Known for its youthful population, youthful mindset, and youthful energy, the City of North Port’ sought new ways to foster collaboration. The city created new methods to track and measure results that are easy to do and don’t take much staff time, developed innovative ways to listen to their community, and invented interesting techniques for telling their story. Through this initiative the City has learned how to listen to their community, take risks, recognize and give tribute to those who help, and measure results to help with to evaluation and adjustments.