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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