CIC’s award program advances excellence in the indicators field by identifying and recognizing projects that best demonstrated positive change in their communities and the power of indicators to drive that change and leaders who have made outstanding contributions in the field.The Community Indicators Awards Program offers a forum for the indicators field to highlight its impact on the community and to provide guidance to the entire field on the many positive directions toward which it can strive.
Starting in 2005, CIC has recognized some of the most impactful programs in the world and, since 2012, it has also inducted outstanding leaders into our CIC Hall of Heroes and recognized the promising talent of Emerging Leaders.
We are grateful to the Urban Markets Initiative of The Brookings Institution for their support of the 2005 and 2007 Awards.
Impact Awards
These indicator projects demonstrate the power of indicators to drive positive community change. Winning projects use data to analyze, communicate community conditions, and catalyze action for making measurable and sustainable improvements in quality of community life.
Communities can 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 community may be large or small, but the impact of the use of indicators must be significant.
IMPACT AWARD – COMMUNITY PROJECT
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IMPACT AWARD – LEGACY PROJECT
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 King County, WA (USA) Communities Count |
 San Antonio, TX (USA) – SA2020 |
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City of Surrey
Sustainability Dashboard
MAP
Making Action Possible for Southern Arizona
The Spartanburg Community Indicators Project
Spartanburg, SC (USA)
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance
-Jacob France Institute at the University of
Baltimore (BNIA)
Baltimore, Md, USA
Bogotá Cómo Vamos
Bogotá, Colombia
ACT Rochester
Rochester, New York, USA
Economic Issues for Women in Texas
Texas Women’s Foundation
Austin, Texas, USA
Peg
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Travis County Research & Planning Division
Austin, Texas, USA
The Boston Indicators Project
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Guelph Community Wellbeing Initiative
City of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Canadian Index of Wellbeing
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
JCCI
The Jacksonville Community
Council, Inc.
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Community Indicators Victoria
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Minnesota Compass
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Vital Signs Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Strive, Cinncinatti / Strive Together Network
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Leadership Awards – Hall of Heroes
Hall of Heroes: leaders who have had significant, long-term impact on the indicators field and the improvement of community conditions and well-being.
Dr. Bryan Smale
 Angela Glover Blackwell |
 William O’Hare (with CIC Board Member Janice Hamilton Outtz) |
Paul Mattessich
2018 Hall of Heroes
Mike Salvaris
Project Manager
Australian National Development Index
Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC (Australia)
Susan Brutschy
Co-founder and President of Applied Survey Research
Former CIC Board Member
Watsonville, California – US
Dr. László Pintér
Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Central European University (CEU) /
Institute
Budapest – Hungary
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Winnipeg, MB – Canada
Anthony Iton MD, JD, MPH
Senior Vice President
Healthy Communities
The California Endowment
Berkeley, California, USA
Dr. Susan Millea
Community Systems Analyst
Children’s Optimal Health
Austin, Texas, USA
Frank Lenk
Director of Research Service, Mid-America Regional Council
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Jon Hall
Policy Specialist – National Human Development Reports
Human Development Report Office
UNDP
New York, New York, USA
Munir A. Sheikh, Ph.D
Distinguished Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University,
former head of Statistics Canada
Donna Stark
Vice President, Talent & Leadership Development,
the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Tom Kingsley
Senior Researcher in
Housing, Urban Policy, and
Governance Issues
at the Urban Institute
Ralph Smith
Vice President,
the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Leadership Awards – Community Awards and Emerging Leaders
Emerging leaders: leaders under the age of 40 that have demonstrated extraordinary contribution to the indicators field with cutting-edge approaches to improving community conditions and well-being.
LEADERSHIP AWARD – COMMUNITY LEADER
Sondra Samuels
LEADERSHIP AWARD – EMERGING LEADER
Emerging Leader Award
Jennifer Temmer
LEADERSHIP AWARD – EMERGING LEADER
Samaah Abdallah
New Economic Foundation
London, UK
LEADERSHIP AWARD – EMERGING LEADER
Megan Joseph
Director of Community Organizing
United Way of Santa Cruz County
Capitola, California, USA
LEADERSHIP AWARD – EMERGING LEADER
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| Mark Abraham Executive Director, DataHaven New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
Emily Garr Pacetti Manager of Research and Evaluation at the Fund for Our Economic Future Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
Derek Eder
Open Data Web Developer, Owner of DataMade, Co-founder of Open City,
Organizer for OpenGov Chicago
Henrietta Munoz, PhD
Senior Director of Grants at United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County
Geoff Smith
Executive Director, Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University
Michael McAfee
Promise Neighborhood Institute,
PolicyLink
Chantel Bottoms
Community Action Network
Awards from 2005 to 2009
Awardees were selected to:
- celebrate the successes of outstanding indicator projects and the people who create and manage them and
- add to the public body of knowledge about community indicator projects’ best practices.
2009 CI-PM Winner
- First Place: The Government of South Australia
- Second Place: The Children’s Services Council of Broward County, Florida
- Honorable Mention: The Sustainability Design Centre at the University of British Columbia/The City of Calgary, Canada
- Honorable Mention: The Commonwealth of Virginia’s Virginia Performs
2008 Winners
First place: Our Kids Count, Halton Region, Ontario
Second place: Georgia Indicators of Child and Family Wellbeing, Georgia
2007 Winners
First place: Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project, Santa Cruz County, California
Second place: CitiStat, City of Baltimore, Maryland
Third place: Community Report Card, Osceola County, Florida
Honorable mention: Georgia Indicators of Child and Family Well-Being, Georgia
Honorable mention: Detroit Data Partnership, Detroit, Michigan
2005 Winners
First place: Truckee Meadows Tomorrow, Reno, Nevada
Second place: New Yorkers for Parks, New York City, New York
Third place: West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, Oakland, California
Honorable mention: City of Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan, Santa Monica, California
Honorable mention: Community Vision, Osceola County, Florida
Honorable mention: Jacksonville Community Council Inc., Jacksonville, Florida
Honorable mention: Vision for Children at Risk, St. Louis, Missouri