2019 Impact Summit

a) Using Data for Social Impact: How A Cross-Sector Commitment to Degree Attainment Is Transforming Florida Communities (Kimberly Lent, Kimberly Krupa, PhD) The percentage of adults with a high-quality postsecondary degree or credential is one of the most powerful indicators of economic development and healthy communities. Through an overview of FCAN and Achieve Escambia’s research and policy analysis, data dashboards, and cross-sector convenings, attendees will see how Florida’s commitment to community indicators is driving conversation about inequities and sparking action.

b) RI Talent Dashboard: Connecting Rhode Islanders to Interactive, Cross-sector Data (Ariel Neumann, Amelia Roberts) As demand for data access and democratization has increased, the need for a more robust and accessible solution has emerged. In late 2018, the RI Governor’s Workforce Board (GWB) spearheaded a cross-agency initiative to make data more accessible to the public as well as provide more capacity to state agencies. GWB, the RI Department of Education, the RI Department of Labor and Training, the RI Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner and DataSpark collaborated to create the RI Talent Dashboard, a website dedicated to providing accurate and up-to-date data across 15+ indicators. From this presentation, participants will learn what the RI Talent Dashboard is, how it was built, challenges we encountered, and what you may need to consider if you want to build a similar site.

a) Developing a Snapshot of Community Participation  (Trina Prior, Jenny Lee-Leugner)  Are we missing the bigger picture with the way we look at levels of community participation? What role does social media play in enabling people to participate in community life? Which generations are most active and in what ways? What prevents or limits people’s participation? These are some of the questions Vancouver Foundation sought to answer with its 2019 Vital Signs report. This presentation will outline: the Foundation’s motivation for moving from a broad community indicator report to one focused on the theme of community participation; how findings were paired to tell a story; and the opportunities that have been identified to share and build on the findings.
With a report release date of October 3rd, CIC conference attendees will be among the first to hear about this research.

b) Reaching Across Sectors, Geographies and Demographics to Build a Foundation for Improved Quality of Life (Nancy Watson) Learn how Engage Nova Scotia, a small not-for-profit, is combining just-in-time design with long-range visioning to leverage original, province-wide research and drive community-based systems change by catalyzing ground-up, cross-sectoral regional teams

c) Leaving no Canadian Behind: Data to Identify Vulnerable Groups of Canadians and Measure their Wellbeing in the Context of SDG Implementation (Stefan Jungcurt) One of the fundamental principles of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals is to leave no one behind, meaning that all SDGs and their targets must be achieved for all people everywhere. The Agenda further states that implementation must start put those most behind first, to ensure that people suffering from extreme poverty and marginalization will be prioritized. With the support of the Canadian government, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) investigated which groups of Canadians are most at risk of being left behind and what data sources are available to monitor their well being. We find that, despite Canada’s overall high standard of living, many Canadians are currently being left behind and that many of the affected groups are insufficiently represented in official statistics. Vulnerable groups must also be enabled to participate in the definition of indicator frameworks, data collection and analysis, and be empowered to use data to tell their stories of deprivation.

a) The Bay Area Equity Atlas: Data for Regional Action on Equity (Sarah Treuhaft)
From informing the public debate to driving policy solutions, data broken down by race and geography is a key ingredient in advancing equity in communities. Yet grassroots community groups and organizers often lack access to the data they need to power their efforts. To address this gap, the San Francisco Foundation partnered with the National Equity Atlas team at PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity to build the Bay Area Equity Atlas, a comprehensive data resource that equips community leaders with 21 powerful equity metrics and policy solutions for inclusive prosperity. During this presentation, you will learn about this new tool and how community leaders throughout the region are using it to advance equity campaigns.

b) RACE COUNTS: Tracking Racial Disparities in California (Chris Ringewald, Tolu Bamishigbin) Participants will hear about how a partnership of community organizers, social justice advocates, and university researchers developed the most comprehensive community indicators initiative focused on race in California.

c) Measuring the Dream for an Equitable and Sustainable Future (Katie Oconnell, Nisha Botchwey) More than 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, what has become of his call for social, political, and economic equality for African Americans? The Measuring the Dream (MTD) project anticipates where and how communities, decision-makers, and institutions can engage to build an equitable future. The project aims to educate leaders to fully understand the nexus between the legacy of racism and the continuation of gaps in wealth, education and quality of life between White and Black Americans. This session will focus on how a broader national context. can help community indicator projects think about local equity measures

a) Partnering with Everyday Democracy to Create Connection (Jennifer Anderson-Ochoa, Susan Brutshcy)  Santa Cruz County is utilizing information collected via the Community Assessment Project and other initiatives to have data-informed conversations about race and equity. In this presentation we will explore how individual, community, program and population level data is opening space for residents in Santa Cruz County to connect, build trust, and problem-solve together with an equity lens.
 b) Ramsey County and Saint Paul’s Joint Complete Count Committee (Jolie Wood, Toni Newborn) This presentation will provide a case study of how the most diverse, urban county in Minnesota has been working with the community, municipalities, neighboring counties, and the state to prepare for a census that may be the most challenging in recent history. Early in 2018, Ramsey County and the City of Saint Paul began working together to form a joint Complete Count Committee (CCC). We held our first CCC meeting with 25 members of the community and local municipalities in October 2018. At the second meeting in January, 45 people gathered and formed seven subcommittees: Renters, People of Color, Immigrants and Refugees, Education, Business, Seniors, and Homeless. Each subcommittee created an action plan for the next 16 months. Since then, subcommittees have met monthly, worked their networks, recruited new members, and begun outreach. This presentation will discuss the challenges as well as opportunities, in terms of resources, recruitment of diverse voices, equity in representation, and messaging that is inclusive and responsive. We are creating relationships among stakeholders who are dedicated to building greater trust in the census, broader awareness of how it affects all of us, and higher motivation to participate. We hope to nurture and build upon these relationships beyond April 2020, as we deepen all our community engagement efforts.

a) The Power of Local Data in Communicating Health Disparities: Lessons from the City Health Dashboard (Becky Ofrane)  City leaders and policymakers need reliable, local data to craft policies and programs, but challenges exist in making relevant data available to them. The City Health Dashboard is an online resource with over 35 measures of health and its drivers for the 500 largest US cities. The data dashboard strikes a balance between accessibility and rigor, demonstrating the power of local data in communicating health disparities to multiple audiences.

b) Tracking-Progress Across Canada: Using the Tracking-Progress Platform to Digitize Vital Signs Report  (Kyle Wiebe)   The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)’s customizable Tracking-Progress platform transforms data into accessible and interactive displays (maps, graphs and charts) for leaders and community members to track issues that matter locally. By bringing the CFC’s Vital Signs reporting online to the tracking-progress platform, the IISD and CFC intend to improve the effective communication of data to residents, community organizations, universities and colleges, government leaders and community foundations so they can take action and direct resources where they will have the greatest impact. This session will share experiences on the technical development of the tool, how consensus building was integrated into the design of the platform s and how the IISD is using training to improve the capacity of community foundations to build internal organizational resilience and promote the sustainability of community indicators systems.

a) Communicating Data with ESRI Story Maps  (Mohammad Yusri Jamaluddin) The session will go through an introduction of ESRI Story Maps, the concept of storytelling with data, as well as examples of how communities and governments agencies in Michigan have utilized Story Maps to communicate their community development efforts.

b) Structuring Engagement to Enable Community Collaboration (Jay Dev) Over 2,000 governments are using ArcGIS Hub, a geospatial platform for effective open data sharing and community collaboration. In this talk, we will share the concept and capabilities of this platform and share the work of several municipalities that are using data-driven initiatives to improve internal coordination across departments and coordinated action with community groups and constituents.

a) What Has Happened Since Peg Incorporated the Sustainable Development Goals? – New Conversations, Partnerships, and Ways of Working (Stefan Jungcurt)  At the 2018 Community Indicators Consortium Impact Summit, Peg was excited to share that the Sustainable Development Goals had been incorporated into the system. This year, Peg is eager to report on how, within a short period of time, this approach is changing conversations, engaging new partners, and transforming ways of working. The objective of the presentation is to inspire attendees about the potential of incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals and provide examples of how the Peg community indicator system is benefitting from doing so.
b) MAP Dashboard: Moving Southern Arizona from Data to Action through Community Connections (Jennifer Pullen)  This presentation will use education data provided on the MAP Dashboard to highlight how we connect with our partners, stakeholders, and local community. The discussion will include examples of how disaggregated data on the MAP led to action that resulted in change within our region.

a) Concretize Community Conditions in Indicators and Annualized Targets to Advance Racial Equity Agenda (Huilan Krenn) In this session, we will demonstrate a real-life example of a hybrid model an international foundation created/used to capture the community-specific conditions change under the umbrella of foundation-wide strategic plan, through indicators; all for the purpose of exposing and eliminating racial disparities in traditionally under-served communities of color
b) Coordinating Community Indicators with $30 million in Economic Inclusion Grants: A Study in CI-PM Integration (Luis Escoboza and Frank Ridzi) In this session we show how community indicators projects encourage civic participation and direct resources toward making change by focusing on the case of several counties where public participation sessions highlighted areas of need and on the data infrastructure that was built to monitor the awarding of $30 million in anti-poverty and economic inclusion grants. We will describe the data infrastructure with important insights on how grant reporting can be coordinated with broader community data so that program evaluation and community indicators can be united through a Results Based Accountability approach.

a) Data disaggregation to provide information for Minnesota’s diverse cultural communities (Allison Liuzzi, Jacob Wascalus) Minnesota is home to rich and diverse cultural communities. In 2019, Minnesota Compass (www.mncompass.org) launched new cultural community at-a-glance profiles. Relying on data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS USA), the profiles provide demographic information and quality-of-life outcomes for 12 of the largest cultural communities in Minnesota. This presentation will focus on methodologies used to identify cultural communities, strengths and limitations of information provided by the profiles, and plans for further development and refinement.
b) The King County Health Disparities Dashboard: Data for Measuring Health Equity (Mariko Toyoji, Sara Jaye Sanford) - Racial/ethnic health disparities are higher rates of serious health conditions or deaths that affect communities of color. These disparities can result in shorter lifespans and lower quality of life, are rooted in inequities in the opportunities and resources needed for good health, such as education, employment, safe and healthy neighborhoods, and access to health care. These inequities are often the result of current and historical institutionalized racism or explicit racial bias. The King County Health Disparities Dashboard documents how much specific disparities affect communities of color in King County. Using relative rate ratios, the dashboard shows social determinants of health and health outcomes data for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander residents in King County, compared to whites or the King County average. We hope that this information rich dashboard will be used as a tool to identify health disparities and inform local health equity work.

Target Setting in Rochester NY: Resistance or Results (Ann Johnson)  
Since 2017 ACT Rochester has been facilitating and coordinating the launch of a community scorecard with multiple community partners. This three-year pilot will measure the well-being of individuals and the community, focusing on income, health and education for the City of Rochester, Monroe County, and Monroe County without the City. This scorecard will prioritize major measures of community outcomes, monitor annual progress against three-year targets, and align with local collective impact initiatives and funders to call our community to action leveraging efforts and resources in our community.

Harnessing the Performing Arts to Build Participatory, Sustainable Communities: The Modernity Index (Nancy Bertaux and Kaleel Skeirik)
We have collected data on modernity of works presented for key music, theatre and dance organizations in Cincinnati, Ohio. We have analyzed this data, utilizing our original Modernity Index model, and linking aggregate modernity index values to measures of the city’s sustainability and vitality. Our policy recommendations include developing and expanding initiatives to increase the number of contemporary works presented.

a) Rising from the rubble: Re-imagining a more equitable news and information ecosystem in Boulder County, CO (Chris Barge)  Local journalism across the U.S. is struggling to find ways to not only survive, but to thrive. Faced with shrinking budgets, ownership that values profit above all, and, often, a legacy of failing to reflect and serve diverse sectors of the community, the future of local journalism is unsure.Boulder County, CO, reflects these national trends. And the area is also nearly 15% self-identifying Hispanic or Latino/a and growing, many of whom speak Spanish as a first language.Community Foundation Boulder County, through two years of deep listening in the community, has come to understand that there is both a need and an opportunity for deeply reported local stories that cross diverse sectors of the community, reflecting the lived reality of those community members that is often not covered in local media.Come hear how this community foundation is using two decades of community indicators reporting as a cornerstone of a new, Equity Reporting Initiative. It begins now, with a podcast debuting in October, 2019, that dives deep into the community's most pressing issues. Future plans include an Equity Reporting Lab that will provide training and financial support for enterprise reporting on these issues; plus a Solutions Fund, which would allow the foundation to accelerate the community's response to issues raised by the reporting, through convenings, advocacy, organizing and grants to organizations addressing these issues.
b) Data accessibility as a pathway to genuine equality for Atlanta’s westside communities   (Katie OConnell) Data is a dominant force during the decision-making process. It can help determine which roads to expand and the optimal location for a grocery store. Data can also be used to influence which schools to shutter and “appropriate” city services to discontinue. Considered fact-based, objective, and impartial, data often trumps emotional appeals during the final evaluation of a project; thus creating a power imbalance between those with the resources to access data and those without. The Communities Who Know Data Dashboard works to build and sustain relationships among constituencies located in West Atlanta with the goal to strengthen partnerships around issues of common concern. By allowing West Atlanta advocacy groups to easily retrieve data, the CWK Data Dashboard empowers residents, nonprofits, and neighborhood associations to be full participants in the decision-making process

a) The Politics of Health: Assessing the Impact of Political Ideology on Health in American Cities (Emma Connell) 
What is the impact of political ideology on health when comparing across cities? How does a city’s health change as its political ideology shifts?

This study analyzes the impact of political ideology at the MSA level on a series of eight health indicators and implications for policy and research.


 b) Is it Working? Using triangulation to focus efforts and measure impact (Debbie Balch) 
Some Quality of Life/Community Indicator efforts are heavy on metadata and light on resident input, providing an interesting but incomplete picture overall.

Elevated Insights will share a visual and engaging case study of 2019 Age Friendly Research, highlighting how they triangulated metadata, quantitative and qualitative resident feedback to impact and measure Age Friendly efforts in Colorado Springs.

a) H2O IQ & EQ: New indicators of what the American public knows and feels about water (Craig Helmstetter)  Experts know that water resources are threatened by everything from pollution and aging infrastructure to over-use and climate change. But what does the public know? And how does it feel about water? In this session we'll share the results of a ground-breaking new survey on water IQ (intelligence quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient).
b) Sustainability Indicators for Small and Rural Communities: Development of DISC (Decision Integration for Stronger Communities) (James Summers) The Decision Integration for Strong Communitis (DISC) application offers relevant and readily-available information to assist smaller communities to address their sustainabillity goals. Small towns and rural communities are looking for ways to strengthen their economies, provide better quality of life, and build on local assets. They are creating their own paths to sustainability that enhance their distinctive characteristics and that fit their size, geography, and resources. In a series of discussions with smaller communities (

a) Municipal Measurement of the Triple Bottom Line: Capturing Anticipated Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts (Katie Ricketts) Getting municipal project managers to think about policy and programmatic impacts outside of their (often) narrow area of expertise can be a challenge. Getting City Council and Executive Leadership to digest distilled but complicated information that accurately reflects the trade-offs along economic, social and environmental aspects might be even harder. At the City of Fort Collins, our internal Triple Bottom Line Scan (TBL-S) team has spent the last 5 years using a human-centered design approach for developing a functional, municipal TBL-S decision making tool that integrates the needs of busy, overwhelmed program managers while also illuminating a diverse set of tensions and potential impacts for Council and executive leadership to consider. We want share the lessons we've learned, the failures we've had, and the successes we've achieved as we've fine-tuned our tool for internal policy and decision-making when trade-offs along social, economic and environmental constraints must be considered.
b) Indicators of Personal Agency to measure urban youth work readiness programs (Peg Thomas)  The Youth Social Entrepreneurship (YSE) Model used by nonprofits: youth-centric, youth-led business or community social initiatives that include the development of entrepreneurial thought, community engagement, social-emotional learning and workforce readiness, has proven to be evidence-based as the result of a 24-month study with 11 programs serving almost 900 youth. Specific gains in youth personal agency are remarkable. The study has implications for indicators used in future studies.

Considering Health:
a) What's Health Got to Do With It? (Emma Connell, Paul Mattessich) In this session, we will primarily discuss our process of identifying, compiling, and analyzing health and economic indicators for a study of how health impacts a community’s economic vitality. We will also discuss implications and opportunities for other organizations interested in doing similar work.
b) A Colorado Health Equity Data and Storytelling Platform: Harnessing the Power of Communities (Jennifer Newcomer)  The Colorado Trust believes that everyone deserves the chance to grow up healthy and thrive. Yet, this is not the reality for many of Colorado’s residents, largely due to where they happen to live, or the color of their skin. Over the past several years, The Colorado Trust has been working with Shift Research Lab to develop an approach to engage communities across Colorado for the development of an innovative online platform that will share compelling data and stories in ways that help promote health equity. Pilot implementation is beginning this year. This platform will share Colorado-focused, community-level data on health inequities and the underlying systemic factors that create inequities. By elevating information that is responsive and appropriate for each community, including the integration of stories depicting life experiences of residence in communities, data-driven decisions can be made that are crucial for realizing the vision of fair and equal opportunity for all residents to achieve good health. This session will focus on sharing the current process to engage a larger end-user base to inform the project, connecting existing efforts, including build the base of stewardship across the state that will be a necessary component for impact, as well as sharing Shift’s role as the data and research-backbone for the platform.

a) Informing ACTion Together (Ann Johnson)  During 2019, ACT Rochester celebrates A Decade of IMPACT, reflecting on the variety of indicators, partners and deliverables that propelled us forward.Being valued as a trusted data provider, neutral convener and advocate for change is not an easy task. The community indicator journey includes lessons learned along with celebrations of success and often requires being “The Agitator.”

b) 2019 ConnectUP! State of the Work Report (Elaine Rasmussen, Stephanie Lewis) As the first ConnectUP! State of the Work Report, the goal is to provide a baseline of information that is informed by qualitative and quantitative data that has been collected over the past year and a half. The report will highlight the barriers, challenges, issues and triumphs faced by women, people of color, LGBTQ and other underestimated entrepreneurs in Minnesota. Data collected in this inaugural report is also intended to provide a cursory overview of the entrepreneur ecosystem, which currently has limited quantitative data and has systematically invalidated, overlooked and untapped, the perspective of the communities the data is intended to represent. This report intentionally honors such qualitative data by recognizing that much of the information contained inside these pages are the voices, experiences, knowledge, stories, and traditions of women, people of color, LGBTQ, Indigenous, rural, immigrant and other underestimated communities.