Durham Community Foundation is a proud member of a national consortium of community foundations across Canada. Community foundations lead Vital Signs®, a national program coordinated by Community Foundations of Canada (CFC). The goal of Vital Signs® is to leverage the considerable knowledge, real time insights, and community connections of local community foundations to gauge the vitality of our communities. We seek to answer: how are we doing? Doing so enables community foundations to determine the most impactful ways to deploy resources, investments, and donations to improve the quality of life and enable people to thrive.
Durham’s Vital Data Dashboard is an interactive platform where users can explore the indicators and data used as part of Durham’s Vital Signs and our 2023 report, Together we Thrive.
Creating a Vital Signs report and data dashboard helps us build community. When we connect with people, organizations, business leaders, and government, we share and learn together. Our goal is to shine a light on the vitality of Durham Region today, so we have a measuring point to compare for future success. Durham Community Foundation is going further by discovering how the lives of residents in the Region are improving. Further, how to leverage that information to keep enhancing our shared quality of life. The community, government, charitable organizations, and businesses benefit from the data and insights in Vital Signs® by learning where they are needed most and how to serve their communities best.