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How successful have other people’s Community Environmental Restoration projects been? How did they measure their success? These resources explain how other people have evaluated themselves, and how you can use these tools yourself. Just click to read!

Check Your Success
A Guide to Developing Indicators for Community-Based Environmental Projects
(University of Virginia)
Check Your SuccessThis is a complete guide to evaluating community environmental restoration projects for community groups. It uses real examples to clearly explain how groups should choose indicators, how to measure them, and how to act on them.

Must See!You can download the entire Check Your Success Manual by clicking on Downloads.

Hamilton Sustainability Indicators Report 2003 (Hamilton, Ontario)
VISION 2020 has worked hard to evaluate itself, as this report card demonstrates. The report explains how progress was measured in each project area, and what sort of results they’ve seen. If you’re looking for a real-world example of how community environmental restoration projects are evaluated, this is a great example.

Community Environmental Projects (Canada)
Environment Canada’s manual for carrying out Environmental Restoration projects describes the step-by-step process for communities, from needs assessment to evaluation. It also includes dozens of examples to help you along the way. Its particular emphasis on measuring results puts it in the “effectiveness” category.

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