Community of Well-Being Initiative

BUILDING A MORE THRIVING REGION

What will the Dayton Region look and feel like when

everyone is experiencing maximum well-being

and realizing their full potential?

“You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”

- Buckminster Fuller

Community of Well-Being Initiative video featuring Dan Foy of The Gallup Organization, Martin Timoney of Rickter Meta Performance, and Peter Benkendorf of The Collaboratory. Moderated by Fabrice Juin from the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission.

Unleashing Dayton's Potential

The Community of Well-Being Initiative aims to move residents of the Dayton region from where they are now to where they want to be through individual, organizational, and community action to support a culture of mutual well-being. The Gallup Well-Being Index

will benchmark existing systems and current levels of community and individual success.

The Rickter Scale Method will offer a valuable strategic planning tool for individual

well-being and organization management—collecting data that will inform external stakeholders and funders of the effectiveness of the work being done.

The Community of Well-Being Initiative has partnered with leaders from 50+ nonprofits, government entities, businesses, cooperatives, and institutions of higher education that are strongly committed to seeing Well-Being adopted as the new definition and measure of community success in the Dayton region.

We are defining the Dayton Region as the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission (MVRPC) District—Montgomery, Greene, Miami, Preble, Darke and Shelby Counties and a portion of Warren County—plus Clark County.

WHY WELL-BEING

The data from research by Gallup shows there is a strong correlation between the Well-Being Index and both individual and community outcomes.

Well-being has been linked to success at professional, personal, and interpersonal levels, with those individuals high in well-being exhibiting greater productivity in the workplace, more effective learning, increased creativity, more prosocial behaviors, and positive relationships. Higher well-being is linked to a number of better outcomes regarding physical health and longevity and higher life satisfaction has been linked to better national economic performance. At the time, data from Gallup shows that well-being can prove a better social indicator than economic performance when taken collectively.