PPMRN CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON COMMUNITY DATA USE
03.11.2010 // by: Elizabeth
Elizabeth Crews is the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Ochs Center of Metropolitan Studies. As an invitation to the 2010 Public Performance Measurement and Reporting Conference, she discusses the ways that public performance measurements can be useful to anyone interested in addressing community problems.
On March 18 and 19, the Public Performance Measurement and Reporting Network will be holdings its third national conference right here in Chattanooga. The conference—co-sponsored by the Ochs Center—will be an opportunity for scholars, practitioners and concerned citizens from around the nation to meet and discuss how performance measurement and reporting efforts can improve both government performance and quality of life.
For the last five years, with support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ochs Center has been working with local governments and community based organizations throughout the nation on issues related to local government performance measurement.
If you work with or for local governments, the Chattanooga conference is an opportunity to hear from national thought leaders on successful efforts to use metrics to drive better management. But part of the reason that we are co-hosting the conference is because we believe that non-profit and community based organizations can play a critical role in working with government partners to both collect data and use it to diagnose and solve pressing problems in communities.
In other words, this is about public performance measurement and reporting – not just government performance measurement. One person’s performance data may be another person’s community indicators. Besides, sometimes the best way to keep government upright is to lean on it from all side and often times community organizations, local foundations and United Ways – the partners of government who increasingly are relying on data to make decisions on their own investments – are among the best leaners.
I hope you will take a look at the conference schedule and consider joining us. It should be a great conference at an affordable cost.
Also, with generous support from the Sloan Foundation, the Ochs Center will be able to provide certain registration and travel subsidies for non-profit organizations.
For conference registration, click here. If you are interested in further details, please check out the PPMRN website or contact Elizabeth Crews at ecrews [at] ochscenter [dot] org.
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