Award Winners
CIC is pleased to announce the winners of our Annual Awards in three categories that will be presented at our fall Impact Summit in College Park, MD, November 15-16, 2012:
Impact Awards to Organizations
Impact Award
Winners:
- Minnesota Compass is a social indicators project that began in the Twin Cities and grew to measure progress in the entire state of Minnesota, its seven regions, 87 counties, and larger cities.
- Based in the greater Cincinnati area, the Strive Partnership is a team of leaders from the education, nonprofit, community, civic, and philanthropic sectors working together to improve education and opportunity for students from cradle to career.
- Community Indicators Victoria is a community well-being indicators project in Victoria, Australia that is working to improve citizen engagement, community planning, and policy making.
- Coordinated by Community Foundations of Canada, Vital Signs is an annual community check-up conducted by over 30 community foundations across Canada.
These indicator projects (US or international) demonstrate the power of indicators to drive positive community change. Relevant communities will likely be geographical, but can also be topical or demographic communities of shared interest. Projects can be hosted by non-profit organizations, local government entities, foundations or academic institutions.
The purpose of this award is to:
- celebrate the successes of outstanding indicator projects and the people who create and manage them
- add to the body of knowledge about best practices in the world of indicators globally
Well-qualified projects will focus on the use of indicators to analyze and communicate community conditions for the purposes of identifying and understanding issues or conditions of concern and improving them. Successful projects will demonstrate the ways in which they engage their communities to develop and deploy indicators to drive and track community change, and communicate results. The community may be large or small, but the impact of the use of indicators must be significant. CIC is specifically interested in specific positive improvements resulting from the use of indicators and tools and mechanisms used to catalyze action and drive community
change.
Leadership Awards
CIC is awarding Leadership Awards in two categories. Leaders must be employed or retired from nonprofit organizations; local, regional, state, or federal government entities; philanthropic organizations; or academic institutions.
1. Emerging leaders: leaders under the age of 45 that have demonstrated extraordinary contribution to the indicators field with cutting-edge approaches to improving community conditions and well-being.
Winners:
-Michael McAfee, Director, Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink
Dr. McAfee works with leaders in more than 38 communities across the United States to improve the educational and developmental outcomes of all children in some of the nation's most distressed communities. He is a champion of the use of community indicators throughout the philanthropic community and the federal government. Find a longer bio here.
-Chantel Bottoms, Senior Research Analyst, Community Action Network
Ms. Bottoms has been instrumental in the development of a Community Dashboard. She began by researching dashboard processes in business and like-minded communities. The findings were reported out to community stakeholders and have served as a guiding force in the continuing evolution of the Community Dashboard. In building the robustness of the Community Dashboard, Ms. Bottoms has not only dedicated an extensive amount of time to researching indicators and vulnerable populations, but has also conducted a rigorous analysis of over 80 community planning documents. The findings of the analysis helped to shape a strategic framework that will be used to facilitate coordination and collaborative action.
2. Hall of Heroes: leaders of any age who have had significant, long-term impact on the indicators field and the improvement of community conditions and well-being.
Winners:
-Bob Groves, Director, United States Census Bureau and incoming Provost at Georgetown University
"President Barack Obama nominated Robert M. Groves for director of the U.S. Census Bureau on April 2, 2009, and the Senate confirmed him on July 13, 2009. He began his tenure as director on July 15, 2009. Groves had been a professor at the University of Michigan and director of its Survey Research Center, as well as research professor at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He was the Census Bureau’s Associate Director for Statistical Design, Methodology and Standards from 1990 to 1992, on loan from the University of Michigan."
-G. Thomas Kingsley, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and Co-Director of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
Tom Kingsley is a senior researcher in housing, urban policy, and governance issues at the Urban Institute, and is the author of numerous publications in those fields. He served for more than a decade as the Director of the Institute’s Center for Public Finance and Housing and is currently co-director of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership--an initiative to further the development of advanced data systems for policy analysis and community building in U.S. cities. His personal research is now focused on neighborhood impacts of the foreclosure crisis and trends in concentrated poverty. He has directed a number of other major policy research programs, both domestically and in international development. He previously served as Director of the Rand Corporation's Housing and Urban Policy Program, and as Assistant Administrator of the New York City Housing and Development Administration. He has also taught on the faculties of the graduate urban planning programs at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.
-Diana Urban, State Representative, Connecticut General Assembly
Representative Diana Urban has led the charge in the Connecticut General Assembly to ground budget decisions in the best available data. She was first elected to the Connecticut General Assembly in 2000, and serves as Chair of the Select Committee on Children as well as Co-Chair of the Results Based Accountability Sub Committee of the Appropriations Committee. Throughout her tenure in the General Assembly, Representative Urban has led the fight for Results Based Accountability (RBA) in budgeting within the State of Connecticut. She has also been recognized by Governing Magazine as a National Leader in High Performance Government for her work on RBA and recently the NCSL awarded Connecticut the Con Hogan Award for RBA and Work on Innovation in Government. For twenty-six years Representative Urban was employed as an Economics and Political Science professor. She is currently a Senior Consultant with the Results Leadership Group in Washington DC.
-Ralph Smith, Senior Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation
"Mr. Smith is senior vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. He also serves as managing director for the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, a national effort to increase rates of third-grade reading proficiency, especially for children from low-income families. From 1975 to 1997, he sat on the faculty of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, teaching corporate law, securities regulations, and education law and policy. He served on the boards of Leap Frog Enterprises, Inc., from 2005 to 2009 and Nobel Learning Communities, Inc., from 2007 to 2011. He also served on the boards of Venture Philanthropy Partners and the Center for Responsible Lending. Smith also has held a number of senior leadership positions for the School District of Philadelphia, including chief of staff, senior consultant and special counsel. He received his undergraduate degree from Loyola University of Los Angeles, a J.D. from the University of California and served as a teaching fellow and LLM/SJD candidate at Harvard University."
Received nominations reviewed by experts in the field of indicators on the CIC Board, who independently ranked and discussed their individual choices to reach consensus on final Award recipients.
