Welcome to Kingston & Area’s Vital Signs® 2011
Vital Signs® is an annual community checkup conducted by community foundations across Canada and is coordinated nationally by Community Foundations of Canada. The Vital Signs trademark is used with permission from Community Foundations of Canada.
What is Vital Signs®?
Welcome to the third annual Kingston & Area’s Vital Signs. Vital Signs is a report card on our community. Its purpose is to help us recognize what our community does well and to identify areas where we want to do better. We are one of several community foundations from B.C. to Nova Scotia who are producing the report this year. Our national organization, Community Foundations of Canada, also produces a national Vital Signs report.
The Vital Signs project follows guidelines set by Community Foundations of Canada which specify issue areas, and in some areas, “core indicators” that are to be used in all communities. Much of the data in this report came from Statistics Canada sources, specifically selected for participating foundations by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards. Local organizations have also provided us with data and information. We’ve given these organizations credit throughout the report.
To help guide the process, we created a steering committee of volunteers and experts to help us.
Vital Signs 2011 Steering Committee
- Florence Campbell, President of the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area
- Vikram Varma, Executive Director for the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area
- Dan Norman, Past Vital Signs Chair
- Julia Bryan, Kingston Community Roundtable on Poverty Reduction
- Cheryl Hitchen, City of Kingston
- Kim Hockey, United Way serving Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington
- Marty Kapitan, Volunteer
- Ron Shore, Kingston Community Health Centres
Vital Signs 2011 Staff
John Suart, Vital Signs Project Manager & Senior Writer - JohnSuart.Com.
