About JCCI Calendar Reports & Projects Consulting Services Statistics Get Involved Home
 
Learn About JCCI What is going on at JCCI? Learn About the Jacksonville Area What can JCCI do for me?
Contract Studies & Facilitations
JCCI's Worldwide Impact
Bibliography of Success

 
Contact Us

Contact JCCI by Phone, Fax or E-mail.
 
Contact UsContact Us
Bibliography of Success
Home : Consulting Services : Bibliography of Success

JCCI Bibliography of Success

Locally, JCCI is known for its success in bringing citizens together to build a better community. JCCI is recognized for excellence, receiving the Gold Award from the City of Jacksonville in 2001, 2002 and 2003 for Outcome Achievement. JCCI's track record of community improvement over the last 29 years has become a national and international model, with accolades including being named as a Best Practice by the United Nations and Solution for America by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. In the following publications, JCCI's accomplishments are noted, discussed, analyzed, and applied, as people try to understand and replicate the achievements we've had in Jacksonville.


Across the Country

  • Smart Communities . Author: Suzanne W. Morse, Pew Partnership for Civic Change
     
  • Putting Meat on the Quality of Life Issue. Publication: Chamber Executive (American Chamber of Commerce Executives.)
     
  • Engaging Citizens in Achieving Results that Matter: A Model for Effective 21 st Century Governance. Authors: Paul Epstein, Lyle Wray, Martha Marshall, and Stuart Grifel.
     
  • States, Citizens, and Local Performance Management . Authors: Pat Dusenbury, Blaine Liner, and Elisa Vinson (Urban Institute.)
     
  • Solutions for America: What’s Already Out There A Sourcebook of Ideas from Successful Community Programs. Author: Pew Partnership for Civic Change.
     
  • Beyond Anecdote: Using Local Indicators to Guide Your Community Strategy to Reduce Substance Abuse. Author: Join Together ( Massachusetts.)
     
  • Jacksonville ’s Indicators Program Reaches for Sustainability. Author: Michael Lehman ( Florida Sustainable Communities Center.)
     
  • Local Indicator Projects: State of the Environment, Sustainability, and Quality of Life Reporting at the Local Level: Processes, products, and Lessons. Author: Nick Rosenberg (Green Mountain Institute for Environmental Democracy.)
     
  • Causes and Consequences of Civic Engagement in America. Author: Gregory B. Markus.
     
  • High Value Performance Measurement: For Sustainable Results that Matter to Citizens. Authors: Paul Epstein, Randall Solomon, and Stuart Grifel.
     
  • Jacksonville : Indicators Pioneer, in Learning About Communities Through Indicators. Author: Erin B. Foster (Human Services Agenda of Northeast Ohio.)
     
  • Cities at Work: Cleveland and Jacksonville. Authors: Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile (Globalization and Community.)
     
  • Community-Based Research in the United States . Authors: Richard E. Sclove, Madeleine L. Scannell, and Breena Holland (Loka Institute.)
     
  • Measuring Quality of Life with Local Indicators . Author: Daphne T. Greenwood.
     
  • A Snapshot Depicting Mixed Signals on the State-of-the-Art of Evaluating Sustainable Development in the USA (and Canada). Author: Gerlude Struhkamp.
     
  • A Community Indicators Case Study:Addressing the Quality of Life in Two Cities. Authors: Kate Besleme, Elisa Maser, and Judith Silverstein.
     
  • Local Government Guide to the Internet:Online Resources for Communities. Authors: Priscilla Salant and Christy Dearien.

Around the World

  • The Greater Economy: Things that you never heard from any other economist . Author: Jose Monir Nasser ( Brazil)
     
  • Subjective Assessment of Urban Quality of Life . Author: Dr. Foo Tuan Seik ( Singapore)
     
  • Implementing the Habitat Agenda: In Search of Urban Sustainability . Authors: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and the British Government Department for International Development
     
  • Indicators, a Tool for Joint Implementation . Author: Heike Koitka ( Germany)
     
  • Advances in Community Quality-of-Life Research . Editor: Dong-Jin Lee (International Society for Quality of Life Studies.)
     
  • Case “Life in Jacksonville: Quality Indicators for Progress.” Author: Patricia Maria Meirelles Nasser (AVIA Internacional.)
     
  • A Sampling of Community-and Citizen-driven Quality of Life/Societal Indicator Projects. Author: Barbara Legowski ( Canada.)
     
  • A Local Government Handbook: Accelerating Community Sustainability in the 21 st Century . Author: The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives.
     
  • Current indicator concepts: Indicators for lasting regional development -- Methods and concepts of  indicator research. Authors: Birkmann, J. & Koitka, H. & Kreibich, V. & Lienenkamp, R. ( Germany)
     
  • The search for excellent cases of sustainable development. Author: Progetto Life ( Italy.)
     
  • Community Indicator Projects: Practical Tools for Addressing Quality of Life in Communities. Authors: Kate Besleme, Elisa Maser, and David Swain (First International Conference on Community Indicators, Singapore.)

In Professional Journals

  • Measuring Progress:Community Indicators and the Quality of Life. Author: David Swain (International Journal of Public Administration.)
     
  • Neighborhood Indicators: A Review of the Literature and An Asssessment of Conceptual and Methodological Issues. Authors: David Sawicki and Patrice Flynn (Journal of the American Planning Association.)
     
  • Managing and Monitoring Quality-of-Life Variables. John B. MacArthur (Journal of Strategic Performance Measurement.)
     
  • Planning Practice: Going by the Numbers . Author: James H. Andrews (Planning.)
     
  • Sustainability and Quality of Life Indicators . Authors: Patrice Flynn, David Berry, and Theodore Heinz, Jr. (Indicators: The Journal of Social Health.)
     
  • The Community Indicators Movement and Social Reporting . Author: Sandra Opdyke (Indicators: The Journal of Social Health.)
     
  • Linking Civic Engagement and Community Improvement: A Practitioner Perspective on the Communities Movement. Author: David Swain (National Civic Review.)

At a College Near You

  • Rutgers : Citizen-Driven Performance Measurement (CDPM 1101) Instructors: Dr. Marc Holzer and Kathryn Hammond
     
  • University of Oregon : Social Planning with Geographic Information Systems (PPPM 436/536, Fall 2003) Instructor: Dr. Marc Schlossberg
     
  • Tufts: Peace & Justice Studies: Developing Sustainable Communities (UEP 284) Instructor: Julian Agyeman, UEP
     
  • University of North Florida : Urban and Regional Planning (URP6058-009) Instructor: Dr. Henry B. Thomas


City of Jacksonville

Jacksonville Community Council Inc.
2434 Atlantic Boulevard, Suite 100, Jacksonville, Florida 32207
Phone: (904) 396-3052 | Fax: (904) 398-1469
E-Mail: mail@jcci.org
 

United Way of Northeast Florida
A Seventhman Foundation Project. | Website Development by Seventhman. | © Copyright JCCI. All Rights Reserved.