Other Benchmarking Consortiums:
North Carolina Benchmarking Project - This benchmarking project, which began in 1995, has nearly 20 members. Facilitated by the University of North Carolina School of Government, the benchmarking project employs a thorough, full cost accounting method of comparison.
Florida Benchmarking Project -
Performance Measures and Benchmarks:
National Center for State Courts - The site provides tools and benchmarks that can be adapted for use to county courts as well. You can find these resources through CourTools and the Trial Court Performance Standards and Measurement System.
ICMA Center for Performance Management
SEMCOG: Local Government Effectiveness and Collaboration -
Public Performance Measurement Reporting Network -
Performance Reporting:
City of Vancouver - The City of Vancouver uses a dashboard system to visually depict their annual performance to citizens.
Sterling Heights, MI - Sterling Heights publishes a comprehensive annual budget that includes goals, objectives, and measures. Each departmental goal indicates which city goal it is achieving.
Kent County, MI - Kent County provides the goals and performance measures of each of the departments right on the department home page.
City of Des Moines, IA - The City of Des Moines publishes a document that solely reports performance measure.
King County, WA -
Prince William County, VA -
Other Resources:
Cobalt Community Research - Cobalt Community Research is a 501c3 nonprofit coalition created to help governmental and nonprofit organizations measure, benchmark, and manage their efforts through high-quality affordable surveys, focus groups, and facilitated meetings.