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Sustainability Toolkit:
10 Steps to Maintaining Your Community Improvements

Discover how to sustain the improvements you've made in your community's health and/or quality of life.

This toolkit takes you through a 10-step process for determining which efforts should be maintained and deciding how to successfully continue them.

The Sustainability Toolkit contains:

  • Examples and stories from communities throughout the nation
  • Activities you can complete, which are included on a CD-ROM
  • Sample plans, timelines, and completed activities
  • Tips and resources

Funded by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation

Download the brochure

You may download the entire brochure (including order form) in PDF format by clicking on the link below.

Sustainability Toolkit brochure (pdf)

Table of Contents (Partial)

Introduction -- 10 Steps To Sustainability

Step 1 – Create A Shared Understanding Of Sustainability
Activity – Sustainability Quiz

Step 2 – Position Your Effort To Increase Your Sustainability Odds
Activity – Ways to Increase Your Sustainability Odds

Step 3 – Create A Plan To Work Through The Process
10 Steps to Sustainability – Sample Schedule

Step 4 – Look At The Current Picture And Pending Items

Step 5 – Develop Criteria To Help Determine What To Continue
Potential Criteria for Determining Which Efforts to Continue
Activity – Criteria Grid

Step 6 – Decide What To Continue And Prioritize
Activity – Sustainability Decisions

Step 7 – Create Options For Maintaining Your Priority Efforts (including funding issues
Activity – Current Funding Matrix
Activity – Justification for Continued Support
Strategies for Obtaining Financial Resources
Activity – Connections Map

Step 8 – Develop A Sustainability Plan
Sample Sustainability Plans

Step 9 – Implement Your Sustainability Plan

Step 10 – Evaluate Your Outcomes And Revise As Needed

Resources

Cost

$90.00 (includes shipping & handling charges). All orders must be prepaid.

Make checks payable to: Public Health Institute

To print out the order form, click here.

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