Community Indicator System Related Links

Useful CIS-related Links

 * Vital Signs - Canada: http://www.vitalsignscanada.ca/index-e.html
 * From Deepak's meeting with David Eaves yesterday it appears there's an angle here to play with right movers and shakers and there's 16 Canadian cities involved - see Participating Communities http://www.vitalsignscanada.ca/nr-2009-index-e.html

http://www.vitalsignscanada.ca/contact-us-e.html National Program Contact Cindy Lindsay, Director of Member Services Community Foundations of Canada 519.843.6726 clindsay@cfc-fcc.ca
 * Best resource page; related Links Complementary Indicator Initiatives: http://www.vitalsignscanada.ca/related-links-e.html
 * Developing Civic Indicators, esp this one by Paul Reed: http://www.cedworks.com/benchmarks.html
 * U.S. City and County Web Data API is a geographic names data set that provides a "mashup" of URLs for official city and county government web sites and city and county location data from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). GNIS data includes incorporated places, census designated areas, unincorporated places, counties, and populated places
 * 2007 Governments Integrated Directory (GID) (GID) contains name, unique identification code, and other reference information about all local governments and dependent school systems in the United States, as enumerated for the 2007 Census of Governments. The GID is the master list of all governments in the United States, and is used in the Census Bureau's government statistical programs
 * http://www.informationneeds.org/
 * UserVoice is the leading SaaS solution for online constituent feedback and idea management. Since launching a year ago, UserVoice has helped over 32,000 organizations turn feedback into actionable ideas and happier, more engaged users. This simple solution lets you engage your citizens and garner support when you have difficult decisions. The implementation is quick and easy; embed the application, or point constituents to your UserVoice forum and let them vote up the top issues. UserVoice reduces the time and labor cost of collecting feedback while simultaneously increasing awareness and citizen engagement within your community
 * Sustainable Communities Network tracks communities throughout the United States and the rest of the world that are undertaking indicators initiatives
 * Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives is a comprehensive site jointly sponsored by a number of organizations, it provides information on indicator projects at the international, national, and provincial/state/territorial levels
 * CitiesPLUS30 is an urban sustainability project for 30 cities sharing tools and experiences to implement long-term plans that integrate environmental, social, and economic well-being. Conducted by the International Centre for Sustainable Cities located in Vancouver, British Columbia
 * http://www.rprogress.org/sustainability_indicators/community_indicators.htm#cihb
 * Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Quality of Life Reporting System. This group, with 1,035 participating member municipalities across Canada
 * Communities Count Indicators
 * The Sustainable Community Indicators Program (SCIP). Environment Canada (www.ec.gc.ca) has http://ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=A073189E-1
 * https://www.truckeemeadowstomorrow.org/indicators/42
 * https://www.truckeemeadowstomorrow.org/indicator_list
 * http://www.planning.org/pas/reports/subscribers/pdf/PAS517.pdf
 * http://www.sdi.gov/example.htm
 * http://www.sdi.gov/ (Sustainability Development Indicators; Brand Niemann)
 * National Neighborhood Indicators Project http://www2.urban.org/nnip/
 * http://www2.urban.org/nnip/publications.html
 * With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Urban Institute and GeoLytics, Inc., a private firm specializing in the development of demographic and geographic data products, have produced a new data resource that will enable policy makers, community organizations, and researchers to examine and analyze changes that have occurred in U.S. neighborhoods over the past three decades. The Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB) combines tract-level data from the 1970 - 2000 decennial censuses into one easy-to-use product. It is literally the only source of census data with variables and tract boundaries that are consistently defined across census years. See http://www2.urban.org/nnip/ncua/ncdb.html
 * NCDB can be purchased from http://www.geolytics.com/USCensus,Neighborhood-Change-Database-1970-2000,Products.asp ($1600 for single user; not sure of licensing)
 * The complete NCDB Data Users Guide is available here in PDF.
 * Appendix A: State Codes
 * Appendix B: County Codes
 * Appendix C: Metropolitan Area Codes
 * Appendix D: Aggregation Error for New England Metro Areas and for Places
 * Appendix E: Data Dictionary
 * Appendix F: Census Source Tabulation Matrices - 1970
 * Appendix G: Census Source Tabulation Matrices - 1980
 * Appendix H: Census Source Tabulation Matrices - 1990
 * Appendix I: Census Source Tabulation Matrices - 2000
 * Appendix J: Description of Tract Remapping Methodology