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Global Talent Search -- Trade Development Alliance
We are conducting a survey of college-educated people under 40 in 10 city/regions around the world to measure what they value about the city in which they live. The results will be presented at the "Creativity and Talent in an Urban Environment" conference sponsored by the International Regions Benchmarking Consortium. The Conference will be held in November in Barcelona. Members of the consortium are Seattle, Vancouver, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Fukouka, Daejeon, Helsinki, Stockholm and Munich. Seattle is represented by the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle.

Citizen Engagement in Government Performance Audits
The Washington State Auditor has commenced a program of performance audits of public agencies, as mandated by Initiative 900, passed last year by state voters.  Elway Research is coordinating a comprehensive outreach program to involve citizens, stakeholders and public employees in this unprecedented effort.  We are conducting focus groups and town hall meetings with randomly-selected groups of citizens using electronic, interactive polling; we are conducting random-sample telephone surveys of state voters; and we are conducting surveys of stakeholders and agency and local government employees.  This input is being used to guide the agenda for the performance audits.  www.sao.wa.gov

Car Washing and Water Pollution -- City of Bellevue

We conducted a series of focus groups among adult residents and high school students about car washing and its connection to water pollution in the Puget Sound. The results will inform Bellevue's on-going effort to encourage environment-friendly behavior at the household level. These focus groups build on a series of focus groups and interactive polling forums we conducted last year which identified home car washing as a particularly difficult behavior to change.

Mental Health Transformation Meetings -- Interactive Polling Dept. of Social & Health Services
We provided interactive polling support for a series of workshops for the governor's Mental Health Transformation Project. Workshops were held in four cities around the state with 100-200 people at each.

Is Seattle Friendly to International Visitors? -- Trade Development Alliance
We are updating a survey we conducted in 1993 to measure how "visitor friendly" Seattle is. We distributed questionnaires to international business and leisure travelers in the Greater Seattle area in September. The questionnaire asked about their experience in this area on topics from how they learned about Washington Sstate to what they did while they were here, to how they were treated, to the availability of services.

Imagine Olympia - City of Olympia
We conducted a telephone survey of Olympia residents to kick off the City's "Imagine Olympia" program - a year-long citizen engagement effort to update the city's comprehensive plan. The survey asks residents what they want to see as the city prepares to add 20,000 residents over the next 20 years.

First Ever Televised Statewide Town Hall Elway Research made television history by producing the first-ever, statewide town hall forum. As part or our on-going work with State Auditor Brian Sonntag’s performance audit program, we connected 475 randomly-selected state residents to a giant conference call and broadcast the event live on TVW. Participants answered survey questions with their touch-tone phones. Tabulated results were telecast instantly. Participants were also able to ask questions of Sonntag during the hour-long telecast. Citizens from all 49 legislative districts took part in this historic event.  www.tvw.org

Resident Impact on Water Pollution -- Snohomish Conservation District
We are conducting surveys in three target areas of Snohomish County to aid in the development of communications and social marketing strategies to improve residents awareness and behavior regarding water pollution. The surveys will focus on livestock management, residential remediation for rainwater, and prevention of contamination from septic systems and pet waste.

Citizen Satisfaction -- City of Covington
We are conducting a survey of residents of Covington, WA to determine citizen priorities for city government services and satisfaction with those services. Covington is a city of 17,500 in the growing South King County area. The city government provides some services directly and contracts with the county for others.

Citizen Satisfaction -- City of Auburn
We are conducting a survey of residents of Auburn, WA to measure trends in citizen priorities for city government services and satisfaction with those services. This is the second year we have conducted this survey.

Al Jazeera
Stuart Elway was an on-air analyst for the third presidential debate for Al Jazeera - English, the arab satellite network.

Elway Speeches & Presentations
Speeches, presentations by H. Stuart Elway, president of Elway Research Inc.

  • Stuart Elway inducted into the UW Communication Hall of Fame. The school of Communications has announced that H. Stuart Elway will be inducted into its Hall of Fame as part of the 2009 class. http://www.com.washington.edu/enews/sept09/fromthechair.html
  • Washington Public Ports Association, luncheon speaker, " Ports, Polls and Politics". November 2009
  • Association of Washington Cities - Mayors Exchange, "Building Trust by Communicating About Performance". December 2009
  • TVW Gala. For the sixth year, Elway will MC the "Cammy Award" segment of the TVW Gala. Attendees will vote for their favorite TVW clips of the year in several categories. http://www.tvw.org