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What citizens can do:
Give
Make a donation to support your local community.
Volunteer
Get involved by offering up your time and skills to help organizations.
Act
Let your voice be heard about how you believe we can make Windsor-Essex
a better place to live, work, and play.
Learn More
Since the release of the 2009 Community Well-Being Report, other
community reports have been produced to enrich the quality of information
that is available in Windsor-Essex County. These include the 2014 Social
Determinants of Health in Windsor-Essex County report produced by
the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit.xci The Windsor-Essex Community
Foundation’s Vital Signs report is published annually, and was first produced
in 2013.xcii The City of Windsor also produces a number of reports that monitor
the progress of their social, cultural and economic initiatives. These reports
can be used in a complementary fashion with the 2015 Community Well-Being
Report to provide a more comprehensive picture of our community.
What community organizations can do:
Turn data into strategy
Use the data in this report to focus your programming and to seek applicable
funding to achieve targeted objectives.
Form a collaborative
Join together with other organizations and funders to create community-
wide, integrated solutions to community problems.
What government can do:
Focus resources
Respond to the needs of your constituents by focusing resources
where they are needed most in each community, based on both community
input and data.
Leverage existing knowledge
Many organizations bring expertise and knowledge to the table on specific
issues that can assist and calibrate government action.
Lead the way
Government can and should be a flag bearer for the community and the
issues that it faces – from acting as a resource to providing a mandate for
community groups to deliver services directly – all of these roles are needed.
What citizens can do:
Give
Make a donation to support your local community.
Volunteer
Get involved by offering up your time and skills to help organizations.
Act
Let your voice be heard about how you believe we can make Windsor-Essex
a better place to live, work, and play.
Learn More
Since the release of the 2009 Community Well-Being Report, other
community reports have been produced to enrich the quality of information
that is available in Windsor-Essex County. These include the 2014 Social
Determinants of Health in Windsor-Essex County report produced by
the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit.xci The Windsor-Essex Community
Foundation’s Vital Signs report is published annually, and was first produced
in 2013.xcii The City of Windsor also produces a number of reports that monitor
the progress of their social, cultural and economic initiatives. These reports
can be used in a complementary fashion with the 2015 Community Well-Being
Report to provide a more comprehensive picture of our community.
What community organizations can do:
Turn data into strategy
Use the data in this report to focus your programming and to seek applicable
funding to achieve targeted objectives.
Form a collaborative
Join together with other organizations and funders to create community-
wide, integrated solutions to community problems.
What government can do:
Focus resources
Respond to the needs of your constituents by focusing resources
where they are needed most in each community, based on both community
input and data.
Leverage existing knowledge
Many organizations bring expertise and knowledge to the table on specific
issues that can assist and calibrate government action.
Lead the way
Government can and should be a flag bearer for the community and the
issues that it faces – from acting as a resource to providing a mandate for
community groups to deliver services directly – all of these roles are needed.
