How can measurement support an adaptive change process in a community system striving to optimize population well-being? How can integration and management of data collection and analysis work in practice? This case study of the Magnolia Community Initiative describes such a measurement system, and offers it as an example to illustrate a set of principles for measurement.
Authors: Moira Inkelas and Patricia Bowie, University of California, Los Angeles. Originally appeared in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco‘s Community Investments, Vol. 26, Issue 1.