INTRODUCTION
1 With its Healthy Community matrix, The Seattle Foundation (www.seatttlefoundation.org) monitors seven key elements of community vitality—basic needs, environment, arts and culture, neighborhoods and community, health and wellness, economy, education—and recommends appropriate strategies to improve them. The Puget Sound Regional Council (www.psrc.org) tracks population, housing, economy, and transportation in order to enable cities and towns, ports, tribes, transit agencies, and the state to work together to develop policies and make decisions about regional issues.
2 Findings presented in this report are based on analysis of the Census Current Population Survey (CPS) data, conducted by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). Any and all errors are our own. Volunteering estimates are from CPS September Volunteering Supplement, 2002 – 2009, and the Volunteering in America website at www.volunteeringinamerica.gov. Voting and registration data come from the CPS November Voting/Registration Supplement, 2004 and 2008, and all other civic engagement indicators, such as access to information and connection to others, come from the 2008 and 2009 CPS Civic Engagement Supplement. For these indicators, the 2008 and 2009 data were combined whenever possible to achieve the largest possible sample size and to minimize error. Estimates for the volunteering indicators (e.g., volunteering, working with neighbors, making donations) are based on U.S. residents ages 16 and older. Estimates for civic engagement and social connection indicators (e.g., exchanging favors with neighbor, keeping up with news, using the Internet to communicate) are based on U.S. residents ages 18 and older. Voting and registration statistics are based on U.S. citizens who are 18 and older (eligible voters). Any time we examined the relationship between educational attainment and engagement, estimates are only based on adults ages 25 and older, based on the assumption that younger people may still be completing their education.

Because we draw from multiple sources of data with varying sample sizes, we are not able to compute one margin of error for the state across all indicators. In Seattle, the sample size for major indicators varied from +/– 1.5% to 3.5%, depending on the sample size and other parameters associated with a specic indicator. Any analysis that breaks down the sample into smaller groups (gender, education) will have smaller samples and therefore the margin of error will increase. It is also important to emphasize that our margin of error estimates are approximate, as CPS sampling is highly complex and accurate estimation of error rates involves many parameters that are not publicly available.
3 We are grateful to all the agencies and individuals who provided data and references. Specic sources are referenced directly in corresponding notes throughout the report.
4 NCoC denes ”civic engagement” as a broad composite that includes voting, volunteering, working with neighbors to x problems, political expression, and philanthropy. It also includes measurements of social capital such as participation in groups, private sociability (e.g. relationships with family, friends, and neighbors), and access to information.
5 Our report includes Pierce, King, and Snohomish Counties, although the census data provided only represents the three cities of Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellevue. To address the full service area responsibly, we solicited supplementary local data and Steering Committee analysis.
6 For more information and opportunities to get involved in The Next Fifty anniversary celebration of the Seattle World's Fair, see http://seattlecenter.org/the–next–fty/
7 Populations statistics are taken from the Puget Sound Regional Council data. http://www.psrc.org/data/
8 American Community Survey Fact Finder , pooled data, 2006–2008 http://factnder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1 http://www.fastcompany.com/cities/2009
2 National Conference on Citizenship . (2010). Civic Health Assessment: Executive Summary. Available online: http://www.ncoc.net/CivicHealth2010
3 Brewster, David. (2010, August 27,) Building a Springboard to the Next Seattle. Crosscut. Available online: http://crosscut.com/2010/08/27/econ–finance/20109/Building–a–springboard–to–the–next–Seattle
4 The Seattle Foundation. (2009). A Healthy Community: Strategies for Effective Giving . Available online: http://issuu.com/seattlefoundation/docs/tsf_healthcom_web?mode=a_p
5 Shaw, Linda. (2010, February 4).. School funding gets an F; Judge calls for action. The Seattle Times . Available online: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010987058_schoollawsuit05m.html
6 Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE). (2010). Civic pathways out of poverty and into opportunity. (Draft report) Available online: http://www.pacefunders.org/archived_ehtml

VOLUNTEERING
1 2007–2009 ranking from Volunteering in America. http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov
2 See http://www.handsonnetwork.org/actioncenters/map/WA
3 Elizabeth Warman, telephone conversation with Diane Douglas. September 2010.

NEIGHBORLINESS
1 Putnam, Robert. (2006). E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty–first Century. The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture.
2 OneAmerica. (2009). Building Washington's Future: Immigrant Contributions to Our State's Economy. Available online:http://oneamericanews.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/oneamerica–
report–april–09–low.pdf
3 American Community Survey , pooled data, 2006–2008 http://www.census.gov/acs/www/
4 Brewster, David. (2010, August 27). Building a springboard to the next Seattle. Crosscut. Available online: http://crosscut.com/2010/08/27/econ–finance/20109/Building–a–springboard–to–the–next–Seattle
5 Ibid
6 http://www.seattleparksfoundation.org/project_BandsOfGreen.html

BELONGING TO GROUPS
1 Provided by staff at the Washington Commission for National and Community Service http://www.ofm.wa.gov/servewa/
2 The Center for information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. Civic Skills and Federal Policy . Available online: www.civicyouth.org
3 House Bill 2579, Washington State Legislature
4 CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement). (April 2010). Civic Skills and Federal Policy . Available online: http://www.civicyouth.org/federal–policy–and–civic–skills/
5 Ibid

PHILANTHROPY
1 Philanthropy Northwest. (2010). Trends in Northwest Giving. Available online: http://www.philanthropynw.org/s_pnw/sec.asp?CID=8175&DID=18608

POLITICAL VOICE
1 The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. (September 2010). Americans spending more time on news . Avaialable online: http://people–press.org/report/652/
2 America Community Survey, pooled data, 2006–2008 Available online: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/
3 Corporation for National & Community Service and the National Conference on Citizenship. (September 2010). Civic Life in America: Key Findings on the Civic Health of the Nation. Washington, DC. www.ncoc.net
4 National Conference on Citizenship. Millennials who use social networking sites for civic causes are also more civically engaged in their communities. www.ncoc.net
5 National Conference on Citizenship. (2009). America's Civic Health Index: Civic Health in Hard Times. 2009.
6 Communities Count: Social & Health Indicators Across King County . (2008). Available onine: http://www.communitiescount.org.

VOTING
1 U.S. Census. (November 2008) Current Population Survey: Voting Registration Supplement File. Available online: www.census.gov.
2 Only Pierce County still has polling places.
3 Richley, Sean. (December 2008) Voting by mail: Turnout and institutional reform in Oregon . Social Science Quarterly. 89 (4)
4 Goldstein, Thomas and Bates, Thomas. (2010, August 16). Opinion. The Seattle Times.

CONCLUSION
1 See America‘s Civic Health Assessment: Executive Summary 2010. Available online: http://www.ncoc.net/CivicHealth2010
2 Brewster, David. (2010, August 27). Building a springboard to the next Seattle. Crosscut. Available online: http://crosscut.com/2010/08/27/econ–finance/20109/Building–a–springboard–to–the–next–Seattle
3 America‘s Civic Health Assessment: Executive Summary 2010. http://www.ncoc.net/CivicHealth2010
4 PACE. (2010). Civic pathways out of poverty and into opportunity (draft report). Available online: http://www.pacefunders.org/archived_e.html
See also: National Youth Leadership Council. (2005)/ The National Survey on Service–Learning and Transitioning to Adulthood. Available online: www.nylc.org; and CIRCLE. Fact sheet: Civic skills and federal policy . Available online: http://www.civicyouth.org/federal–policy–and–civic–skills/
5 The Seattle Foundation. (2009). A Healthy Community: Strategies for Effective Giving. 2009. Available online: http://issuu.com/seattlefoundation/docs/tsf_healthcom_web?mode=a_p
6 Shaw, Linda. (2010, February 4). School Funding Gets an F; Judge Calls for Action . The Seattle Times. . Available online: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010987058_schoollawsuit05m.html