Evaluation

This database website, developed by PlaceMatters.com, is a resource for communities to identify technical tools and processes for better community design and decision making.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services developed this series of local success stories as a resource for local communities and health advocates interested in promoting physical activity and healthy eating through environmental and policy approaches.

This document details the comprehensive school nutrition policy for the School District of Philadelphia. This coordinated school nutrition policy provides the framework for ensuring that students attending schools in Philadelphia receive nutrition education messages that are reinforced throughout the school environment.

A resource serving as a roadmap for states and communities that have recognized the need for smart growth, but are unclear on how to achieve it. The document provides ten policy options to achieve each of the ten Smart Growth principles endorsed by the Smart Growth Network.

The CFP Evaluation Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to developing and implementing outcome based program evaluation specific to community food security projects. The CFP Evaluation Toolkit includes evaluation protocols and template surveys for program satisfaction, farmers' markets, community gardens, community support agriculture projects and farm-to-school projects.

This web page contains a series of very useful fact sheets related to land use and livable communities. It is also a portal to other free resources including reports and guidelines, model projects, participation and transit assessment toolkits and key articles and presentations.

This document addresses foods and beverages found in traditional cafeteria meals as well as a la carte items, vending machines drinks and snacks, and foods and beverages served in after school programs and at school functions. Three state agencies--the North Carolina Division of Public Health, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service--collaborated to create this document. Local education agencies are encouraged to use the Eat Smart School Standards to craft food policies that will contribute to students' nutritional well-being and health.

The purpose of a Smart Project Scorecard (SPS) is to assist elected local officials, developers, investors, neighborhood groups and designers make better project-level decisions that achieve the Smart Growth objectives. The SPS is a tool that can help evaluate whether a particular project is advancing

Although suburban and urban communities increasingly recognize and use the hallmarks of smart growth

The Universal Trail Assessment Process (UTAP) objectively documents the actual conditions in outdoor, natural environments. The UTAP is a tool that land managers, agencies and individuals can utilize to learn about, monitor, improve and use any outdoor path of travel.