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Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Feb 27, 2008

  Comparing Measures of Sustainability of Nations
There's a working paper by J. Ram Pilarisetti and Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh called Sustainable Nations: What Do Aggregate Indicators Tell Us? The paper, published by the Tinbergen Institute in the Netherlands, examines the different results achieved when using three common measures of nation...... [view]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Dec 12, 2007

  The Science of Indicators
I'd like you to take a moment and read this article by Mallen Baker on indicators and communication. It comes from a business perspective rather than a community perspective, but the processes and principles should seem really familiar. In the article, called " Responsibility reporting –...... [view]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Dec 7, 2007

  Using Indicators in Memphis
I ran across this blog article from Memphis and enjoyed its call to action on community indicators. From A Field Guide to Urban Memphis : part of the problem is the one of the mosquito in the nudist colony... where to start? part of the problem is connecting people in need with...... [view]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Nov 28, 2007

  Community-Level Child Indicators
News from Child Trends: November 28, 2007 Fall Newsletter Focuses on Community-Level Child Indicators The Fall 2007 issue of The Child Indicator focuses on community-level child indicators. It includes articles on: Chapin Hall report on the value of local data for programs...... [view]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Oct 17, 2007

  Cleaner Air in Pittsburgh?
For those of you who went to the Community Indicators Consortium conference in Jacksonville, Florida (conference proceedings available here ), you'll remember meeting John Craig from Pittsburgh Today . This is an interesting regional indicators effort that's getting some local recognition....... [view]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Oct 12, 2007

  Measuring Racial Disparities
On April 16, 1963, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote the following in a Letter from the Birmingham Jail : “ In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: 1) collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; 2) negotiation; 3) self-purification; and 4) direct action...... [view]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2007

  Indicators of Nonprofit Impact
Many of us have tried to find a good indicator or two that describes the nonprofit sector in our community. We try surveys of volunteer activity , measures of philanthropic donations (sometimes from self-reports from federated campaigns, sometimes through IRS records .) Every now and then we...... [view]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Sep 21, 2007

  Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
This is less a book review of Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes than it is a review of reviews of the book (you do that, don't you -- read a bunch of different reviewers opine all around a book before reading it?) In this case, the book seems too interesting to...... [view]
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