Vital Signs – Our Community’s Annual Check-Up
. . . a catalyst for conversation . . . an opportunity to engage . . . .
Vital Signs is a community check-up that measures the health and vitality of Grande Prairie. While it celebrates our successes, it also tackles tough subjects, highlighting areas of real need in our city.
As a community foundation, it’s essential that if we are going to have a lasting impact today and into the future, we must dig deep to uncover the state of life in our community. Vital Signs helps us do this by providing us with an in-depth look at statistics and facts gathered from national and local sources.
Going one step further, however, Vital Signs seeks to uncover people’s perceptions about different issues. We know that perceptions can tell another part of the story and can very much play a role in our quality of life.
Vital Signs combines those perceptions with hard factual data to uncover the reality in our community.
A Link to Community Priorities
It is the role of the Community Foundation of Greater Grande Prairie to help define the needs that exist in our community, and better inform donors about issue areas and opportunities to make a difference. Vital Signs in a powerful tool that will help guide donors and improve our effectiveness as grant-makers.
The true value of Vital Signs is about making connections, generating discussion, building bridges and most of all taking action.
NEWS RELEASE, Grande Prairie May 4, 2011
Community Foundation Conducting Grande Prairie’s First Quality of Life Check Up
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