In 2019, the National Conference on Citizenship partnered with the Hawai’i Community Foundation to produce the first-ever Hawai’i Civic Health Index. This report analyzes civic engagement levels across age, income, region, and more.
Click here to download the full 2019 Hawai’i Civic Health Index Report.
Civic health reflects the degree to which citizens participate in their communities, from local and state governance to interactions with friends or family. Civic health also relates to the overall well-being of neighborhoods, communities, states, and the nation. Civic engagement is the act of working with local institutions and fellow residents to promote meaningful actions, movements, and relationships within a community or population. This can take many forms, from voter registration rates to talking politics with friends or family, and from trusting local businesses to participating in community groups. Some measures of civic engagement are political, some are social, and some are individual, but each reflects something important about a community’s civic health.