Information is easily accessible. One stop, one interface, one version of the truth.

It builds trust and strengthens our democracy.

Community needs and successes are defined by stakeholders.

There are clear relationships between efforts and outcomes.

Open Society and Open Government encourage individual participation and buy-in to shape our collective future.

They have access to valid and reliable information at the level of analysis they need.

There are huge benefits related to economy of scale.

Collective Impact strategies can be evaluated in context.

Program performance is evaluated in relationship to community indicators, to more easily communicate ROI (Return on Investment) and sROI (Social Return on Investment) and assess cost of scaling.

Community indicators are readily available, making it is easier to triangulate information that they are receiving from other sources.

Cyclic community indicators, such as housing affordability or economic growth, can be tracked over time, encouraging planning that is not lockstep with election cycles.

It minimizes information that might reside in the blind quadrant, where decision makers do not know what they don’t know.