Community Quality-of-Life Indicators, 1st ed. 2022
Best Cases IX
Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being Series

Coordinators: Ridzi Frank, Stevens Chantal, Wray Lyle

Language: English

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This volume continues the tradition now established since 2006, of compiling excellent research into the practice and application of community indicators in a single source volume. It focuses on the theme of the Community Indicators Consortium 2020 Summit, as a significant venue for the advancement of the practice and theory of community indicators work. It covers the conference's theme of ?community resilience?, which is the capacity of all of a community?s elements to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. 

In keeping with the practical, ?best cases? emphasis of this book series, the editors incorporate a case-based approach to chapters discussing how specific indicators, indices or series of indicators can lead to better decisions and outcomes to help communities adapt and transform in the face of challenges, helping them prepare for both the expected and the unexpected to sustain and improve quality of life, including technology and open source approaches to data sharing and data-focussed collaboration; evolving approaches that use shared indicators to improve overall community well-being and quality of life; research related to community indicators and policy, application, research, and/or practice; and techniques and approaches to measure resilience. 

This volume is of interest to social scientists, management professionals, social workers and policy makers working on various aspects of community indicators of quality of life and well-being.  

Chapter ?The Cost of Sea Level Rise for the Island Community of Vinalhaven, Maine: Spurring action through collaborative data analysis? is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see licence information in the chapters.


Part I: Everybody Counts

1.1         Noel Keough, Sustainable Calgary State of Our City Reporting: Pathways to a More Sustainable, Just and Resilient City

1.2         Donald Matteson & Tracy Sawicki, We Can’t Fix What We Don’t Know is Wrong: Developing Community Indicators for Often-Ignored Populations

1.3         Bijan Kimiagar, The most important voices are the ones we hear from the least: Community-based assessments in collaboration with families and community-based organizations

1.4         Terry S Atkinson & Kimberly L. Anderson, From Idea to Reality: Creating and Implementing an Early Literacy Action Plan With Community Partners    

Part II: Resilience Planning

2.1     Patrick Brixler, Community Resilience in Austin, Texas: Measuring social vulnerability and multi-hazard exposure to drive collective action

2.2     Lubaina Rangwala, Data-led Resilience Planning for Localised Action

2.3     Susie Maloney, Beyond a ‘tick-box approach’ for local government climate change adaptation: Learning through doing with M&E  

2.4     Meghan Gabil, The Cost of Sea Level Rise for Vinalhaven, ME: Spurring Action through Collaborative Data Analysis 

Part III: Aligning Community Indicators with Professional Standards

3.1     Patsy Kraeger, Rhonda Phillips and Frank Ridzi, The Community Foundation - Community Indicator Interface: Exploring Connections and Applications

3.2     Peg Thomas, Advancing SDG-Strategy 8.B.1 by Developing and Measuring the Impact of a Specific Youth Workforce Development Model Called Earn and Learn


Frank Ridzi is Vice President for Community Investment at the Central New York Community Foundation, Associate Professor of Sociology at Le Moyne College, former President of the Community Indicators Consortium Board and past President of the Literacy Funders Network, an affinity group of the Council on Foundations. He has helped to launch and lead community initiatives in areas such as increasing community literacy, reducing lead poisoning and addressing poverty and economic inclusion. He has been involved in launching Community Indicators efforts and has conducted research and written in the areas of collective impact, sociology of work, social policy and student affairs. His writings have appeared in such places as the Foundation Review, the Journal of Applied Social Sciences, the Journal of Organizational Change Management, and Review of Policy Research. Frank is the 2021 Winner of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Dorothy E. Smith Scholar-Activist Award.

Frank holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. He also carries a Certificate of Advanced Study in Women’s Studies. Prior to joining the Community Foundation, he served as Director for the Center of Urban and Regional Applied Research at Le Moyne College, where he still serves as Associate Professor and Department Chair of Sociology.

Chantal Stevens has been the executive director of the Community Indicators Consortium since 2013, having previously served on its board around its inception. She’s an experienced nonprofit manager and was the former executive director of Sustainable Seattle, a pioneer in the development of community indicators, the Starflower Foundation, and People for Salmon. More recently she has worked for King County as the oversight manager of the Countywide Community Forums and as a performance management analyst. She co-edited Community Qua

Includes timely research on cutting-edge practices in community well-being

Builds on the accumulating expertise of the Community Indicators Consortium.

Encapsulates key learnings from the field as best cases