About Nevada Tomorrow
Nevada Tomorrow is a community-wide initiative that provides a dynamic, interactive information platform with easy to understand local health and quality of life data indicators for all northern Nevadans. This initiative is led by Truckee Meadows Tomorrow in partnership with Renown Health.
The Nevada Tomorrow website, funded primarily by Renown Health, and supported by other community impact partners such as EDAWN, NV Energy Wells Fargo, is intended to help our Nevadan community members and policy makers learn about the overall health of our community as well as the collective quality of life in Northern Nevada. It provides local quality of life data, resources, best practices, news articles and information about community events.
In keeping with Truckee Meadows Tomorrow mission and values, it is important that the site provides balanced information on a broad range of topics affecting the quality of life and general health of our community and highlights the assets in our community.
Nevada Tomorrow, as with its parent organization Truckee Meadows Tomorrow, brings non-biased, independent, non-partisan data, local resources and a wealth of information to one, accessible, user-friendly location. The intent is to give our community the tools we need to read and understand the community health indicators that affect the quality of our residents' lives.
Nevada Tomorrow’s tools can also help our community set goals and evaluate our progress. Community groups, schools, non-profits, local agencies, chambers of commerce, tourism and many other organizations can use this information to show the great benefits of living in Northern Nevada as well as opportunities for improvement, with specific, non-anecdotal information. Master planners and government can use this data to establish community goals on a variety of platforms. The data is updated whenever source data is updated providing the most up-to-date information of its kind.
The evolving nature of this website allows all users of the Nevada Tomorrow website to contribute information and ideas. The promising practices section highlights exemplary programs and successes of local, state and national health departments; it also allows individuals to search for information when they face a similar situation or as a resource. Our goal is to strengthen and build healthier communities through the provision of state-of the art web-based assessment and improvement tools. We hope you find it engaging, interesting, and most importantly, beneficial.
Who We Serve
How Can We Support Better Quality of Life for ALL Nevadans?
Nevada Tomorrow is a resource to help create and foster a shared vision of community quality of life in Northern Nevada.
Use Nevada Tomorrow to access up-to-date sources of quality of life (QofL) data (such as health and socio-economic information), find key reports that describe our community’s current quality of life needs, learn about promising practices to improve people’s overall quality of life, and connect quality of life improvement efforts in our community.
Nevada Tomorrow believes that data drives progress, measuring what matters helps us affect social change and that data is accessible to everyone.
Our goal with this site is to create a website through which stakeholders in Northern Nevada, and the entire State, can better collaborate to address priority community quality of life issues. This site will offer the entire community access to the critical data needed to affect social change for improved quality of life.
This website will play a vital role in our community by offering a trustworthy, independent, non-partisan, non-biased, grassroots, community-lead, “one-stop shop” site for stakeholders and the community at large to access critical data needed to prioritize, address, and advocate for quality of life issues.
The target audience for this site will be our entire community; All community members: agencies, government, non-profit, private and public sector, citizens, corporations, etc.
Some examples of how the Nevada Tomorrow can be used by various community sectors include:
Truckee Meadows Tomorrow
TMT will use Nevada Tomorrow to inform our community convenings, to advocate for social impact with local government, to shine a light on the areas of our community that need the most help and to celebrate community progress. We will also use this site to help us share news of events, funding opportunities, and community service announcements that need to be communicated to our community.
Community Members
Community members are essential to QofL improvement efforts by helping to identify barriers to achieving good QofL outcomes and advocating for solutions. Community members will use Nevada Tomorrow to access important information to fact check the media and elected officials to ensure accountability through trusted non-partisan, non-biased, independent data about our local community, region, and state. Community members will use this site to inform themselves for voting purposes and for prioritizing community engagement activities such as volunteering and philanthropy.
Business
Data drives progress and highlights areas of opportunity. Private sector business will use Nevada Tomorrow to find and learn about promising trends in in economic, education, and other pertinent QofL data that can be highlighted for employee and investment recruitment and retention.
Local Agencies and Community Development
Projects to improve the physical and economic conditions of communities are the main function of local agencies and community development organizations. Local agencies will use Nevada Tomorrow to collect data needed to make effective and wisely-prioritized community development decisions. They will also provide local data to TMT to better report progress to the community. Local agencies will use this site to learn about economic and community development initiatives, search for funding opportunities and access current data on a broad spectrum of quality of life related indicators.
Government
Public officials can help identify the barriers to good community health in their communities and mobilize stakeholders to act, invest in programs and promote policy changes that can result in improved population quality of life. Local government will use Nevada Tomorrow to inform policy decisions that best meet the changing needs of our community and to ensure alignment with community desired outcomes. Local government will also use this site to easily access the most current data on more than 250 quality of life indicators related to our community’s quality of life, create reports that illustrate community needs, and find QofL improvement-related guidelines and policies from federal, state and local government sources.
Education Professionals
Educational attainment and academic achievement are directly linked with positive QofL outcomes. The long-term health of a community relies on the contribution of educators. Educators and those who support educational institutions will use Nevada Tomorrow to learn about promising programs to promote improved quality of life behaviors for students of all ages. Educators will also use the readily available community data to help understand the many socioeconomic factors that impact a child’s ability to find educational success
Community-Based Organizations
Leaders of community-based programs are in the position to increase community awareness of the barriers to good QofL and help build effective collaborative efforts to improve community quality of life.
Local non-profits will use Nevada Tomorrow for easy access to current regional and county data, create data reports for multiple audiences, search for funding opportunities, and access an easily-searchable, comprehensive resource library of effective and promising programs. Local non-profits will also use our information to better understand our community needs, to more accurately apply for funding, to more effectively use limited resources on priority areas, and to refocus energy onto programs rather than redundant and tedious data mining.
Health Care Professionals
Health care providers are uniquely positioned to know the barriers to quality of life are correlated to physical health. QofL information helps providers of health care create solutions and promote population health improvement efforts.
Those in the health care field can use this site for easy access to data indicators for a broad range of health issues (e.g. cancer, diabetes, heart disease, immunizations, oral health, respiratory diseases, etc.) and to find out about effective and promising wellness, preventive and disease management programs
Media
The media will use this information to gain a clear and proven barometer for community health and quality of life. This data will aid in better reporting of current challenges and opportunities our community faces, but also on collective progress as a community.
About Truckee Meadows Tomorrow
Engaging the Community. Measuring Our Progress.
Truckee Meadows Tomorrow believes that data drives progress. However, data only tells one side of the story. Community engagement and action—using data to drive effective decision making—is what transforms communities for the positive. That is what TMT does.
For more than 25 years TMT has been—and continues to be—the leading source of quality of life data and the trusted conduit for meaningful community conversation in northern Nevada. TMT connects with the residents of our Truckee Meadows community to uncover what matters most to the people who live, work, and play here—and then advocates for positive change for our citizens.
TMT endeavors to democratize data by providing our northern Nevada community with the most accurate, timely, relevant information possible through our many new and popular initiatives. The two most popular being the Nevada Tomorrow Community Data Tool and the Community Progress Report .
The Nevada Tomorrow Community Data Tool (found directly at NevadaTomorrow.org) provides a free, dynamic, easy to use, one-stop digital resource for access to community quality of life data. Here visitors can find up-to-date demographic, environmental, economic, educational, health, social determinant and equity data that compares local, state, and national goals and prior values, side by side.
NevadaTomorrow.org offers myriad custom dashboards that provide visitors with the most up to date demographic quality of life information for our community.
Available dashboards include:
TMT’s community indicator data are also used by other organizations for program and strategic planning, evaluation, outcomes and performance reporting, and evidence-based decision-making. As the first quality of life organization recognized by the Brookings Institution to effectively link quality of life indicators to community and public-private-nonprofit initiatives, Truckee Meadows Tomorrow is positioned as a national and local expert on quality of life indicator best practices.
The Community Conversation Speaker Series is a year-long speaker series for community members to learn about critical local issues that impact our quality of life here in the Truckee Meadows. Each month local experts will shed light on the obstacles and opportunities we face as a community. Topics include:
- Improving Our Access to Quality Healthcare
- Our Economic Recovery in a Post-Pandemic World
- Poverty, Housing, and Humanity
- Why the Arts Matter to Nevadans
Additionally, new TMT is partnering with a wide variety of community leaders to showcase how data can be used to effect positive change. Current community partnerships include:
- Truckee River Health Indicator Dashboard in partnership with One Truckee River
- Economic Impact of the Arts Community Data Survey in partnership with City of Reno Arts and Cultural Commission and Americans for the Arts.
- 2022-25 Community Health Assessment in partnership with Renown Health.
- 2022-25 Community Health Assessment in partnership with Washoe County Health District.
TMT remains a vital player in our community by providing accurate, timely and objective data needed to prioritize, address, and advocate for quality of life issues.
Truckee Meadows Tomorrow's History
1989 — The Nevada State Legislature created Regional Planning to ensure Reno and Sparks coordinated efforts to manage growth in the Truckee Meadows, including a stipulation that we in the Truckee Meadows must define and monitor our area’s quality of life. Truckee Meadows Tomorrow (TMT) grew out of an economic development committee that realized quality of life mattered to businesses moving into our area. Founding members included:
- Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (initial start-up prior to incorporation)
- Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Agency (initial staffing and original indicator research)
- Washoe Education Association (consistently high annual contributions)
- Washoe Medical Center/ now Renown Health (initial grant funding 1996-2001)
1993 — TMT incorporated as an independent, nonprofit and helped select our area’s first quality of life indicators, asking “What matters most?” to nearly a 4,000 stakeholders.
1994 — TMT issued a prototype of the Indicators Report, which became the benchmark for our future indicator reporting efforts.
1997 — TMT published its first Quality of Life In The Truckee Meadows: A Report To The Community, and in 1998, this report was used in the region-wide visioning process now known as “One Region. One Vision.” TMT continues to publish annual reports to the community summarizing indicator trends.
2000 — TMT surveyed the community and reduced the 66 indictors by collapsing 30 into 6 quality of life categories that resonated with businesses and citizens.
2005-06 — TMT engaged the community in a major Quality of Life Task Force effort to update the indicators for more relevant, outcomes-based measures. Again, thousands of citizens participated in this update process selecting 33 new community indicators, across 10 quality of life categories. TMT also adopted the new tagline “Engaging the Community. Measuring our Progress.” It crystallizes the organization’s mission and has helped citizens understand the important role TMT plays in our community now and in the future.
2007-08 — New indicators were researched and metrics reported in the comprehensive Community Wellbeing Report published in conjunction with Northern Nevada Business Weekly, January 2008. TMT was honored in December 2008 with the Community Indicators Consortium’s , sponsored by the Brookings Institution, for using indicators to generate positive community change.
2009-13 — TMT changed it’s business model to sustain the community’s indicator project throughout Nevada’s devastating recession.
2014 — TMT re-engaged by celebrating its 20th nonprofit anniversary, hosting community forums, and beginning new roundtable luncheons.
2015 — TMT re-invented its website, increasing security, adding interactive data plots for subscriber use, and member data downloads from the cloud.
2016-17 — TMT began geo-tagging quality of life indicator-related data for data mapping visualization.
2018- TMT hires new executive director, Erica Mirich, to grow community engagement and develop new and relevant data offerings.
2019- A partnership with TMT founding organization begins anew. Twenty-five years from TMT's launch a new partnership with Renown Health (formerly Washoe Medical) begins. This collaboration's goal is to democratize data and offer a free one-stop portal for community data.
2020- OnStrategy - a global strategic planning firm based in Reno, NV - works with TMT to complete a much needed strategic plan. The 2020-2025 Strategic Plan codefies TMT's mission, goals, initiatives, and specific objective. Additionally, TMT launches its new website, www.truckeemeadowstomorrow.org. Perhaps most importantly, the Nevada Tomorrow Community Data Portal goes live.