While best known currently for Envision Utah, the Coalition’s other achievements include:

• Hosted the tenth annual Common Good Awards Lunch in October 2005, drawing more than 300 community leaders to honor the Stampin’ Up! and Volunteers of America , Utah . The Common Good Awards honor a public sector and private sector entity whose outstanding actions or mission have benefited the community as a whole. Previous award winners include: IHC Community Health Partnerships and the Sorenson Companies (2004); the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation and American Express (2003); the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Foundation and O.C. Tanner Company (2002); Utah-based Winter Olympic and Paralympic athletes (2001); Catholic Community Services and Nu Skin Enterprises (2000); Utah Power/Pacificorp and the Quality Growth Efficiency Tools Committee (1999); Ogden City School District and First Security Bank (1998); Travelers Aid Society (“The Journey Home”) and Larry H. Miller (1997); and Kennecott Corporation and the Nature Conservancy (1996)
  


• Worked with the Granite School District PTA leadership and West Valley City Neighborhood Services to implement the Neighbor Network program, a multi-level training project to help promote positive interaction in neighborhoods between youth and adults. Block leaders were recruited in new areas to promote Neighbor Network principles and block parties were held, providing fun and entertainment for adults and children. This project showed the powerful effect of reaching out to communities and will continue to grow through the hard work and efforts of PTA community leaders and Neighborhood Services.
  
  
• Facilitated passage of an on going $450,000 state appropriation for after-school programs. Sponsored a legislative lunch in January 1997, where representatives heard from community and youth leaders.


• Developed and passed an after-school hours, child protection legislative study resolution (S.J.R. 18) in 1996 to study ways to address how to keep youth from high-risk activities after school.
  


• Sponsored an after-school programs retreat in August 1996, drawing representatives from state and local government, community programs, child care providers, and youth leaders to brainstorm ways the state could play a role in supporting children and youth. Conducted inquiry and training sessions throughout the state.
  


• In 1996, the Coalition brought together the various interests who helped organize the open space preservation conference to support legislative action on the subject. The group educated legislators on the importance of open space preservation and the benefits of the original Senate Bill 48, which would take some basic steps to improve preservation efforts. The bill, as amended, passed the 1996 Legislative Session.
  


• Co-sponsored with Governor Leavitt a 1995 statewide priority setting meeting Parenting in the 90's, at which two key issues were chosen: advancing parenting skills and after school programs. Prior to this, coordinated ten regional Utah Kids Count meetings to develop an action agenda for the State of Utah on children's issues. The Salt Lake Mentoring Network was formed through the Coalition’s Salt Lake County Kids Count meeting in 1994 and now coordinates service training for volunteers on group activities, fundraising, and liability, and has completed a television special. The organization is made up of mostly nonprofit and government providers. A youth center was funded in Brigham City as a result of the Cache, Rich, and Box Elder regional meeting. The Coalition produced an issue brief Utah Parenting in the 90’s.


• Co-sponsored with the Utah State Legislature’s Land Conservation Task Force a 1995 public workshop, leading into Utah 's Growth Summit, Seeing Common Ground, Utah's Open Spaces to find solutions for preserving the agricultural, scenic, and wildlife value of open land. This was the beginning of a major effort to achieve "quality growth" in Utah .


• Sponsored a cutting edge Community and Wildlands Futures Pilot Project in Emery County with intensive stakeholder participation from environmental and resource user communities. This tool for communities across the west embodied transformation management strategies to advance environmental decision-making. An Emery County Public Lands Committee has been formed and has created a progressive management planning effort for public lands with the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a San Rafael Institute with all stakeholder perspectives has been formed.


• Co-Sponsor and key organizer of a 1995 Future Moves Conference at the Salt Palace . Two hundred and fifty interested community members were brought together to hear the latest in transportation options for the Wasatch Front.
  


• Instituted Canyon Country Partnership two-year start up staffing support. The Partnership is made up of representatives of Emery, Grand, Carbon and San Juan Counties , as well as the State of Utah , B.L.M. and the Forest Service. The Partnership has worked on overflight policies, created a conservation and tourist information program at Sand Flats ( Moab ), and worked to deflect tourism overuse of some areas by encouraging people to go to other less impacted sites. C.C.P. is now independent and self-supporting.


• Sponsored Futures Forums on affordable housing, rural economic development, water, Utah 's demographic future, transportation and air pollution, and co-sponsored, with the Governor’s Office, an educational forum, Information Ecosystem: Which Way the Superhighway?


• Secured gubernatorial support for House Bill 130, which increased access to health care. Helped ensure passage of House Bill 226, creating a health reform commission and passage of Senate Bill 158, which expanded Medicaid eligibility, initiated small group reform, expanded dependent coverage to age 26, and limited guaranteed renewability.


• Organized an information-sharing and problem-solving conference for business leaders and health care interest representatives, along with gubernatorial candidates.


• Brought about agreement and documentation of a broad-based recommendation for resolving the problem of school trust lands in BLM wilderness.


• Achieved agreement on and documentation of the issues relating to the Utah BLM wilderness conflict.


• Secured state funding for a health care risk pool to provide medical insurance for otherwise uninsurable individuals.


• Secured legislative approval for a 1993 public referendum to determine public support for a light rail mass transit system along the I-15 corridor of the Wasatch Front.


• Facilitated and coalesced Tree Utah during its formative stages. It has since planted over 100,000 trees around the state of Utah .


• Brought about the establishment of the State Office of Child Care, a resource center for business and other interested parties to improve available quality child care in the State of Utah .


• Co-developed KIDSPEAK, a problem-solving curriculum used in conjunction with basic skills to promote responsible social action by children in over 150 classrooms.


• Successfully implemented an employee training effort with AT&T titled, What to Look for in Childcare.


• Co-Sponsored with Southern Utah University and Utah Valley Community College three consecutive Rural Economic Summits. This is now an on-going effort sponsored by SUU.


• Responsible for the production and public broadcast of 23 documentaries exploring a range of public issues from water to the work place, plus two recent statewide television studio production broadcasts on Utah health policy reform.