"I wholeheartedly endorse JCCI and Ben Warner to any community considering the development of an indicators project. ... We consider him to be a partner in the business of community transformation."
Tim Dutton, Executive Director, SCOPE
"With every annual update of each set of indicators, JCCI's proactive efforts in community indicators are enhanced and Northeast Florida remains a recognized world leader in this work."
Government Accountability Office
Our community indicators process starts with engaging the community in developing a vision for a preferred future. We then facilitate an open community process in identifying the most important measures of progress towards that vision.
We encourage communities to help identify local researchers that we can partner with to build local capacity for sustaining the community indicators effort. The power of a community indicators effort often lies in how the data become institutionalized in the decision-making processes of public and private organizations throughout the community, developing a shared sense of community priorities and fostering collaborative action. We provide on-going support of these efforts to ensure that the indicators effort is not focused on creating a report, but on reshaping and enhancing the problem-solving capacities of a community.
See Jacksonville's Quality of Life Progress Report and Community Snapshot project for more information about what we can do. Recent efforts to help launch indicators projects include:
To see how Community Works can help your community, contact us.
"(JCCI's community indicators project) is having a direct impact on community and government sustainability. Their process was democratic, of manageable size, and well connected to local government."
The Institute for Sustainable Development
