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Welcome to Cobalt Community Research! |
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Cobalt Community Research is a 501c3 nonprofit coalition created to help governmental and nonprofit organizations measure, benchmark, and manage their efforts through high-quality affordable surveys, focus groups, and facilitated meetings. In addition, Cobalt uncovers trends, innovations and best practices across many fields to help organizations thrive as changes emerge in the economic, demographic and social landscape.
 
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Now Available: Cobalt Citizen Satisfaction Index |
Cobalt Citizen Satisfaction Index: World-class citizen research for enhancing local government
Local governments struggle to balance scarce resources with service level improvements. With high-quality customer satisfaction metrics, organizations can use solid data to support resource allocation decisions, improve services, measure progress, and build public trust. Click here to learn more, or click "get started" below and select "benchmarks." You also can register for a free webinar. Click here to access the 2009 Baseline Study of the Cobalt Citizen Satisfaction Index.
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Health care research (GASB 45) |
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Cobalt has released the 2009 Health and OPEB Funding Strategies study. This second-year study helps public employers who are weighing decisions about how to fund retiree health plans. Results help guide national efforts to improve education on this important change and share best practices.
This survey is sponsored by a coalition of organizations that represent more than 20,000 local governments, including Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Company (GRS), the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS), the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP), the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), the Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan, the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI), and the Tegrit Financial Group.
For the detailed 2009 media release, please click here.
To purchase the report, please click here.
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