Have you joined Opt In yet? More than 500 of your neighbors in the region have already signed up to participate in Metro's new online panel —a good start toward Metro's goal of 10,000 panel participants helping guide important decisions that affect your community. Here are five good reasons you should join Opt In today.
1) Let Metro know what is important to you. Making a great place to live with good jobs and healthy communities takes the involvement of lots of people with a variety of viewpoints. Metro and its community partners created the Opt In online research panel this month so residents of the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area can weigh in on issues that make a difference. Join Opt In and share your views on schools, housing, sustainability, parks, community centers, clean drinking water and more.
2) Help great organizations support our great communities. Metro’s respected community partners are dedicated to improving the health, well-being and quality of life in the region. Together with United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, Northwest Health Foundation, and Portland State University’s College of Urban and Public Affairs, Metro will broaden its outreach and target the most effective investments in the region’s diverse communities. With your voices, Metro can make the right choices.
3) Make the most of the resources we have. 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. The large, diverse Opt In panel will allow Metro and its partners to get better information about your priorities at about half the cost of previous surveys.
4) Share only what you want—and share in the rewards. Participating in Opt In is quick, easy and secure. After you join, you’ll be asked to answer two or three short online surveys each month. Your personal information will remain confidential; Metro and its partners will receive only aggregate reports of survey responses. That means your private information stays private, while you help improve programs serving your community.
Join the panel now and be entered in a monthly drawing for $100 Powell’s gift certificates and other prizes.
5) Connect with Metro on your terms, and in your time. Not everyone has time to attend public meetings or write policy letters. The Opt In panel is just one of the new tools Metro has created to reach you where you live online, at a time that’s right for you. On the “Connect with Metro” page, you’ll find other convenient ways to learn more and get involved, including newsfeeds, online calendars, Metro GreenScene, and social media options such as Twitter and Facebook. Join the Opt In panel, connect with Metro, and participate in the decisions that make this region a great place to live.
Opt In now. Weigh in for the future.