Resource Type: Guidance
Website providing resources about the basics of public engagement benefits, principles, design and other topics to help local and regional agencies successfully involve stakeholders in local public decision making.
Report providing practical support to cities to develop a comprehensive and effective engagement strategy.
This is a three stage tool that assesses capacity for public engagement and identifies key activities to advance capacity and capabilities.
Guide providing information on evaluating heart disease and stroke prevention activities within states. While focused on these activities, the guide provides more general approaches for evaluating a wide range of programs.
Set of curated resources to build understanding of evaluation—what it is, why it is important, and how it can help Federal agencies execute their missions more effectively—among Federal agency staff at all levels. Importantly, this Toolkit is not a "how to" on conducting evaluation. Instead, it offers curated tools, reports, and templates to help Federal staff who work with evaluators, see the need for evaluation but don't know where to start, or want to use evaluation findings to inform their decisions.
This resource provides information about the Property Assessed Clean Energy program which can be used to finance upfront costs for qualified energy, water, resilience, and public benefit projects with funding through a voluntary assessment on the property tax bill.
Website for the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) program which provides a funding source for State and local governments to fund transportation projects and programs to help meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Toolkit providing access to information and resources about evolving loan funds, which are an internal capital pool that is dedicated to funding energy reduction or onsite generation projects that generate cost savings. A portion of those savings are then used to replenish the fund (i.e. revolved) allowing for reinvestment in future projects of similar value.
Website for the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund which invests in community-led projects to reduce carbon emissions, create economic opportunity, and help make Portland more resilient to a changing climate.
Website providing access to tools and resources related to programs that reduce emissions from trucks and buses in California. Includes information about regulations, zero-emission trucks, and infrastructure.
