To assume the role at the national level which planning councils provide at the local and regional levels, NAPC convened a national symposium on Social Indicators and Sustainability on November 30, 2000, in Washington, D.C. Invited guests included professionals working at the national level on Indicators:

- Marc Miringoff, Fordham Institute for Innovation in Social Policy
- Dennis Andrulis, PhD., SUNY/Downstate Medical Center
- David Berry, Government's Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators
- Tom Kingsley, Urban Institute's National Neighborhood Indicators Project
- Tom Kelly, the Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Chris Paterson, Sustainable Measures Listserve
- Mary Ellen O'Connell, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
- Rika Maeshiro, MD, MPH, the Public Health Practice Program Office of the Centers for Disease Control
- Barbara Greenberg, PhD., the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the US Department of Health and Human Services
- David Moriarty, Health Care and Aging Studies Branch of the Centers for Disease Control
- Jeff Elder, United Way of America
- Lark Stevens, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Peter Taitian, the Urban Institute's Listserve

Planning Councils present included representatives from Oklahoma City, OK, Sacramento, CA, San Francisco, CA, Norfolk, VA, Norwalk, CT, Albany, NY, Cleveland, OH, Ithaca, NY, Dallas, TX, and Charleston, WV.

This gathering of outstanding professionals explored the gap between national social-indicator projects using largely national-level data and community social-indicator projects using community-specific data. The morning session was spent achieving a common understanding of "who's doing what" about social indicators, and exploring how work at the national and local levels affect each other. The group readily agreed that an on-going dialogue was needed between these efforts. Those working at the national level felt the need to have a connection to those working on indicators and instituting best practices at the local level.

- Martha Blaine, NAPC President, 2000

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