Sitka: The Island Institute. Developed Indicators of Community Sustainability, A Profile of Community Well-Being which contains information on 32 indicators in the areas of population characteristics, the economy, environmental issues, schools, social and health concerns, and crime.

• Mobile: Mobile United. Sponsored a visioning process and produced an indicator report for Mobile and Baldwin Counties entitled Progress Indicators for Coastal Alabama: Benchmarks for Envision Mobile-Baldwin, 1998 Edition. Ph. 334-432-1638. A web site is under development.

Arizona

• Tucson: City of Tucson. Developed Livable Tucson Vision Program which includes a definition of each of Tucson's 17 goals and key indicators of progress.

  Phoenix: Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Released I998 Report with nine categories of indicators entitled What Matters in Greater Phoenix, 1998 Edition: Indicators of Our Quality of Life.

• Los Angeles: Southern California Association of Governments. Reports available on the State of the Region, including a number of different topics.

• Santa Barbara: Community Environmental Council. Developed a 1998/1999 report entitled Santa Barbara South Coast Community Indicators Report which describes the results from the Sustainability Indicator Program. This program has 37 indicators divided into three categories: economy & meeting material necessities, environment & use of resources, and community & culture.

• San Diego: Quality of Life Project. This project for the San Diego Region represents a new, participatory approach to public services strategic planning, interagency coordination, and improved access by communities to regional data.

• Santa Monica: Sustainable City Program. The City of Santa Monica has developed a set of policies and several documents including a list of indicators for measuring the city's progress.Additional information is available.

• San Jose - Silicon Valley: Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network . Released the 2000 annual report measuring progress toward 17 goals for the economy, environment, society and regional stewardship established in Silicon Valley 2010: A Regional Framework for Growing Together.

• San Mateo County Indicators of Sustainability: Tides Center. Provides an annual report card for San Mateo County entitled Indicators For A Sustainable San Mateo County, A Report Card of Our County's Quality of Life. The report analyzes the sustainability of San Mateo County's quality of life through the use of over thirty indicators. Additional information is available.

• Silicon Valley: Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership Released a report entitled 1999 Environmental Index, which includes indicators on resource use, population, air and water quality, species and habitat, and hazardous materials.

• San Francisco: Sustainable San Francisco. Developed the 1996 Sustainability Plan for the City and County of San Francisco as a community collaborative effort to set goals for future environmental, economic, and societal well being. This report includes ten topics of environmental concern, five topics of concern spanning many issues, and over 50 indicators to monitor trends in these areas of concern. Additional information is available.

• Boulder County: Boulder County Healthy Communiites Initiative. In Summer 1998, published the Quality of Life in Boulder County 1998 - A Community Indicators Report which contains 34 indicators, including 12 on People, 8 on Environment, 7 on Economy, and 7 on Culture & Society. The environmental portion of the report is available on line.

• Gunnison County: High Country Citizens' Alliance. Working with Gunnison County to define and measure the County's environmental, social, and economic well being. Plan to publish a report of their findings.

• New Haven: On Line Community Data Project. The project's is building a tool that permits agencies and individuals to easily share data pertaining to the improvement of the New Haven community. It is also intended to provide a "community memory" for data.

• Metro Washington: Community Indicators Project: The Project continues to develop a network, as well as a methodological framework, philosophy and bottom-up process for supporting sustainable community development efforts. Ten areas of focus have been identified.

• Tampa-Hillsborough County: Florida Center for Community Design. Created a report entitled "Hillsborough Community Vision" to support the Hillsborough Tomorrow visioning process. The report contains indicators, benchmarks, and side by side comparisons.

• Jacksonville: Jacksonville Community Council. Report Quality of Life in Jacksonville: Indicators for Progress 2001 includes graphs of trends for most indicators for most years since 1983. One of the longest running community indicator projects, the Jacksonville effort has served as a model for many communities.

• Orlando: Healthy Community Initiative of Central Florida: Developed Legacy 2000, a report containing an index of sustainability as well as 27 indicators for the environment, the economy, individual's well-being and social fabric of the community.

• Kaua`i: Ho`okipa Network of Community-Based Organizations:
  Includes a description of what sustainability means in a traditional culture as well as a look at the available data and what it says about the long term sustainability of the island of Kaua'i.

Illinois

• Chicago: Chicago Community Trust - Chicago Matters. Chicago Matters is an annual public information series initiated and funded by The Chicago Community Trust, in collaboration with the Chicago Public Library, WTTW Channel 11, WBEZ Chicago’s public radio station 91.5 FM, and The Chicago Reporter. Chicago Matters is designed to enhance public understanding about issues of broad concern. The series partners have provided in-depth programs and reports about such topics as racism, violence, children at risk, immigration, work and health.

Indiana

• Hamilton County: Hamilton County Alliance. Provides quality of life benchmark indicators for Hamilton County, a suburban county in Greater Indianapolis.

• Indianapolis-Central Indiana: Central Indiana Regional Citizens League. In the process of exploring the development of a Quality of Life Index for the Central Indiana Region using a region-wide collaboration process.

• Pottawattamie County: United Way of the Midlands. Report with indicators entitled Tri-County Human Care Profile.

• Western Maine: Sustain Western Maine and Western Mountains Alliance: Commissioned the development of a report with indicators entitled Indicators of Sustainable Development: Franklin County 1998.

Massachusetts

• Boston: The City of Boston and Boston Foundation. Developed indicators as part of the Sustainable Boston Initiative. Web site under development. Contact: Tricia Adams, ph. 617-723-7415, e-mail: tra@tbf.org

Michigan

• Grand Traverse Region: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation and Northwestern Michigan College. Coordinating the Quality of Life Indicator Program including a Quality of Life Index containing two types of data: Reprinted Primary Data, collected by random sample public opinion polling in 1997, and new Secondary Data, information collected in 1998 and 1999 directly from local sources and existing data.

• Kalamazoo: Healthy Futures. Developed a community report card, Kalamazoo Community Indicators (March 1998), following the county's progress on 27 critical health and quality of life topics.

• Lansing: Sustainable Lansing. A coalition of citizens, businesses, local government, and community and environmental groups has completed initial work on the development of indicators.

• Minneapolis-Hennepin County: Hennepin County Health Department: Provides a report card with data which gives overview of the health of county residents.

• Kansas City: MRI Research. Overview of Kansas City Vital Signs, a 162 indicator survey of social, health, and economic conditions.

• Kansas City: Partnership for Children. Develops an annual Report Card/Data Briefing Book with 17 benchmarks for children entitled Report Card on the Status of Children.

• St. Louis: East-West Gateway Coordinating Council. Developed a1999 Report with indicators entitled: St. Louis - Where We Stand.

Montana

• Missoula/Missoula County: Missoula Measures.  Developed report with indicators selected by the local residents.

Nebraska:

• Douglas and Sarpy Counties: United Way of the Midlands. Developed report with indicators entitled Tri-County Human Care Profile.

• Truckee Meadows - Reno: Truckee Meadows Tomorrow. Works with Regional Planning Council to issue annual reports with 30 quality of life indicators.

• Albuquerque: City of Albuquerque. Provides reports on Five-Year Goals Progress Indicators that reflect links between community indicators and the city's 5-year goals and programs.

• Albuquerque: City of Albuquerque, the Albuquerque Public Schools, The Albuquerque Conservation Association and others. Developed Albuquerque's Environmental Story: Educating For a Sustainable Community, which was created to help students relate to their local natural and human environment. The site includes a manual with a process for other communities to create their own "Environmental Story."

• Buffalo - Niagra Region: Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth. 1999 State of the Region Report containing Performance Indicators.

• Cleveland: Citizens League Research Institute. Developed regional community benchmarks comparing the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area to 24 other metropolitan area across the United States.

• Dayton-Montgomery County: Montgomery County Family and Children First Council. Developed 2001 Progress Report on Outcomes, Indicators and Strategies.

• Gresham: The Gresham Progress Board. This citizens advisory group develops community indicators that include specific targets for the community's future.

• Portland/Multnomah County: Portland Multnomah Progress Board. Includes indicators for ten general topic areas.

• Columbia-Pacific Region: Community Information Center and Ecotrust. Developed tracking indicators for six communities/counties in northwest Oregon.

• Philadelphia: Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. Developed a report on Regional Indicators entitled Measuring our Progress to 2025. Includes a summary and 26 indicators for their 9-county metropolitan region.

• Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. On-going Series on PG Benchmarks, with 60 measures comparing the area with14 other similar sized metro areas.

• Greenville County: County Planning Commission Developing a "Designing Our Destiny Plan" to influence the pattern of growth and preserve the area's quality of life. The process has included compiling data for seven main elements: Population, Cultural Resources, Economics, Natural Resources, Community Facilities, Housing, and Land Use.

• Hamilton County/Chattanooga: Metropolitan Council of Hamilton County Developed 1998 Report entitled Life in Hamilton County: Indicators of Community Well-Being, which includes a number of indicators and trends covering the various aspects of life in the city of Chattanooga and Hamilton County.

• Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties - Austin: Sustainable Indicators Project: Published second annual report entitled Sustinability Indicators Project of Bastrop, Caldwell, Haysw, Travis, and Williamson Counties, 2001, which includes 39 individual indicators organized in four categories: Our Community/ Our Children, Our Workforce/Our Economy, Our Health/Our Environment, and Our Land/Our Infrastructure.

Virginia

• Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Sustainability Council. Developed 1996 Interim Report on Indicators of Sustainability containing 69 visions or objectives and 159 indicators to measure progress toward these objectives.

Washington

• King County/Seattle: King County Government. Develops annual King County Benchmark Reports with about 45 indicators for five focus areas.

• Pierce County: Pierce County Department of Community Services. The Pierce County Quality of Life Benchmark Project provides Quality of Life Benchmark Reports for 80 indicators in nine general topics.

• Seattle: Sustainable Seattle. Provided 1998 and earlier reports. Pioneer in work on indicators. 1998 report entitled Indicators of Sustainable Community lists forty indicators to chart Seattle's progress toward or away from sustainability. Additional Information is available.

• Willapa: Willapa Alliance. Developed 1998 report including indicators for natural, social and economic wealth.

• South Puget Sound: Sustainable Community Roundtable. Released 1999 report entitled Creating A Sustainable Community in South Puget Sound - 1999 Update. Includes data for 13 indicators of progress.

• Racine: Sustainable Racine. Site also includes a draft list of 14 indicators.