Local Sites

• City of Spokane
  
• City of Spokane Valley
  
• Downtown Spokane
  
• Greater Spokane Incorporated
  Chamber of Commerce Website for the Spokane Region
• Inland Northwest Community Foundation
  
• Inland Northwest Land Trust
  
• Spokane County
  
• Spokane County United Way
  
• Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs (SNAP)
  
• Spokane Quality of Life
  Created with help from the Spokane Association of Realtors, this site focuses on quality of life issues in Spokane such as affordable housing.
• Spokane Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau
  
• Spokane Regional Health District
  The Community Health Assessment and Communicable Disease Epidemiology programs publish reports and fact sheets about community health issues, and track communicable diseases and many other health indicator statistics for Spokane County.
• Spokane Vitals
  A project of Greater Spokane Incorporated, this report benchmarks the Spokane region against 11 peer communities across the U.S. and was created to facilitate economic growth and development by identifying areas of challenge and opportunity.
• The Lands Council
  

Regional and Multi-County Sites

• Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
  A site offering detailed mapping of selected indicators for the entire state of California comes from UCLA's Advanced Policy Institute. It is the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge.
• Chelan Douglas Trends
  The Chelan Douglas Trends website was created by the same team responsible for the Spokane Community Indicators website and has similar goals and content that are important to the local community.
• EWU Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis
  The EWU Institute for Public Policy & Economic Analysis was created in 2002 to provide data and analysis about a variety of factors in the region that will be useful for businesses, communities and others as they plan for the future.
• Northwest Area Foundation
  A large site that covers an eight state area across the northern tier of the U.S., county by county, with selected indicators, comes from the Northwest Area Foundation.
• Oregon Progress Board
  The Oregon Progress Board offers a subset of the indicators on the Portland site for the entire state.
• Silicon Valley Index
  A relatively new site that has also served as a model for this version of the Spokane Community Indicators Initiative is the Silicon Valley Index.
• The Sightline Institute
  The Sightline Institute, formerly Northwest Environmental Watch, shows sophisticated interactive mapping capabilities for a multi-state area in the Pacific Northwest, extending into British Columbia.
• Walla Walla Trends
  A community indicators site containing information most important to the citizens of Walla Walla County. This site was developed by the same team that created the Spokane Community Indicators website.

National Sites & Consortia

• Community Indicators Consortium
  The national group of community indicators is the Community Indicators Consortium. This is great place to explore efforts across the country.
• Urban Institute
  A national clearing house site belongs to the Urban Institute, one of the leaders in the development of community indicators. It is the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership.

Sites Specific to an MSA or City

• Baltimore Neighborhood Indicator Alliance
  A site with an excellent focus on neighborhoods comes from Baltimore, MD., the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicator Alliance.
• Boston Indicators Project
  A model for this site has been the Boston Indicators Project, established and run by the Boston Foundation.
• Jacksonville Community Council
  Perhaps the oldest community indicators site comes from Jacksonville, Fl, Community Council.
• Portland Multnomah Progress Board
  The Portland Multnomah Progress Board, an undertaking of the City of Portland, has an extensive on-line site.
• Strategic Spartanburg
  Since 1987, the Spartanburg County Foundation's Community Indicator reports have effectively used data to raise awareness about the many issues impacting the growth, health, and quality of life of the citizens of Spartanburg.
• Sustainable Seattle
  Sustainable Seattle started in 1991 with an environmental focus but has broadened its look at indicators.

Analysis of Comprehensive Indicators

• Informing Our Nation - PDF
  For a recent study of the scope and impact of comprehensive community indicators, see the U.S. General Accounting Office report Informing Our Nation: Improving How to Understand & Assess the USA's Position & Progress.