The Victoria Foundation has launched Victoria’s Vital Signs as a way of fulfilling our motto “connecting people who care with causes that matter.” It helps our organization, our donors, and other community groups to address community needs and opportunities.

Vital Signs helps us better understand the social, economic, environmental and cultural factors that contribute to the quality of our lives. Each indicator shows what is happening in a particular area; combined, they provide an important picture of the well-being of our community.

Vital Signs is an annual community check-up conducted by community foundations across Canada that measures the vitality of our cities, identifies significant trends, and assigns grades in areas critical to quality of life. 

Vital Signs is based on a project of the Toronto Community Foundation and is coordinated nationally by Community Foundations of Canada.

*The Vital Signs trademark is used with permission from Toronto Community Foundation.

Measuring the vitality
of our community in 2007

Through an on-line survey available to the community, the following grades have been assigned to the indicators in this report.

In dire need of corrective action.

Of concern, needs attention.

Progress is being made.

We’re doing well and headed in the right direction.

Awesome! Victoria’s tops