- Environmental Sustainability Index
- Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project LocationGlobal
- Geographic ScopeGlobal
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- Issue Areas: Climate Change, Environment, Governance, Water, Land Use
- Georgia Kids Count
- Georgia Family Connection Partnership
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationState of Georgia
- Geographic ScopeMulti-County, State/Province
- Georgia KIDS COUNT is a project of the Georgia Family Connection Partnership, and presents indicator data on children’s well-being, covering all 159 of the state’s counties. Each year they track and compile 49 different indicators which fall under five “result areas”: Healthy Children, Children ready to start school, Children succeeding in school, Stable self-sufficient families, and Strong communities.
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- Issue Areas: Education, Housing, Health, Poverty, Social
- Greater New Orleans Index
- Nonprofit Knowledge Works
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationGreater New Orleans, LA
- Geographic ScopeMetropolitan, Multi-County
- The Greater New Orleans Index is specifically meant to track the recovery of New Orleans and its surrounding Metro Area, after the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. It examines areas such as population recovery, infrastructure repairs (or lack thereof), and housing. The long term goal of the index is to galvanize citizens and politicians to commit to innovation and sustainability, moving past recovery and into a hopeful and dramatically improved future.
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- Issue Areas: Economy, Governance, Water, Housing, Land Use, Population, Social, Transportation
- Greenville Community Indicators Project
- Greenville Forward
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationGreenville County, SC
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- The Greenville Community Indicators project is a partnership between Greenville Forward, the United Way of Greenville, the Greenville Community Foundation, and the Greenville Chamber of Commerce to measure and understand Greenville's changing community.
- Contact Information:
Greenville Forward
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Population, Public Safety, Recreation, Social, Other, Transportation
- Herkimer and Oneida Counties Community Indicators
- The Leadership Alliance for a Vital Community is the project sponsor, led by The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties. The Center for Governmental Research is the consultant that created the project. In cooperation with the local United Wa
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project LocationUpstate New York
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- "This web-based project includes 80 indicators organized under 10 topics: Arts, Culture and Leisure; Demographics; Economy; Education; Financial Self-Sufficiency; Health; Housing; Public Safety; Technology; and Transportation. For each indicator, there is a description of the indicator, a brief analysis of trends, charts displaying trends over time, and tables providing data for Herkimer and Oneida counties, as well as comparison counties, New York State and nation, where data were available. A Regional Overview is also provided which highlights findings from each of the 10 topics. The vision for this Community Indicators study is that it will provide an opportunity for local not-for-profits, municipalities and businesses to establish shared goals toward increasing the community's economic viability, well-being and sustainability. With this information, organizations and individuals can be inspired to form partnerships and take action to build a vital community."
- Contact Information:
The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Employment, Housing, Health, Population, Public Safety, Transportation
- Houston Region Counting on Quality of Place
- Center for Houston's Future
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Research
- Project LocationGreater Houston Region
- Geographic Scope
- "The only one of its kind in the eight-county region, the ""Counting on Quality of Place"" Indicator Study is a benchmark study published annually by the Center for Houston's Future. The vision of the Center for Houston's Future is to advance the Houston region as one of the top ten global communities in which to live and work. In 2007, the Center produced the region's first Indicator Study focused on quality of place, and in 2009 committed to publish an annual update. In January 2011, the Center will publish a third Study on water quality, water supply, the health impacts of water, and green buildings. The Report is chaired by Rice University's Dr. Steve Klineberg and overseen by a policy level committee composed of business, civic, and sustainability leaders. Subject experts or "Data Groups" contribute to the independent stance of the Study by peer reviewing individual chapters."
- Contact Information:
Center for Houston's Future
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- Howard County Quality of Life Indicators
- Howard County Dept. of Citizen Services
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationHoward County, MD
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- Through the partnership and participation of multiple organizations, the Howard County Human Services Master Plan (HSMP) was conceived. The plan attempts to improve the community by focusing on areas needing improvement, and implementing strategies to address those areas. Their report, ‘Quality of Life Indicators,’ uses baseline data to examine the ‘quality of life’ of different groups of citizens. The report is split into five social groupings: Individuals and families, Children/Youth and families, Older adults, and People living with disabilities.
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- Issue Areas: Education, Employment, Health, Population, Poverty, Social, Transportation
- Indiana Youth Institute Kids Count Project
- Indiana Youth Institute
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - State, Regional
- Project LocationIndiana
- Geographic ScopeCounty, State/Province
- The Indiana Youth Institute serves as the Indiana grantee for the national Kids Count project funded through the Annie E. Casey foundation. The database aims to cover issues of child well-being in the state of Indiana.
- Contact Information:
Indiana Youth Institute
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Population, Other
- Jacksonville Quality of Life Indicators
- Jacksonville Community Council, Inc.
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationJacksonville/Duval County, FL
- Geographic ScopeCounty, Cross-State Region
- The Jacksonville Community Council (JCCI) provides numerous services to a large cross-section of Florida’s Northeast communities. They provide consultation to organizations working with community indicators, helping them with the research and implementation of their projects. Broader indicator trends are presented via three main formats: their “Community Snapshot” interactive map, an annual “Race Relations Progress Report,” and their “Quality of Life Progress Report” (now in its 25th edition). The latter report focuses on a wide variety of indicators, showing the areas that have improved over the years (and the organizations that helped support those changes), as well as describing the areas most in need of continued action. The JCCI was one of the founding members of the Community Indicators Consortium.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Public Safety, Recreation, Social, Transportation
- Kentucky KIDS COUNT Data
- Kentucky Youth Advocates
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - State, Regional
- Project LocationKentucky
- Geographic ScopeCounty, State/Province
- "KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. KIDS COUNT exists to measure child outcomes and contribute to public accountability for those outcomes, resulting in a model for data-driven advocacy for children and families. A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this initiative provides policymakers and citizens with national and comparable benchmarks of child well-being. By providing these indicators, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions of ways to secure better futures for all children. It is intended to gauge the seriousness of the problems facing children and guide the policy trends and goals on behalf of children. The Annie E. Casey Foundation funds a KIDS COUNT project in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Kentucky Youth Advocates, the Kentucky KIDS COUNT grantee, provides a detailed county-by-county picture of the condition of chi"
- Contact Information:
Kentucky Youth Advocates
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Health, Population, Public Safety, Other
- Kids Count in Michigan
- Michigan League for Human Services
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - State, Regional
- Project LocationMichigan
- Geographic Scope
- Kids Count in MIchigan seeks to improve the status of children and their families by collecting and disseminating data as a basis for public policy development and community action. The Michigan League for Human Services publishes an annual data book of county profiles of trends in child well-being as well as an annual review of maternal and infant health for communities with population over 25,000 and all 83 counties. The project provides county and community data to the national KIDS COUNT interactive Data Center. Project staff, including project partner Michigan's Children, also conduct an ongoing public education campaign to encourage data-driven advocacy and decision-making.
- Contact Information:
Michigan League for Human services
- Issue Areas:
- Long Island Index Reports
- Long Island Index
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project LocationLong Island, NY
- Geographic ScopeMulti-County, Cross-State Region
- The Long Island Index project publishes annual reports on the Long Island region. Their website presents easy to find and very specific data, graphs, key findings, interactive maps, and information on how Long Island indicators compare to those in similar regions. While policy change and informing citizens are the potential goals of the reports, the Long Island Index tries to stay neutral, and does not advocate for specific policies.
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- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Environment, Governance, Health, Population
- Louisiana KIDS COUNT
- Agenda for Children
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - State, Regional
- Project LocationLouisiana
- Geographic ScopeCounty, State/Province
- Louisiana KIDS COUNT is part of a national network of KIDS COUNT projects funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to monitor the well-being of children at the local and state levels. Agenda for Children produces the Kids Count Data Book on Louisiana's Children, as well as special reports containing parish-by-parish data on the educational, social, economic and physical well-being of children. This information is available in hard copy, as well as on-line at http://datacenter.kidscount.org/la.
- Contact Information:
Agenda for Children
- Issue Areas: Education, Health, Population, Other
- Maine Kids Count
- Maine Children's Alliance
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - State, Regional
- Project LocationMaine
- Geographic ScopeState/Province
- Maine KIDS COUNT, a project of the Maine Children's Alliance, is part of the national KIDS COUNT network, a state-by-state effort funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to track the status of children across the United States. The major goal of the Maine KIDS COUNT project is to provide policymakers and citizens with meaningful, reliable, timely data regarding the well-being of children in Maine. The principal activity of the Maine KIDS COUNT Project is the publication of the annual Maine KIDS COUNT Data Book, now in its sixteenth edition. The Maine KIDS COUNT Data Book reports a wide variety of indicators of children's health and well-being including physical and mental health, education and learning, and the social and economic contexts of children's lives. The Maine KIDS COUNT Project seeks to enrich local and state discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all of Maine's children
- Contact Information:
Maine Children's Alliance
- Issue Areas: Education, Employment, Health, Population, Social, Other
- Measuring Up: Progress Report on the Government of Alberta Business Plan
- Government of Alberta
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project LocationAlberta
- Geographic ScopeState/Province
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- Issue Areas: Economy, Governance, Housing, Social
- Metro Outlook (Kansas City Region)
- Mid-America Regional Council
- Type of Organization:Government - Regional
- Project LocationKansas City Region, MO
- Geographic ScopeMetropolitan
- Metro Outlook focuses on the economic competitiveness of the Kansas City Region. It relies on information from earlier reports to create a set of measurable goals that would foster regions that could compete in the global marketplace. The report creates a model to show what qualities of a metropolitan area most attract, and retain, talented and economically competitive citizens. The types of indicator areas focused on in the report are more unconventional and narrow than other projects: Inherent Attractiveness of Place, Social Cohesion, Strategic Decision Making Capacity, Institutional Performance, Human Capacity, Economic Competitiveness, and Efficient Use of Resources.
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- Issue Areas: Economy, Employment, Environment, Governance, Other
- Miami-Dade Community Indicators of Child Well-Being
- The Children's Trust
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project LocationMiami&Dade Counties, FL
- Geographic ScopeMulti-County
- This report was published through the efforts of The Children’s Trust, an organization with the motto, “Investing in their future…Because all children are our children.” The trust is responsible for funding initiatives that would improve the quality of life of children in the Miami-Dade region. The report relies on indicators in the areas of childhood development, health, and safety. Changes in the community are tracked, in order to make sure that the financial investments have an appropriate impact.
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- Issue Areas: Education, Governance, Health, Public Safety, Social
- Minnesota Compass
- Wilder Research, the research division of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Research
- Project LocationMinnesota -- seven regions, 87 counties, one state
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality, Metro Area, County, Sub-State Region, State/Province
- "Minnesota Compass measures progress and inspires action to keep quality of life high in regions and communities throughout our state. It tracks trends and provides analysis, community commentary and strategies for tackling an issue. The initiative measures indicators across a variety of domains, including aging, civic engagement, early childhood, economy and workforce, education, environment, health, housing, immigration, public safety, and transportation. It also provides an extensive demographic information and highlights the issue of disparities, identified as a major threat to the well-being of our state. In addition, Compass tracks long-range trends and provides analysis, community commentary and strategies for tackling an issue. Compass is funded and governed by a consortium of foundations across the state and is led by Wilder Research, a division of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation in Saint Paul."
- Contact Information:
Widler Research
- Issue Areas: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Public Safety, Transportation
- Minnesota Milestones
- Department of Administration, MN
- Type of Organization:Government - Regional
- Project LocationMN
- Geographic Scope
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- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Economy, Environment, Governance, Population, Social
- National KIDS COUNT Project
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)
- Type of Organization:Foundation - National
- Project LocationBaltimore, Maryland
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality, State/Province, National
- "KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children. At the national level, the principal activities of the initiative are the publication of the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book and the maintenance of the kIDS COUNT Data Center, which use the best available data to measure the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children. The foundation also funds a nationwide network of state-level KIDS COUNT projects that provide a more detailed, community-by-community picture of the condition of children. You can access data at: http://datacenter.kidscount.org"
- Contact Information:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Housing, Health, Population, Public Safety, Other
- North Dakota Kids COunt
- North Dakota State University
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project LocationFargo
- Geographic ScopeSub-State Region
- "North Dakota KIDS COUNT, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has been examining critical issues for North Dakota children and families since 1994. The mission of North Dakota KIDS COUNT is to provide accurate, current data on child well-being in order to inform local and state discussions about how to secure better futures for all of North Dakota's children. North Dakota KIDS COUNT offers public presentations, networking, a website, and several publication series. To view the various publications, research, and information offered by the North Dakota KIDS COUNT program, visit our website." North Dakota KIDS COUNT is included in the National Kids Count network of states. Each year, the national KIDS COUNT program publishes an assessment of children's well-being in the United States. Since 1988 the annual Kids Count Data Book has used 10 measures of child well-being to make comparisons across states and over time. North Dakota KIDS COUNT tracks child well-being data to provide a quick comparison nearly 100 state and county indicators.
- Contact Information:
North Dakota Kids Count, NDSU
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Health, Population, Other
- Northeast Washington Trends
- The Institute for Public Policy & Economic Analysis at Eastern Washington University
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project LocationNortheast Washington State
- Geographic ScopeMulti-County
- The goal of this site is to create more vibrant communities in Ferry, Pend Oreille, and Stevens Counties of northeastern Washington, by providing easy access to current data to anyone at any time. The trends should promote more informed decision-making by individuals and organizations. Indicators were chosen by seven focus groups consisting of a broad range of community members from local government agencies, non-profits, and businesses. Over time, the trends chosen may change, as the preferences of the residents of the three counties change. The development and initial maintenance of the Northeast Washington Trends website has been funded by a federal appropriation from Congress. Because this is a multi-county site, every effort has been made to portray each county separately as well as in a group. Wherever possible, the trends are graphed as an aggregate for the three counties combined, as a set showing the trends for all three on one graph, and each county separately.
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The Institute for Public Policy & Economic Analysis at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Public Safety, Recreation, Transportation
- Oklahoma County Vital Signs Report
- United Way of Central Oklahoma
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationOklahoma County, OK
- Geographic ScopeCounty, Metropolitan
- The United Way of Central Oklahoma has annually published a report on the overall well-being of citizens in central Oklahoma. With the last addition, the Vital Signs report was split into five “issue-focused” editions that relate to the “focus areas” of the United Way: Successful Kids, Strong Families, Independent Living, Healthy Citizens, and Community Preparedness.
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- Issue Areas: Health, Social, Other
- Pinellas County Community Indicators
- Healthand Human Svs Council Pinellas Cty
- Type of Organization:Government - Local
- Project LocationPinellas County, FL
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- This website keeps track of health and social indicators in the Pinellas community, and also provides information on local organizations working to address the issues reflected by those indicators. The website focuses on six main topics: Basic Needs, Criminal Justice/Legal Education, Health/Mental Health Care, Income Security, and Socioeconomic/Demographic.
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- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Health, Population, Poverty, Public Safety, Social, Other
- Pittsburgh Today
- Pittsburgh Regional Indicators Consortium
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationPittsburgh, PA
- Geographic ScopeMetropolitan
- Pittsburgh Today tracks indicator data on numerous issue areas, with the website having sections on: Arts, Demographics, Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Health, Housing, Public Safety, and transportation. The website also presents news articles about current indicator-related changes that occur in the community. There are also articles written by experts on indicators, which provide a more fleshed out narrative on certain data trends.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Public Safety, Transportation
- Provincial Sustainability Report for Manitoba
- Manitoba Conservation
- Type of Organization:Government - Regional
- Project LocationManitoba
- Geographic ScopeState/Province
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- Issue Areas: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Environment, Governance, Social
- Redefining Progress: The Genuine Progress Indicator
- Redefining Progress
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - State, Regional
- Project LocationUSA
- Geographic ScopeNational
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- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Economy, Employment, Environment, Housing, Land Use, Social, Transportation
- San DIego Regional Quality of Life Dashboard
- Equinox Center
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Research
- Project LocationSan DIego County, CA
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- The San Diego Regional Quality of Life Dashboard was initiated in 2009 by the Equinox Center to shine a spotlight on the questions that truly matter to San Diegans: Will our businesses have access to resources such as energy and water so they can continue to provide economic opportunities to all of the region's inhabitants? Do our residents have ample access to natural areas and outdoor recreation opportunities? Does our transportation network allow us to move easily from our homes to jobs, schools and other destinations? Equinox Center'Â?Â?s set of indicators is intended to be a quick and easily digestible snapshot, not unlike the set of gauges on a car'Â?Â?s dashboard that tell you how well your vehicle is running and when there is a problem.
- Contact Information:
Equinox Center
- Issue Areas: Climate Change, Economy, Environment, Housing, Health, Land Use, Recreation, Transportation
- Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project
- Applied Survey Research
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Research
- Project LocationSanta Cruz
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- Santa Cruz’s Community Assessment Project (CAP) was established 15 years ago, and has annually provided reports which look at over 120 community indicators. Each report focuses on the following areas: public safety, economy, education, health, and the natural and social environments. The data provided by the CAP project has acted like a springboard, helping to launch numerous community service initiatives.
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- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Environment, Health, Population, Public Safety
- Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan
- City of Santa Monica
- Type of Organization:Local Government - City
- Project LocationSanta Monica
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality
- In 1994, the Santa Monica City Council adopted a Sustainable City Program. The program contained goals and strategies meant to make Santa Monica look at the deeper root causes of problems in the community, and to develop a method of evaluation focused on long term impacts. After a successful first few years, the plan was revised in 2000, expanding its indicator research and creating dynamic strategies in accordance with changing trends.
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Land Use, Other, Transportation
- Savannah Metro/Chatham County Community Assessment Report
- Chatham County Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationSavanah Metro region, GA
- Geographic ScopeCounty, Metropolitan
- This report was published through The Community Indicators Chapter of the Tricentennial Plan. The indicators it focuses on are mainly social ones such as population growth, family income, and education. The report defines its methodology and the terms that go along with it. In the introduction, the Janus face of indicators is made explicit. They reflect, as well as produce. They create a representational map of what was/is, while also leading to the creation of new plans and sustainable design for the future. Indicators act as the crucial conduit between evaluation and planning.
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Housing, Health, Poverty
- Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators
- OECD
- Type of Organization:Government - Regional
- Project LocationGlobal
- Geographic ScopeGlobal
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- Issue Areas:
- South Dakota KIDS COUNT
- South Dakota KIDS COUNT, Beacom School of Business, The University of South Dakota
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project LocationVermillion, South Dakota
- Geographic ScopeCounty, State/Province
- "The South Dakota KIDS COUNT project began in 1993 and is part of a network of projects supported and coordinated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. A major goal of the Initiative is to foster a nationwide commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and their families. The project is located at The University of South Dakota, Beacom School of Business. State and local organizations rely on SD KIDS COUNT for comprehensive data profiles such as the annual Factbook, a Facts on KIDS quarterly monograph, and special reports."
- Contact Information:
School of Business, The University of South Dakota
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Health, Population, Poverty, Public Safety, Other
- Spokane County Community Indicators Initiative
- Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis Eastern Wash. Univ. Inland Northwest Community Foundation
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeMetropolitan
- The Spokane County Community Indicators Initiative’s (CII) website repeatedly makes clear that its goal is to “democratize data.” A wide breadth of indicators are covered, and the website is formatted to allow easy analysis and comparison of indicators, thereby making more apparent their interrelatedness. It is also stated that the information provided by the website serves as a “process, not a product.”
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, Housing, Health, Public Safety, Recreation, Transportation
- State of the Environment Report: The City of Calgary
- The City of Calgary
- Type of Organization:Local Government - City
- Project LocationCalgary
- Geographic ScopeMetropolitan
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- Issue Areas: Environment, Water, Land Use
- Stats Indiana
- IBRC at Indiana University
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Research
- Project LocationIndiana
- Geographic ScopeState/Province
- More than eight decades in the making, STATS Indiana has become Indiana’s information utility and the heart of the Information for Indiana distribution channel. It provides access to thousands of data items related to geographic areas in Indiana and across the nation. The original catalyst for a statewide, digitally accessible database began with the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University, but with major support from the State of Indiana since the 1980s, it has become an outstanding example of the creative partnership that can occur between state government and academia. e obtain thousands of data items from hundreds of data sets from a dozens of federal, state and local government sources, along with some commercial or private source data. While STATS Indiana adds value to these data through easy access and functionality, we acknowledge the direct agency source of the data on every table, profile or map.
- Contact Information:
IBRC @ Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Housing, Health, Population, Other, Transportation
- Sudbury's Vital Signs
- Sudbury Community Foundation
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality, Metro Area
- Sudbury Vital Signs is published by the Sudbury Community Foundation, located in Ontario. Based on the trends exhibited in the indicators of their report, the Foundation then serves as a gateway for philanthropy. Its knowledge of donor services makes it so that the Foundation can most efficiently organize fund development, grants, and leadership around the issues that most need it.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Poverty, Public Safety
- Sustainable Guernsey
- States of Guernsey Advisory and Finance Committee
- Type of Organization:Local Government - State, County, Regional
- Project LocationGuernsey
- Geographic ScopeOther
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- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Water, Housing, Health, Population, Public Safety, Transportation
- Sustainable Seattle
- Sustainable Seattle
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeCounty, Metropolitan
- Sustainable Seattle is an organization that relies on defining and implementing sustainability in the Central Pudget Sound. Through developing indicators, implementing initiatives, and organizing coalitions of different groups, Sustainable Seattle works toward creating an interconnected group of sustainable urban centers across their community. The organization is recognized as being the first “Sustainable Community” program. Sustainable Seattle sticks to a series of clearly defined and specific core values, as listed on their website.
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- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Environment, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Social
- Sustainable Washtenaw County
- Sustainable Washtenaw
- Type of Organization:Government - Regional
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- From the first image on the front page, this report on Washtenaw, MI, makes clear its focus and the role of indicators in community improvement. In the center of the image are three interconnected circles labeled “Social Health,” “Economic Vitality,” and “Environmental Stewardship.” Surrounding those circles is a larger loop made of four labeled arrows that run into each other. “Indicators” pushes into “Community Engagement,” which pushes into “Compact,” in turn pushing into “Action.” The impression is that indicators, while the key first step in adequately addressing an issue, are also things that must be perpetually researched and disseminated.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Poverty, Public Safety, Transportation
- Texas KIDS COUNT Project
- Center for Public Policy Priorities
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - State, Regional
- Project LocationTexas
- Geographic ScopeMulti-County, State/Province
- The Texas KIDS COUNT Project updates our county and state-level child well-being data base annually on over 70 different indicators of child well-being. Topic areas include: population, family economic security, health, maternal and child health, death and violence, child protection, early education, and public education.
- Contact Information:
Center for Public Policy Priorities
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Health, Population, Public Safety, Social, Other
- The State of the Nation's Ecosystems
- The Heinz Center
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Research
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeEcoregion, National
- Under the guidance and research of the Heinz Center, The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems is an annual report that attempts to lead policy makers in the right direction in regards to improving, or at least maintaining, the many different natural ecosystems in the United States. Uninhabited lands, waters, and other living resources are quantified as accurately as possible. Hopefully, with ecosystem indicators codified, any negative shift can be detected and dealt with before too much irrecoverable damage occurs.
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Climate Change, Environment, Water, Land Use, Other
- Truckee Meadows Tomorrow
- Truckee Meadows Tomorrow
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project LocationReno Nevada Region
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- Truckee Meadows Tomorrow (TMT) is a non-profit organization that keeps track of measurable indicators in Truckee Meadows, NV. In 2008, they published a comprehensive “Well-Being Report,” which focuses on 33 different community indicators and their relation to quality of life. The report also attempts to show the average citizen the steps they can take to improve the measurable results of specific areas of concern.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, Health, Land Use, Public Safety, Recreation, Social, Other
- United Way of King County Community Assessment
- United Way
- Type of Organization:Foundation - National
- Project LocationKing County, Washington
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- The Community Assessment tool gathers data on human and health services in King County, Washington. Information is organized into the following categories: Basic Needs, Key Data and Demographics, Impact Areas, Subregions, Cross-cutting Issues, and Best and Promising Practices. Like with most any other indicator index, the Community Assessment intends for its research to be used in planning efficient action strategies.
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Governance, Health, Population, Poverty, Public Safety, Social
- United Way of King County Community Assessment
- United Way of King County
- Type of Organization:Educational Organization
- Project LocationKing County, Washington
- Geographic Scope
- The Community Assessment is our web-based planning tool for up-to-date information on a wide variety of topics related to human need and human services in King County. The Community Assessment provides current information to inform our planning for community impact. We maintiain the Community Assessment for our community service planning, as a reference tool for marketing and fundraising, to support our grantees and funding partners in their planning and fundraising, and to promote regional alignment on common goals and action strategies.
- Contact Information:
United Way of King County
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Employment, Housing, Population
- Vancourver Vital Signs
- Vancouver Foundation
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeMetro Area, Metropolitan
- The Vital Signs for Metro Vancouver report not only measures areas of strength and weakness in the community, it also analyzes the issues that citizens are most concerned about, and how appropriately they think those issues are being dealt with. By showing how “perceptions measure up to reality,” the report attempts to explain how to best collectively bridge the disparities between subjective experience and objective data.
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Population, Poverty, Public Safety, Other, Transportation
- Vancouver/Fraser Basin Council Sustainability Snapshot
- Fraser Basin Council
- Type of Organization:Government - Regional
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeMetropolitan, Ecoregion
- This report provides indicator information on Canada’s Fraser Valley, Metro Vancouver, and Squamish-Lillooet regions. While it covers a breadth of issues involved with sustainability, the most recent report's primary focus is on the effects of over population on social, environmental, and economic well-being. The main topics discussed in relation to population growth are: transportation, urban expansion, air quality, consumption and waste, agricultural land protection, and food security.
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Economy, Environment, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Social, Other, Transportation
- Victoria's Vital Signs
- The Victoria Foundation
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project LocationGreater Victoria, British Columbia
- Geographic ScopeMunicipality, Metro Area
- Victoria's Vital Signs is an annual report card that evaluates the Province of British Columbia's Capital Region as a place to live, learn, work and grow. The report provides information that measures the health of our city, identifies trends and assigns grades in areas critical to the region's quality of life.
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- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, Housing, Health, Public Safety, Transportation
- Walla Walla Trends
- The Port of Walla Walla and the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis at Eastern Washington University
- Type of Organization:Government - Local
- Project LocationWalla Walla County, Washington
- Geographic ScopeCounty
- The goal of the website is to collect and publish relevant data about Walla Walla County. Our hope is that citizens of the county will use this website to gain a better understanding about their community. This will enhance the public debate as policy decisions are made concerning Walla Walla's future. The data in this website is offered as neutral information. We leave it up to the citizens to apply the information according to their individual value judgment. The Walla Walla Trends website is a work in progress. The trends have been developed using local, state, and federal databases. As the site evolves, we hope to add additional trends. The lead economic development agency for the Walla Walla Valley - the Port of Walla Walla - and the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis at Eastern Washington University worked together to create this project with funding from the Washington State Department of Commerce.
- Contact Information:
Port of Walla Walla
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Climate Change, Economy, Employment, Environment, Governance, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Public Safety, Transportation
- Wausau and Marathon Counties Life Report
- United Way of Marathon County
- Type of Organization:Foundation - Community
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeCounty, Multi-County
- The LIFE (Local Indicators for Excellence) report is released every two years, and focuses on the strengths, weaknesses, and priority issues of the Wausau and Marathon counties, WI. While providing data on the usual indicator areas of sustainability, the recent report also points out the areas most in need of immediate address. Not surprisingly, unemployment and hunger are at the top of the list.
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Economy, Education, Environment, Health, Other, Transportation
- Whistler2020: Community of Whistler, BC.
- Whistler 2020
- Type of Organization:Nonprofit - Community-based
- Project Location
- Geographic ScopeCounty, Metropolitan
- This project focuses on moving the resort town of Whistler, BC, towards a future of deeply integrated sustainability practices. Future strategies are laid out based on the methodical analysis of preexisting indicator data, focusing on the trends of several key priority areas. Whistler’s progress towards the 2020 goals is constantly measured, and there are frequent updates on the specific actions that still need to be taken to get closer to those goals. The website presents its extensive data through a very innovative and easy to understand interactive explorer, mapping out the interrelations between data, priorities, and strategies (the organic design and layout cleverly parallels the integrated circular structures used to represent the broader framework of sustainability).
- Contact Information:
- Issue Areas: Arts and Culture, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Environment, Governance, Water, Housing, Health, Land Use, Population, Poverty, Public Safety, Recreation, Social, Other, Transportation
