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Calgary's Vital Signs Report: Measuring the Vitality of the City

The Calgary Foundation's annual Vital Signs report provides a comprehensive assessment of the city's quality of life, highlighting trends and areas of improvement. It includes citizen grades, priorities, and expert research.

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Calgary's Vital Signs Report: Measuring the Vitality of the City

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  1. Calgary’s 2015 Vital Signs Report

  2. CALGARYFOUNDATION • 2014-15 Fast Facts • $59.9 million received in new gifts • $47.3 million granted to 900 charitable organizations • $834.4 million asset base • 47 new funds established • Primary endowment portfolio – 10 year return was 7.6% versus a benchmark return of 6.7%; 1 year return was 13.1% versus a benchmark return 10.2% calgaryfoundation.org

  3. Three key roles: Support donors’ philanthropic goals Make effective grants across the charitable sector Provide community leadership calgaryfoundation.org

  4. COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE • How the Calgary Foundation’s community knowledge is collected: • community consultations and 60 years working with the nonprofit sector • Community Knowledge Centre charitable organization members • from Vital Signs survey results and annual community issue research calgaryfoundation.org

  5. History of Vital Signs • Conducted in Calgary since 2007, and our 10th Anniversary year is 2016 • The need for a quality of life assessment was identified by the Mayor of Toronto in 2006, who believed Toronto Foundation was the organization that was a natural fit to conduct such an assessment • It has since grown into an international movement of cities that participate. calgaryfoundation.org

  6. What is Vital Signs? • An annual community check-up that measures the vitality of Calgary, identifies significant trends and assigns grades across areas critical to quality of life. • Why Vital Signs? • A community engagement tool that inspires citizens to take meaningful action. calgaryfoundation.org

  7. Structure • Overview of Calgary’s past, present and future • 7 Vital Foundations: Arts, Living Standards, Thriving Populations, Environment, Lifelong Learning, Community Connections and Wellness • Snapshots of research and trends • Profiled organizations doing great work in the different vital foundations • Community knowledge initiatives showcase • Citizen priorities and grades calgaryfoundation.org

  8. CALGARY ON THE WORLD STAGE • Calgary 5th most livable city in the world in 2014 • Calgary cleanest city in the world: • Calgary 33rd in the world for quality of life • Calgary 2nd out of 50 cities for attractiveness to migrants • Calgary 3rd in global prosperity behind only Paris and Stockholm • Calgary best sport city out of 30 global cities • Calgary dropped from #2 to #19 best place to live calgaryfoundation.org

  9. HOWVITALSIGNSADDSUP: Citizen Grades Citizen Priorities Issue Research and Trends Calgary’s Vital Signs Report calgaryfoundation.org

  10. ONLINE CITIZEN SURVEY • Grading was open from May 20 – June 26 • Respondents have the option to answer a long or short version of the survey • 70% of respondents elected to take the long version and 30% opted for the short version • 1,819 respondents answered five questions or more generating a statistically valid survey response calgaryfoundation.org

  11. ONLINE CITIZEN SURVEY • 62% female, 38% male • 60% of respondents were aged 25 – 64 • 45% of respondents work in the business sector, 20% in government, 13% in voluntary sector, 12% retired, 5% students and 3% unemployed • 39% of respondents live in the SW, 30 % NW, 17% SE and 11% NE calgaryfoundation.org

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  13. Online Survey Questions • Overall Grades • Issue Area Citizen priorities • Comments • Quality of life: • Overall grade • Satisfaction scale • Improvements and declines • Comments • Demographics calgaryfoundation.org

  14. EXPERTRESEARCHANDTRENDS • A range of Calgary organizations and institutions provide research to ensure that the indicators used are relevant, accurate and comprehensive • Centre for the Study of Living Standards provided additional indicator data calgaryfoundation.org

  15. GRADING AT A GLANCE • Overall quality of Life: B (2014 B) • Arts: B (2014 B) • *Living Standards: C+(2014 B-) • *Thriving Populations: C+(2014 B-) • Environment: B- (2014 B-) • Community Connections: B- (2014 B-) • Lifelong Learning: B- (2014 B-) • Wellness: B- (2014 B-) calgaryfoundation.org

  16. OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE B (2014 B) • 69% describe themselves as happy • 69% feel, at least, moderately stressed about personal finances • 69% feel that Calgarians do enough to welcome new Canadians, while 24% feel uncomfortable, at least sometimes, as a result of discrimination • 55% feel they know their neighbours well enough to seek help calgaryfoundation.org

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