The National Endowment for the Arts continued its webinar series on evaluating arts programs with a discussion on how state arts agencies and regional arts organizations are using evaluation to assess their grant portfolios.

Laura Scanlan, NEA...

Do you work as an educator in a botanic garden or museum in Italy, Portugal or the UK? LearnToEngage is an exciting new suite of professional development modules for botanic garden staff...

The National Evaluation of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) aims to assess the processes and outcomes of fifteen regional Fire Science Exchanges (Exchanges) and Exchanges’ programming at the aggregate national level. This ongoing evaluation...

This document is aimed at communities and organizations responsible for management of coastal zones, their risks and resources, and offers the benefit of a wide range of experience from around the world. The...

Evidence gap maps (EGMs) aim to inform funding and research decision-making by compiling existing research accessibily in one place in a way that also shows limitations and gaps. This report summarises the methods and findings of an EGM on land-use...

The “Being Prepared for Climate Change” workbook is a step by step guide for place-based organizations to develop risk-based climate change adaptation plans. This interactive...

​​This site offers general resources – including articles and studies by leading thinkers in the field of nonprofit finances – on why strong...

The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) shows teachers how to use Project Based Learning in all grade levels and subject areas. As a mission-driven nonprofit organization, BIE creates, gathers, and shares high-quality...

An interdisciplinary field trip to a remote marine lab joined graduate students from fine arts and natural resource science departments to think creatively about the topic of climate change and science communication. We followed a learning cycle...

This article investigates the scientific and communicative value of time-lapse imagery by exploring applications for data collection and visualization. Time-lapse imagery has a myriad of possible applications to study and depict ecosystems and...

The global environmental conservation community recognizes that the participation of local communities is essential for the success of conservation initiatives; however, much work remains to be done on how to integrate conservation and human...

In this e-book, 20 educators across the U.S. are trying to offer a fresh look at environmental education outcomes and their measurement. Outcomes measures are used in environmental education program evaluation. A number of resources support educators’...

As climate change places continued pressure upon wild-plant populations, botanical gardens and arboreta become increasingly indispensable conservation agents. Not only are collection managers faced with harder...

The history of botanical gardens, from ancient Egyptian and Roman roots, through medieval and Renaissance developments, and up to 21st century developments, is chronicled in a new article, ‘Western Botanical Gardens: History and Evolution’ by Donald A...

This document contains a Public Garden article titled The Morton Arboretums New Master Plan for Collections by Kunso Kim and Marcus de la Fleur.

This document contains the Evaluation Worksheet for The New York Botanical Garden Collections Master Plan. 

A collaboration between Canada, Mexico and the US, the North America Drought Monitor produces a monthly drought conditions map. Downloadable drought data are provided free to the public.

Appalachian State University has completed a comprehensive waste audit on campus, and has identified a need to reimagine waste stream management.

Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them.

Large scale composting siting and operations resources