The Utah Foundation’s project on social capital has included a series of reports on the idea and its potential application to communities in Utah. The project was guided by members of the Utah Foundation’s Board of Trustees, including Sandy City Council member Aaron DeKeyzer. He joins Utah Foundation President Shawn Teigen and Research Director Christopher Collard for a roundtable discussion.

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Over the past year, the Utah Foundation has published a series of reports looking at social capital in Utah – the idea, as expressed by Harvard Professor Robert Putnam, that our connections between individuals and the broader community improve not only our own well-being but that of the places we live and the nation as a whole. One key aspect of that is social mobility – improving each family’s station in life.

As the report on social mobility was being finalized for its release, the Utah Foundation held a roundtable discussion with staff and a member of its Board of Trustees, Carlton Christensen. The conversation also included Research Director Christopher Collard and Research Analyst Ashley Marshall-Cantor.

Michelle Crawford, Executive Director of Circles in Salt Lake City, joined the presentation of the report to Utah news media and talked about social capital as a key aspect of their work to help families lift themselves out of intergenerational poverty, and we’ll hear from her as well.

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• Elizabeth Fauth, USU Human Development and Family Studies Department professor
• Walter Cline, CEO at Summit Vista, a “Life Plan Community”
• Trista Lawrence, Coordination Administrator at the Utah Transit Authority
• Cissy Morton, Transportation Bureau Manager at Tooele County

We also hear from Utah Foundation board member Andrew Gruber, Executive Director of the Wasatch Front Regional Council, as well as Paul Leggett, Division Director of Aging and Adult Services at Salt Lake County.

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There’s good news and bad news in the newest report in the Utah Foundation’s social capital series. The good news is that Utah far outdistances every other state in several key metrics of community life. The bad news is that Utah’s community life index score has fallen by over 40% since 2013.

In this podcast, Dan Bammes talks with Utah Foundation staff and board members Ben Brown and Mary Catherine Perry.

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Listen to our latest episode of Utah Thrives, where we discuss one of our Social Capital Index project reports: Households and Heritages: How Family Health Hooks into Social Capital.

In this episode, Dan Bammes guides us through a discussion with Shawn Teigen, the Utah Foundation’s President, and Bill Crim, President and CEO of the United Way of Salt Lake and a Utah Foundation board member. We cover the data and importance of family structure and family ties.

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Listen to our latest episode of Utah Thrives, where we discuss a hot topic: redistricting.

In this episode, Dan Bammes features a discussion with Christopher Collard, Research Director of the Utah Foundation. Christopher talks about the Utah Foundation’s redistricting tool, which enables Utahns to experience redistricting firsthand. In addition, Christopher highlights findings from a survey of city officials, which includes a question about keep together “communities of interest,” which is one of the priorities of Utah’s redistricting commission.

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Listen to our latest episode of Utah Thrives, where we discuss one of our Social Capital Index project reports: Tots and Tomorrow: How a Focus on Future Generations Generates Social Capital.

In this episode, Dan Bammes guides us through a discussion among Utah Foundation staff and board members. We cover the data and importance of these future-generations metrics.

Access the full report here.

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