CKX - Measuring What Matters: Early Adopters of the CIW (Ontario Trillium Foundation)
How do you measure what matters in your community? Rather than starting from scratch, one approach that’s gaining traction is using shared impact measurement tools like the Canadian Index of Wellbeing. Hang on a second. What’s the Canadian Index of Wellbeing? First and foremost, the CIW is a big idea that regards wellbeing as encompassing a wide variety of aspects of life, beyond economic measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It’s also a tool that is measuring what matters to Canadians. It tracks wellbeing from year to year in an effort to offer clear, effective, and regular information on the quality of life of all Canadians. In a series of Pecha-Kucha style presentations (each limited to 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide), you’ll learn how five organizations across Canada are working with the Canadian Index of Wellbeing to measure what matters in their communities. The presenters include: Dan Wilson, Director, Policy, Planning and Performance, Ontario Trillium Foundation Robert Janus, Director of Communications, Victoria Foundation Barbara Powell, General Manager of Community Engagement, City of Guelph Nancy Mattes, Director, Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo Denise C. Squire, Executive Director, Woolwich Community Health Centre After the rapid-fire overview, you’ll have a chance to take a bit of a deeper dive in a series of group discussions led by our presenters as we unpack the challenges of measuring impact and the potential benefits of shared or common measurement frameworks like the Canadian Index of Wellbeing.
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CKX - Measuring What Matters: Early Adopters of the CIW (Ontario Trillium Foundation)
- 1. Director, Policy, Planning & Performance
- 3. Photo credit: Lending Memo
- 4. How will our next $1B investment improve Ontario communities?
- 5. Define more specifically the ultimate impact we are striving towards Clarify how we will define success Develop evidence-based strategies to focus our grant-making to achieve our intended impact
- 6. CIW helps us define what makes communities healthy & vibrant
- 12. Sense of Belonging Developmental Domains Social & Emotional Competencies Ecological Footprint 8 Community Vitality 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 Environ-ment 8 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Time Use 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 4 Leisure & Culture 5 6 7 8 3 1 2 3 Education 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Living Standards 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 Healthy Populations 5 6 7 8 2 1 3 1 Democratic Engagement 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Participation In Organized Activities High School Completion % with Diabetes Economic Security Index Physical Activity Arts & Culture Activities Low-income Canadian Living Planet Index
- 13. … and looking for movement on 12 related CIW indicators to understand long-term impact Avg. monthly frequency of participation in physical activity >15 minutes % with self-reported diabetes Fostering more active lifestyles % reporting participation in organized activities % reporting very or somewhat strong sense of belonging to community Building inclusive and engaged communities together Ecological Footprint Canadian Living Planet Index Encouraging people to support a healthy and sustainable environment % children doing well on 5 developmental domains Avg. of 5 social & emotional competence scores, 12-13 year olds % of 20-24 year olds completing high school Supporting the positive development of children and youth % of persons in low income Scaled value of CSLS economic security index Enhancing people’s economic wellbeing Avg. % of time spent on the previous day in arts and culture activities Enriching people’s lives through arts, culture and heritage
- 15. Seed Grants Grow Grants Capital Grants Collective Impact Grants
- 17. Interest in CIW-based measurement is growing at the municipal and sectoral level
Editor's Notes
- Our mission is to help build healthy and vibrant communities across Ontario through our investments in community-based initiatives by not-for-profit organizations. My very first day on the job here I was asked by a Board member, “What do we mean by ‘healthy and vibrant communities’, and how will we know when we see it?” That was in the Spring of 2006…
- 2007-08 – OTF began looking for ways to more clearly define, measure and report on what we mean by “healthy and vibrant communities. 2009-10 – OTF undertook research, stakeholder convening and staff consultations to review community indicators relevant to measuring OTF’s impact more effectively
- In 2012 we were audited by the Auditor General – received a favorable audit, however there were areas of improvement noted, among them developing additional assessment criteria to ensure that the initiatives funded are those that will have the greatest community impact.
- So we asked ourselves, as Canada’s largest granting foundation, we award around $110M to about 1,300 organizations every year, over the next decade, we’ll invest $1 billion in Ontario’s public benefit sector. So by 2025, how will we know the health and vibrancy of Ontario communities have improved as the result of the $1B investment? With this ‘billion dollar question’ in mind, we looked for ways to better know the impact of our investments
- CIW emerged as a valid and reliable model for measuring what makes communities “healthy” and “vibrant”
- 2012-13 OTF commissions and partners with CIW on the first provincial report CFC (with OTF involvement) funds first CIW model at the municipal level – www.guelphwellbeing.ca OTF funds first sector-based use of CIW – AOHC OTF and CFC partner to advance a shared measurement approach based on the CIW framework – CKX
- Results received
- Looking more deeply at some trends, which domains are going up or down, focusing on areas that are aligned with OTF’s mission, we hope that they can help us find the right fit between CIW and what the Foundation is in the best position to achieve
- … identify our investment priorities in each of the four sectors that we fund – Arts and Culture, Human and Social Services, Sports and Recreation, and the Environment – and in the Not-for-Profit and Voluntary sector as a whole in Ontario
- We also hope to use the CIW to help us measure our long-term success in certain areas tied to our mission CIW offers valid and reliable measures for what Canadians have identified what defines community wellbeing. Using the CIW model can advance our Foundation’s goals to achieve impact and demonstrate value for money in our efforts to build healthy and vibrant communities.
- What’s our theory?
- CIW Indicators aren’t all a clear fit with our work Long-term sustainability of CIW
- Granting opportunities
- Strategic partnership opportunities to lead advancements in shared measurement among funders and grantees.
- Shared measurement Community of Practice Collective Impact Shared responsibility & sustainability for the Index
- “… I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship…”