data analysis & collection

Peg is a community indicator system for Winnipeg, tracking indicators that reflect and measure the city’s well being. An ongoing, community-driven process, Peg works to build knowledge that informs community decisions and policy.

This searchable database, created by the National Association of Counties, compiles green tools, practices, strategies, and projects for improving sustainability in communities and counties.

Spurred by a tragic fire in which much of the Island’s recorded history burned to the ground, the Swan’s Island Memory Project aims to revive recollections of the small Maine Island through recorded histories and historical photographs.

Cause Communications' Online Outreach Tools Guide identifies the benefits and drawbacks of specific online tools in aiding nonprofit communications at various stages in a planning or policy process.

This chapter in the Heart & Soul Handbook explains the steps necessary to perform a Community Network Analysis in a town, a process in which a community can identify formal and informal networks, stakeholder groups, and assets.

Open Town Hall is the most widely used public comment platform for governments. Open Town Hall differs from other web-based discussion platforms in catering to government, ensuring that the dialogue is legal and civil.

Peak Democracy is a non-partisan company whose mission is to augment community feedback to government leaders & build public trust in government via online public comment forums that are controlled, civil, fair, legal, insightful & cost-effective.

MindMixer is a “virtual town hall,” providing a forum for communities to share ideas, discuss, and create plans for the future. Without the time and place constraints, citizens can share ideas online, and leaders can gain input from their communities

The Atlas of Rural and Small Town America is an online mapping resource that displays county-level data on people, jobs, agriculture, and other county characteristics.

This handbook targets community leaders and provides specific information for how to work with the community to undertake three different Asset Mapping approaches: the Whole Assets approach, the Storytelling Approach, and the Heritage Approach.