1. Rating Community Goals: Appraising of Importance and Feasibility

2. What does it mean to rate community goals?
It is a way to discover if the community believes its goals are desirable and realistic

3. Why rate community goals?
Reach consensus among members
Continue to set priorities
Validate the choices they have made about their goals

4. When should you rate community goals?
Before you set your action plan in stone, and certainly before you begin to take action

5. How to rate community goals?
Develop a survey
Conduct the survey
Review the results from the survey
Use the information you've obtained to fine-tune the plan

6. Why conduct a survey? Verify the importance of the goals
Prioritize the goals
Revise goals

7. I. Develop a survey that lists and explains the different objectives that your group hopes to achieve

8. II. Conduct a survey of constituents
Members of your group
Outside experts
Funders
Those people affected by the problem
Other interested community members

9. III. Review the ratings from the returned surveys

10. IV. Use the survey results to finalize the plans