Environmental Stewardship
This broad topic covers many important issues, including energy and water efficiency, renewable energy use, at-risk ecosystems, pollution, recycling, water quality, and gardening. Following are some of our most relevant resources on this topic.
Overview of the Environmental Stewardship Focus Area
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2012 Environmental Stewardship Performance Measures
The following performance measures are part of the agency-wide Priority Measure, Number of at-risk acres (land and/or water) improved by CNCS-supported members, participants and volunteers and part of Goal 1: Increase the impact of national service on community needs in communities served by CNCS-supported programs. See all goals and agency-wide Priority Measures.
EN4: Number of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands that are improved.
EN5: Number of miles of trails or waterways (owned/maintained by national, state, county, city or tribal governments) that are improved and/or created.
2012 AmeriCorps National Performance Measures Instructions – Environmental Stewardship (PDF)
Other Performance Measurement Resources
- Overview of the Environmental Stewardship Focus Area (PPT)
- AmeriCorps – Demonstrating Impact in the Environmental Stewardship Focus Area (PPT)
- AmeriCorps - Environmental Stewardship Tier 3 Measures (2011 NOFA)
- AmeriCorps - Pilot Year 2 Environmental Stewardship Measures (2010 NOFO)
- AmeriCorps - Pilot Year 1 Environmental Stewardship Measures (2009 NOFO)
General Environmental Stewardship Online Resources
- Service-Learning and the Environment: Selected Resources
- Northwest Service Academy Field Team Handbook, from the EnCorps Collection
- Logic Models for Corporation Environmental Programs
- Senior Corps Environmental Instruments
- Learn and Serve America Environment Instruments
