Record and Sustain

Record and Sustain Your Initiative:

Placemaking initiatives need to be recorded in different ways, depending on what they do, how they do it, and what the future goals of the initiative. This is why some placemakers may need to focus on recording different aspects of their initiative to see the greatest impact in their community. This page is set up to help placemakers consider different options and ways to record their progress.

Sustaining Your Placemaking Initiative

Infographic by Rotary International

Ways to Sustain Placemaking Initiatives

Create projects that have lasting impacts
Encourage your community to make placemaking a priority
Create programming around your placemaking initiative

Qualitative Ways to Record Placemaking

Google Street View Before and Afters
Capture Videos – youtube, vimeo, etc.
Capture Photos
Blog
Editorials
Social Media

Quantitative Ways to Record Placemaking

List of areas your project affects
Record the expected number of people benefiting from your project
Record the number of organizations that have benefited from the project
Calculate the percentage of community members impacted by the project
Post the various logistics of what you've created
Make a thermometer or other visual to show how close you are to reaching your goals

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