Sustainability Planning Tool
The Leaving a Legacy Sustainability Planning Tool describes a six-step process to create an action plan to sustain your grant project's work. These steps are:

1. Identifying the program strategies and activities that have been most effective in producing positive outcomes supporting your project's goals
2. Determining which of these effective program strategies and activities are not supported beyond the end of the Federal grant and will stop (and stop producing positive outcomes) unless action is taken to sustain them
3. Prioritizing those effective program strategies and activities that are not yet sustained
4. Understanding the functions of these program strategies and activities
5. Identifying sustainability strategies that can sustain these functions (and thus the positive outcomes of your effective program strategies and activities)
6. Identifying action steps for implementing these sustainability strategies

Click below for

• Instructions for using the Legacy Planning Worksheet PDF
• Leaving a Legacy Planning Worksheet (blank) Word PDF
• Sample Leaving a Legacy Planning Worksheet (completed for a fictional grant project as an example of how the Worksheet should be used) PDF