Community Indicators Consortium

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What indicators measure children's well-being? Urban sustainability? Community sustainability? How can the indicator projects of disparate communities inform one another's practice? How can YOU start a successful indicator project?

The answers to these questions and more will be presented and discussed at the continuation of CIC's webinar series: Indicators in Depth.

CIC offers the Spring 2012 webinars (more to be - outlined below - FREE to our members, and for a fee of $25 per presentation to non-members. Read the descriptions below. Registration options for Non-members are below the descriptions.

If you are a CIC Member, please use the following links to Register:

•     Levy, Integrating Measurement, https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/725905426

•     Becker, Using Outcomes evaluation, https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/226062418

•     Norris and Fulcher, The Community Commons, https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/536005474

•     Grinstein, What is Weave?. https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/852338610

If you are unsure of your membership status you can check it here or email us at membership@communityindicators.net

• Integrating Measurement into Wealth Creation Work
  

Thursday, April 19, 2012
2:00pm EDT

Melissa Levy, Senior Associate, Yellow Wood Associates, Inc.

This webinar will discuss the ways that measurement, and the You Get What You Measure approach specifically, is being integrated into the Ford Foundation Wealth Creation in Rural Communities Initiative and the work of its grantees. The Ford Foundation's Wealth Creation in Rural Communities is interested in building seven forms of wealth in rural communities. Measurement is used as a planning and assessment tool for moving these communities toward sustainable livelihoods.

• Using Outcomes Evaluation for Building Support
  

Thursday, April 26, 2012
2:00pm EDT

Samantha Becker, Research Project Manager, Unviversity of Washington Information School

Most program managers understand how evaluation can help an organization comply with grant requirements, improve performance, and provide better services. But that's not all evaluation can do. Learn how evaluation and the skillful application of indicators can help mobilize support for your organization by:  

 -Developing messages to policy audiences about the value of your programs
 -Preparing your internal audiences and supporters to advocate for you
 -Building partnerships to leverage resources and amplify your value

The University of Washington Information School's U.S. IMPACT Study research group has developed the situated logic model to help public libraries, community technology centers, and other non-profits make the effort of evaluation go farther by showing how to effectively link programmatic models and indicators across organizations. This model can provide a map to help your organization build new relationships and improve sustainability.

• The Community Commons: Visualizing Public Data to Help Create Healthy and Sustainable Communities
  

Thursday, May 17, 2012
2:00pm EDT

Tyler Norris, Social Entrepreneur; and Chris Fulcher, Co-Director of the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems, University of Missouri - Columbia

The Community Commons is an interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for civic leaders across the sectors, and participants of place-based initiatives across the US, working to create healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. This webinar will provide a live demonstration of how users can access over 7,000 GIS data layers and use them to construct maps and visualizations. The site also includes searchable profiles of community initiatives and peer learning forums.

• What is Weave, What Can it Do, and What is its Future?
  

Thursday, May 31, 2012
2:00pm EST

George Grinstein, Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Weave is an interactive web-based software system that links multiple visualizations (maps, charts, graphs, etc.) and computational tools (statistics, data mining, modeling and simulation). It was designed to provide easy access to existing datasets or simple upload of local data, allowing anyone to visualize any available data anywhere. Weave was developed with support from the Open Indicators Consortium (OIC) specifically to simplify the process of presenting and visualizing data. The 15 OIC member groups wanted a state-of-the-art high-performance web-based visualization system tailored to the needs of groups that analyze and share indicator data. Weave is now available to the public, free and open-source – one less barrier to the democratization of data. In this webinar we will show several examples of Weave, show what it can do and its flexibility in developing not just presentation visualizations but also exploratory ones. We will then show prototypes of future Weave features.

Nonmembers please use the Registration Options below: