Today Metro and three community partners launch Opt In, an online research panel that will gather public opinion among residents of the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area. Opt In is a new way to let decision-makers know what is important to you. The goal of the new panel is to create an easy, cost-effective way for you to provide input into decisions affecting you and your communities.
Opt In helps Metro make the right choices. Making a great place to live with good jobs and healthy communities takes the involvement of lots of different people with a variety of viewpoints. Residents of the region need to weigh in on issues that make a difference — issues such as schools, housing, sustainability, parks, community centers and clean drinking water.
Opt In brings together respected partners working for the good of the community. Metro created Opt In with three prominent community partners: United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, Northwest Health Foundation, and Portland State University’s College of Urban and Public Affairs. Working with other organizations dedicated to improving health, well-being and quality of life in the region helps Metro broaden its outreach and create a panel that is more representative of the region’s diverse communities and residents.
Opt In makes the most of limited resources. Metro’s innovative online research panel uses an effective private-sector tool to make government more efficient. The panel is hosted by Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall (DHM), a Portland-based consulting firm with extensive experience in opinion research related to public policy. Creating a large, diverse research panel allows Metro and its partners to get broad-based public input faster and cheaper.
Participating in Opt In is quick, easy, confidential – and rewarding. Panelists will be contacted two or three times each month with information or a request to take a short survey. All personal and demographic information that panel participants submit will remain confidential; Metro and its partners will receive only aggregate reports of participants’ survey responses. That means private information stays private—you share only what you want. Let Metro know what’s important to you, on your time and on your terms. Join the panel now and be entered in a monthly drawing for $100 Powell’s gift certificates and other prizes.
Opt In now. Weigh in for the future.
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