Kicking Off Our First Community Survey for 2026!
Vol. III, No. 216 - It's time to ask what our readers are thinking!
When Civic Capacity was started in 2023, this newsletter was imagined as a helpful tool to not only help have our residents understand their community, but also to receive feedback and get ideas on how residents perceived where our hometowns was headed.
In order to achieve that goal, the decision was made to release a small survey that would ask residents their thoughts and feelings every two months. Every month seemed excessive, yet, once a quarter didn’t seem quite frequent enough. The idea was to help create a picture of the sentiment in the community and measure that sentiment over time.
So today, I’m reaching out to you, our amazing and dependable readers, and asking you to take a mere three minutes to fill out this survey. Let us know what you think about the place you call home.
In a future edition of the Civic Capacity newsletter in February, this publication will take the time to provide thoughtful and careful analysis of the answers this publication received and, more importantly, review the trends that the data is showing.
Given that January is the beginning of a new year, it will be interesting to see if there is new optimism to begin 2026. After last November’s elections, our communities have new faces in leadership roles. And there is no doubt that 2026 will be a year of transition, with statewide issues and offices that will be decided at the ballot box this year.
These surveys are not just an opportunity for your thoughts and feelings to be heard—although it definitely is that. It’s also a chance to gain a better understanding of how your community is perceived by your friends and neighbors, and for you to have a say in that process.
Also, it doesn’t matter what your hometown is; we will take responses from all communities! However, we will only publish results if we have enough responses from a community to warrant publishing the results.
Thanks for your time and your participation! It is greatly appreciated!
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