2019 Impact Summit

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) 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.