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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases II, 23–42. © 2006 Springer. Printed in The Netherlands. 24 CHARLOTTE KAHN stakeholders and experts across sectors, issuing a comprehensive online report and a hard-copy summary every 2 years, building a network of engaged stakeholders, and driving a civic agenda is just too broad in scope and too subject to the whims of funding and politics to succeed. Because of this challenge, it is fair to say that the project exists in large part due to the long-term commitment of its partners and participants.
For example, the year in which a major report is released as an updated website with an accompanying summary report in hard copy is much more expensive than the off year in the project’s biennial cycle. While the project director is directly accountable to the leadership and board of the Boston Foundation, ongoing work is also guided by the cochairs and members of a diverse, cross-sectoral leadership group of about 30 active participants. In addition to the leadership group, core project participants include more than 300 people who developed the initial indicators framework, about 250 stakeholders and experts convened biennially by sector, with cochairs who facilitate the session and review results and findings, and scores of data providers.
City, state, and federal agency staff, community-based organizations, civic institutions, university-centered research institutes, and independent think tanks have all contributed their research and data. All have participated in convenings and for dialogue, deliberation, and reflection about current trends and effective strategies to attain long-term goals. ” In that spirit, the project seeks to build consensus, or at least broad support, for a set of goals, or agenda, items against which progress can be methodically tracked through 2030.