Ben Warner is the Deputy Director for Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (JCCI), a citizen-based public policy think-and-do tank in Jacksonville, Florida. The core work of JCCI is to engage citizens to improve the quality of life in Northeast Florida, and the organization accomplishes this through a community change model involving community-selected quality-of-life indicators, open discussions and community studies around issues identified by the indicators, citizen-led advocacy efforts to create positive change based on study recommendations, and continued progress monitoring through the indicators efforts.
At JCCI, Ben is responsible for JCCI’s Quality of Life Progress Report (now in its 25th annual edition), Community Snapshot, and its annual Race Relations Progress Report.
He is past president of the National Association of Planning Councils and was inaugural president of the international Community Indicators Consortium, a network of individuals and institutions which seeks to advance the art and science of community indicators and encourage development and facilitate effective use of community indicators across the globe.
