| Mission
Statement
The Community Foundation's Civic Forum promotes
healthy decision making that will sustain the environmental
quality, livability, and economic vibrancy of Boulder
County.
The Civic Forum:
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Articulates a vision
for healthy Boulder County communities |
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Measures progress
through a biennial Community Indicators Report and
an updated website |
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Informs and educates
the general public about issues of interest and
concern |
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Identifies opportunities for
strategic action |
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Convenes dialogues and partnerships
to address key issues |
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Assesses the impact of these action |
Building Our Healthy Community
The Community Foundation tracks Boulder County's progress
toward building a healthy community through focusing
on community indicators in 7 key areas:
A Healthy Community:
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Meets the basic needs of its PEOPLE. |
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Promotes HEALTH
AND HUMAN SERVICES. |
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Creates quality EDUCATION
and learning opportunities for all ages. |
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Ensures a vibrant and diversified ECONOMY. |
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Acts as a steward toward sustaining
a healthy ENVIRONMENT. |
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Provides broad access to ARTS
AND CULTURE. |
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Fosters strong and connected CIVIC
PARTICIPATION AND GIVING. |
WHAT ARE COMMUNITY
INDICATORS?
Very simply, indicators are pieces of information that
tell us something about the status of a larger system.
Many kinds of indicators are used to inform many different
kinds of decisions. Community indicators reflect the
status of a community's health and quality of life.
In order to know if we're heading in a desired direction,
we need some guides to show us the way.
Indicators are a tool for helping us understand
ourselves as a community. They can aid citizens, policy
makers, government agencies, the media, businesses and
community activists in identifying and exploring the
relationships among a wide range of community health
trends and conditions.
The indicators used in our report and throughout
this website were selected out of a broad, community-based
process that engaged 400 Boulder County leaders, policymakers,
business people, and neighbors over 10 years ago. This
dedicated group outlined four visions for Boulder County
(see: History of the Civic Forum). They also selected
50 community indicators to track over time.
The Civic Forum continues to track these
50 indicators each year, while adding new indicators
as they become available, to provide longitudinal data
on Boulder County and to help inform our community on
how we are doing. The indicators give us an idea of
where we've been, where we are now, and what may lie
ahead.
The indicators are organized into 7 core
areas and reflect the visions established by the Civic
Forum founders and the areas in which The Community
Foundation makes grants. We acknowledge that these indicators
do not give the complete picture. Rather they attempt
to give a broad overview of our community's health,
while reflecting the practical limitations of the data
available for collection. The data contained here is
almost entirely quantitative, meaning it's measured
in numbers, though we all know much of what makes up
a community is qualitative.
Community Foundation
Since 1999 the Civic Forum has operated as a program
of The Community Foundation. We officially moved in-house
in the summer of 2006 in an effort to strengthen the
connection between the research done for the report
and the programmatic work of The Community Foundation.
Boulder County Civic Forum Director:
Morgan Rogers
Morgan Rogers joined the foundation staff in early 2002
after receiving her BS in Business Administration and
Marketing from Georgetown University. She spent three
years serving first as Programs Associate and later
as Director of Programs. Morgan left Boulder in August
of 2004 to pursue her Masters in Public Health from
San Diego State University, researching community health
and obesity prevention with Latino families along the
San Diego/Mexico border. She also worked for the Institute
of Public Health, an organization specializing in policy
evaluation. While in graduate school Morgan spent two
summers in Oaxaca, Mexico learning Spanish and working
with indigenous populations on behavioral health risks.
Morgan returned to Boulder County and The Community
Foundation in the spring of 2006 and now serves as Director
of the Boulder County Civic Forum.
Telephone Morgan at 303-442-0436, ext. 115; or e-mail
her at
The Civic Forum is grateful for the guidance
and wisdom of The Community Foundation's Trustees serving
on its Advisory Committee:
| Josie Heath, President |
| Benita Duran, Chair |
| Bob Morehouse, Secretary |
| Richard Cross, OD |
| Robin Luff |
| Jane McConnell |
| Jill Stravolemos |
In addition, we sincerely appreciate
the ongoing support of the Civic Forum Executive Committee:
| John Sackett (Chair) |
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CEO, Avista Adventist Hospital,
Chair |
| DeAnne Butterfield |
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Former Civic Forum Director |
| Michael Caplan |
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Facilitation Consultant, Caplan & Company |
| Mitchell Carson |
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President and CEO, Longmont United Hospital |
| Susan Foster |
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Associate Director, Education and Outreach,
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| Barrie Hartman |
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Journalist |
| Josie Heath |
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President, The Community Foundation Serving
Boulder County |
| Katherine Kramer |
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Executive Director, Sand Creek Greenway Partnership |
| Ron Secrist |
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President, Boulder Community Hospital |
| Chuck Stout |
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Executive Director, Boulder County Public Health |
| John Tayer |
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Community Relations Manager, Roche Colorado
Corporation |
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