1. Community-Level Indicators

2. Why should you use community-level indicators?
Help to find out how your goals affect your community
Provide "bottom-line" evidence of impact of the initiative
Help determine the effects of key components of the initiative
Help push issues to the forefront of the public agenda

3. Community-level indicators can help secure more support for the initiative
Indicators must be:
Available
Accurate
Possible to collect
Relevant

4. Data Steps Secure data from relevant local and state agencies
Summarize and graph the data
Present the data to community leadership, trustees, and funders
Use the data to push the issue on the public agenda and to redirect the initiative's efforts