Community Indicators Consortium Strategic Plan by Goal and Action

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Vision:

Community indicators will be used by all communities to monitor community conditions that create inequity and to facilitate sustainable improvements in quality of life.

Mission:

As the worldwide central knowledge and organizational hub for community indicators projects, CIC advances and supports measurable, equitable and sustainable improvements in the quality of community life.

Goal 1: Increase the use of community indicators for monitoring community conditions and advancing sustainability and improvement of community well-being.

  • Provide resources and tools (conference, webinars, training…) for Community Indicator Projects
  • Promote the use of data with equitable lens
  • Network/Discussion/Training Opportunities
  • Cultivate expertise through publications to support use of CIPs

Goal 2: Promote community engagement as a critical component of community indicators, the baseline from which community indicators should be developed, and the foundation for work to address inequities.

  • Offer training on community engagement
  • Partnerships with community engagement/equity organizations

Goal 3: Expand linkages and mechanisms, across disciplines, to share knowledge across geographies and between organizations using or promoting the use of indicators.

  • Collaboration with similar organizations
  • Strengthen opportunities for members to interact
  • Diversity on the CIC board
  • Strengthen membership benefits
  • Expertise sharing across disciplines and geographies
  • Foster excellence with respected awards

Goal 4: Grow organizational capacity for CIC and community indicators projects.

  • Training on improving organizational capacity
  • Grow membership
  • Fundraising to support CIC and to do research to support CIPs