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Step 4: Community Goals and Measures of Success <br />Meeting Two <br />This meeting defines your community <br />goals and measures of success. A <br />goal is a broad statement that covers <br />many values and expresses an intent <br />to make something happen. A goal <br />can protect or achieve your values <br />and vision. A goal is taking aim or <br />charting a direction. When you are <br />thinking about your goals, stay true to <br />your values and vision. <br />A measure of success is a measurable <br />result or change over a period of <br />time. Measures of success allow <br />both a community and a funding <br />resource to examine the effectiveness <br />of a program and to make changes, if <br />necessary, to ensure that they stay on <br />the track of success. <br />V 11�;Iruu /Arr ;uIr <, I urrurl"A <br />{ 4f T <br />r <br />k f �•r �' � � I <br />r, <br />i sLr� <br />'� ' '• :M 'T f '� r <br />r ,r <br />J t� <br />J �� I - r •.' -2- <br />Remember to record your public process. Continue to encourage people to attend your meetings. <br />Share the information you have gathered at previous meetings. Put up a notice in the post office <br />or local store <br />Defining Community Goals and Measures of Success -- Form 6 <br />Break into groups or talking circles in the same manner that you did in your first meeting. Have <br />the group look at the values and the vision statement and then write a goal for each value. <br />Some values may have more than one goal and that is okay. Your goals should be based on the <br />community's values, visions, and critical issues. Review each goal to be sure it is compatible with <br />the community's top values. <br />After you have written the goals, identify the measures of success for each goal. In other words, <br />how will you know if you have achieved your goals? These measures of success will reflect your <br />community's vision for the future. Try to make them easy to measure. Look at the descriptive <br />overview of your community. The information you included in this overview can be your starting <br />point or benchmark from which you can measure the effectiveness of your projects and programs. <br />Every two years be sure to review how you are doing on your goals. Look at your measures <br />of success. Have you made progress? Do you need to change something to ensure that you <br />make progress? <br />Use Form 6 to record your identified goals and measures of success. <br />The following table provides examples of values, goals, and measures of success. As you read <br />through these examples you can see that values are broad statements. Goals are specific, and <br />measures of success are even more specific than goals. <br />19 <br />