Making Municipal Governments More Responsive to Their Citizens
Ted Greenwood, Program Director
Selected Projects to Promote Performance Measurement and Reporting
In the following table, * indicates a program supported by an Officer Grant.
# indicates Alfred P. Sloan Foundation support for the program is complete.
Institution |
Purpose |
Contact Person |
| Encouraging GASB to Promote Citizen-Informed Performance Measurement & Reporting | ||
To support AGA’s promotion of citizen-informed performance measurement and reporting |
Ms. Evie Barry |
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Urban Institute (with the Council of State Governments) |
To launch a project for public reporting of comparative performance information of state agencies, with citizen input. |
Mr. Harry Hatry Mr. Michael Robinson |
To create a group of government managers that have adopted and will promote citizen-informed performance measurement and reporting |
Ms. Barbara Cohn |
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To increase the relevance to potential users of Canadian Public Performance Reports and to infuse the experience of the CCAF-FCVI into the work of GASB in the United States |
Mr. Geoffrey Dubrow |
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| Engaging with Government Officials to Encourage Citizen-Informed Performance Measurement and Reporting | ||
To create and try out on local elected officials new educational and training materials on performance measurement |
Mr. Harry Hatry Mr. Christopher Hoene |
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To fund the research leading to the publication of a State and Local Performance Measurement Sourcebook. |
Ms. Anne Kinney |
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To help fund a Leadership Seminar that will include performance measurement and reporting as a major component |
Mr. Scott Pattison |
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To help the Institute of Internal Auditors further strengthen and expand auditors’ roles in government performance measurement and reporting |
Mr. Albert Holzinger |
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To support the AGA’s new Citizen-Centric Government Reporting |
Ms. Susan Fritzlen |
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| Building a Community of Practitioners and Infrastructure | ||
To continue implementing citizen-based municipal government performance measurement and reporting around the country |
Ms. Barbara Cohn |
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National Center for Public Productivity, Rutgers University-Newark |
To launch a network of performance measurement and reporting practitioners with the National Center for Public Productivity as its Secretariat. |
Dr. Marc Holzer |
To launch the Southeastern Practitioners’ Network on Local government Performance Measurement |
Mr. David Eichenthal |
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To add citizen-informed performance measurement to the Florida Benchmarking Consortium |
Ms. Marilyn Crotty |
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To partially fund a regional meeting of people working on performance measures and community indicators and to launch an ongoing network of such people |
Ms. Chantal Stevens |
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To help launch a network of performance measurement and reporting practicioners in the states of Iowa and Minnesota |
Ms. Jennifer Blanchard |
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To partially fund a conference sponsored by the Community Indicators Consortium |
Mr. Benjamin Warner |
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To continue the development of eTownPanel, an Internet-based panel survey of citizen satisfaction with their local government |
Dr. Gregg Van Ryzin |
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To enable the National Center for Public Productivity to launch on online certificate in Public Performance Measurement: Citizen-Driven Government Improvement |
Dr. Marc Holzer |
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To create, disseminate and promote curricular material related to citizen-based performance assessment of local government services |
Dr. Marc Holzer |
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Citizen-Based and Citizen-Informed Performance Measurement and Reporting Projects |
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To support the Benchmarking Component of the Pioneer Institute’s Middle Cities Initiative |
Ms. Amy Dain |
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To help launch the New England States Performance measurement Pilot Project |
Ms. Lisa Parker |
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To bring citizen-informed performance measurement and reporting to cities in North Carolina |
Mr. Lee Mandell |
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To launch the use of ComNET in Des Moines. |
Ms. Amy Rodman |
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To add a strong citizen component to ongoing performance measurement and reporting in Chattanooga |
Dr. David Eichenthal |
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To continue and further institutionalize the Transit Performance Measurement Project |
Mr. Gene Russianoff |
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New Yorkers for Parks # |
To enable New Yorkers for Parks to develop and institutionalize a Community Report Card for neighborhood parks in New York City |
Mr. Christian DiPalermo |
To enable the Governmental and Nonprofit Assistance Center of Radford University to identify performance measures that would provide meaningful comparisons among Virginia’s local and county governments and to make them available on the Center’s website |
Dr. Bruce Chase |
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To continue support for and assist in the institutionalization of citizen-based performance assessment in the City of Worcester, MA |
Dr. Roberta Schaefer |
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To renew support for and assist in the institutionalization of an Internet-based service requests system and citizen-based performance measurement and reporting in Connecticut and beyond |
Mr. Michael Meotti |
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To continue support for and assist in the institutionalization of an internet-based forum for citizen-based performance assessment of and information about New York City public schools |
Ms. Pamela Wheaton |
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To renew support for and assist in the institutionalization of ParkScan, citizen-based performance assessment of neighborhood parks in San Francisco |
Ms. Isabel Wade |
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To support and assist in the institutionalization of performance measurement to improve the quality of life in Seattle’s neighborhoods |
Ms. Chantal Stevens |
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| Using the Media | ||
To enable Governing Magazine to continue a multi-media publishing program on performance measurement in government |
Ms. Elder Witt |
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To enable Gotham Gazette to continue advancing public knowledge of and support for performance measurement and reporting in New York City |
Mr. Dick Dadey |
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| Other High Leverage Projects | ||
To produce a special issue of National Civic Review addressing citizen-informed and citizen-based performance measurement and reporting. |
Mr. Derek Okubo |
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