about Measuring Community Success and Sustainability how do vital communities spell success? performance based measurement and community building planning for action an introduction to measuring guidelines for measuring measurement vocabulary sample indicators and measures outcomes and measurements outcome 1 outcome 2 outcome 3 outcome 4 outcome 5 afterword comments measuring links NCRCRD home page for more information about this website, contact khetland@iastate.edu		An Introduction to Measuring Why We Measure Measuring is a tool for reflection, and reflection is key to continuous learning. The information we collect through the measuring process helps us understand the real connections between our actions and our goals. Measuring allows us to test the assumptions we all make about how things work. If we find that our assumptions are wrong, which many times they are, through measuring we can get new ideas about what's true for our community. Then we can refocus our actions to make sure we can achieve our goals. Communities measure to learn and also to demonstrate accountability. When we do things together with resources entrusted to us by the public, we are obligated to be accountable in a systematic way. These measurement tools allow us to inform our community and our partners how well we and they are doing with the scarce resources available. This section of the workbook is an introduction to the process of measuring progress toward community outcomes. It includes guidelines for measuring, a vocabulary of measurement, and examples of indicators and measures for each of the five outcomes.
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