Our 2025 Needs Assessment Survey is currently open, with results to be published later in Fall of 2025.
In 2022, the Community Foundation completed its second Comprehensive Community Needs Assessment thanks to a grant from Lilly Endowment. This assessment was a follow up and re-fresh to the inaugural Community Needs Assessment which the Community Foundation conducted in 2019. You can find the results to the 2022 survey here:
The goals of the assessment are to:
- help identify and prioritize needs in Hendricks County;
- unite institutions and resources from throughout our community; and,
- create solutions that produce significant, widely-shared and lasting results.
In the follow-up since the initial survey we have:
- provided grants to increase civic engagement and County pride;
- hired a Community Inclusion and Engagement Manager to continue our community outreach;
- prepared to launch an engaging program to highlight our local elected officials with The Republican Newspaper;
- supported Indiana Citizen Inc. to promote voter registration and turnout in Hendricks County;
- launched a Behavioral Health Needs Assessment and Community Planning project to meet the growing mental and behavioral health needs in our community; and
- planned a Housing Summit to convene community leaders on housing access.
The 2025 Survey, like the 2022 Survey, is an abbreviated version of the 2019 Survey to be used to update the data resourced by people across our community. Our goal is to reach 4,000 or more individuals that live, work, and play in Hendricks County. This will provide data that is 99% accurate (with a 2% margin of error).
Survey responses are anonymous and will not be used for further marketing or solicitations. Our goal is to distribute the results of the survey in late 2025.
