Civic Connections: How Civic Participation Plugs into Social Capital – Social Capital Index metrics report 1
Written by: Shawn Teigen
The Utah Foundation’s Social Capital Index project is a series of reports that measure whether Utah is thriving in terms of its “social capital.” Put simply, social capital refers to the ways in which individuals can leverage connections between people and social networks for the benefit of themselves or their community. Civic engagement is the first of seven categories of social capital. Utah is not doing as well as in previous years: Utah has lost … Continued