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.