Calgary’s 2015 Vital Signs Report

CALGARY FOUNDATION Fast Facts $59.9 million received in new gifts $47.3 million granted to 900 charitable organizations $834.4 million asset base 47 new funds established Primary endowment portfolio – 10 year return was 7.6% versus a benchmark return of 6.7%; 1 year return was 13.1% versus a benchmark return 10.2% calgaryfoundation.org

Three key roles: 1.Support donors’ philanthropic goals 2.Make effective grants across the charitable sector 3.Provide community leadership calgaryfoundation.org

COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE  How the Calgary Foundation’s community knowledge is collected:  community consultations and 60 years working with the nonprofit sector  Community Knowledge Centre charitable organization members  from Vital Signs survey results and annual community issue research calgaryfoundation.org

 History of Vital Signs  Conducted in Calgary since 2007, and our 10 th Anniversary year is 2016  The need for a quality of life assessment was identified by the Mayor of Toronto in 2006, who believed Toronto Foundation was the organization that was a natural fit to conduct such an assessment  It has since grown into an international movement of cities that participate.

calgaryfoundation.org What is Vital Signs?  An annual community check-up that measures the vitality of Calgary, identifies significant trends and assigns grades across areas critical to quality of life. Why Vital Signs?  A community engagement tool that inspires citizens to take meaningful action.

calgaryfoundation.org Structure  Overview of Calgary’s past, present and future  7 Vital Foundations: Arts, Living Standards, Thriving Populations, Environment, Lifelong Learning, Community Connections and Wellness  Snapshots of research and trends  Profiled organizations doing great work in the different vital foundations  Community knowledge initiatives showcase  Citizen priorities and grades

CALGARY ON THE WORLD STAGE calgaryfoundation.org  Calgary 5 th most livable city in the world in 2014  Calgary cleanest city in the world:  Calgary 33 rd in the world for quality of life  Calgary 2 nd out of 50 cities for attractiveness to migrants  Calgary 3 rd in global prosperity behind only Paris and Stockholm  Calgary best sport city out of 30 global cities  Calgary dropped from #2 to #19 best place to live

HOW VITAL SIGNS ADDS UP: calgaryfoundation.org Citizen Grades Citizen Priorities Issue Research and Trends Calgary’s Vital Signs Report

ONLINE CITIZEN SURVEY  Grading was open from May 20 – June 26  Respondents have the option to answer a long or short version of the survey  70% of respondents elected to take the long version and 30% opted for the short version  1,819 respondents answered five questions or more generating a statistically valid survey response calgaryfoundation.org

ONLINE CITIZEN SURVEY calgaryfoundation.org  62% female, 38% male  60% of respondents were aged 25 – 64  45% of respondents work in the business sector, 20% in government, 13% in voluntary sector, 12% retired, 5% students and 3% unemployed  39% of respondents live in the SW, 30 % NW, 17% SE and 11% NE

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 Online Survey Questions  Overall Grades  Issue Area Citizen priorities  Comments  Quality of life:  Overall grade  Satisfaction scale  Improvements and declines  Comments  Demographics calgaryfoundation.org

EXPERT RESEARCH AND TRENDS calgaryfoundation.org  A range of Calgary organizations and institutions provide research to ensure that the indicators used are relevant, accurate and comprehensive  Centre for the Study of Living Standards provided additional indicator data

GRADING AT A GLANCE calgaryfoundation.org  Overall quality of Life: B (2014 B)  Arts: B (2014 B)  *Living Standards: C + (2014 B-)  *Thriving Populations: C + (2014 B-)  Environment: B- (2014 B-)  Community Connections: B- (2014 B-)  Lifelong Learning: B- (2014 B-)  Wellness: B- (2014 B-)

OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE B (2014 B) calgaryfoundation.org  69% describe themselves as happy  69% feel, at least, moderately stressed about personal finances  69% feel that Calgarians do enough to welcome new Canadians, while 24% feel uncomfortable, at least sometimes, as a result of discrimination  55% feel they know their neighbours well enough to seek help