Sustainability Planning Toolkit - Five Steps to Build a Sustainability Plan for Systems Change

Provides collaboratives, organizations, and programs with the tools needed for planning and implementing a sustainability approach for innovative projects. Draws on over 25 years of experience working with communities, counties, states, and Tribes from across the country as well as other relevant literature. Describes key elements needed for systems change; outlines a series of steps for building a sustainability plan; and highlights selected resources and examples. Includes a sustainability planning matrix, community mapping guide, cost analysis checklist, a sustainability assessment, and data and funding inventory templates.