Empower Your Leaders • Funders • Donors • Planners • Service Providers • Citizens

Use your indicator project to understand and address community problems and build on your strengths

Options

• Focus on your community’s strengths and challenges – Choose from 200 indicators covering arts, culture and leisure; children and youth; community engagement; demographics; economy; education; environment; financial self-sufficiency; health; housing; public safety; technology; transportation
• Select meaningful comparisons – nation, state and comparable counties

Distinguishing Features

• Accessible information – appealing home page and user-friendly navigation throughout the site
• Dependable information – reliable sources presented in context
• Broad issue analysis – with both an overview and an assessment of trends by area (e.g., public safety, health)
• Downloadable charts and tables – dynamic charting displays data trends over time and across geographies, charts can be customized in real time
• Peer comparisons for context – show how your community performs versus peer communities, the state and U.S.
• Quarterly updates – users have most up-to-date information that’s available
• Local flavor – your profile features photos of your community and your sponsor logo(s)

Built-in Support

• Profile website hosting – we manage the entire process
• Launch assistance – we offer tips for your launch, present at launch event(s), and provide advice on on-going promotion and maintaining interest in the site over time
• Your_community_profile.org – we work with you to acquire a domain name

Taking it Further

• Blogs – experienced CGR staff can support your efforts to build a community presence, using data from your profile as the catalyst
• In-depth analysis / research – to learn more about your key area(s) of focus or concern