4th Compact
Community-wide Indicators
Truckee Meadows Tomorrow (TMT) launched its fourth quality of life compact in May 2003 with the United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra (UWNNS) to address all 30 of TMT’s quality of life indicators. United Way worked with its funded partner agencies over 2-years to identify and address community-wide needs, tieing nearly $1 million in community funding to outcomes and indicators relating to quality of life.
The compact also surfaced emerging quality of life issues. The two agencies have been longstanding supporters of each other being as both share similar missions of improving the area’s quality of life. Although the compact ended May 2005, UWNNS is extending its evaluation model to create a new Community Learning Model where partner agencies identify the indicators they are affecting through almost $1 million in annual UWNNS funding, as well as the beneficial impacts as a result of their activities for clients served and the community. Compact results indicated that UWNNS partner agencies use of TMT’s quality of life indicators through June 2006, in addition to many other reported indicators and outcomes. These results were also used by TMT’s Quality of Life Task Force in 2005, as part of the process to update all the community indicators.
Year-1 Outputs: 170 individuals completed Advanced Outcomes Training, being exposed to TMT’s quality of life indicators—what they are and how to tie these indicators back to important work done everyday with UWNNS partern agency clients.
- - 10 UWNNS staff
- 31 UWNNS volunteers
- 99 UWNNS funded partner agency staff
- 5 TMT volunteers
- 25 social workers
Year-2 Outputs
- - 36 funded UWNNS partner agencies in Washoe County participated
- All 36 successfully utilized a new reporting matrix for better understanding of community-wide indicators
- Agencies selected 24 of TMT’s 30 indicators for improvement
- All 36 were formally invited to adopt TMT indictors; 18 were already TMT adopters and reaffirmed their adoptions; 2 made new adoptions
- Agencies applied their learning to raise new/increased funds
- UWNNS and TMT learned about new measures perceived to be important within these organizations
For more information on the Comprehensive Community Indicators Compact, contact:
Karen Barsell, United Way of Northern Nevada & the Sierra