LFLP Survey

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Sustainable Communities

Local Foods, Local Places Summit and Peer Exchange Participant Survey ICR Request

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Sustainable Communities (OSC) is planning to distribute a simple conference participant survey at the end of its two-day Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP) program event to be held July 24 – 25, 2017. The survey audience for the conference is conference attendees, who include federal partners, state officials, as well as local community members participating in the LFLP program. The attached survey is intended to seek customer feedback about the conference sessions in order to gauge participant satisfaction, and help conference organizers make improvements to similar future events.

Participant Questionnaire

Local Foods, Local Places Summit and Peer Exchange

July 24 – 25, 2017

Washington, D.C.

Thank you for your participation in the Local Foods, Local Places Summit and Peer Exchange! Your feedback about the convening is important and we hope you will take this opportunity to answer the questions below on how we did. This survey is being conducted in accordance with the Federal Paperwork Reduction Act Information Collection Request #2434.77. It should take about 5 minutes to complete!

Summit Overall Evaluation (Circle the appropriate response below):

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The summit met or exceeded my expectations.
Peer presentations were informative and useful from my perspective.
The summit format encouraged peer exchange
There were sufficient opportunities for me to interact and learn from my LFLP Peers.
I would like to attend future LFLP Summits.

Questions about the Summit – please write in your responses below:

1. What did you like most about the Summit? ______________________________

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2. What could we do to improve the Summit? ______________________________________

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3. What other feedback would you like to share? _____________________________________

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For each of the conference Sessions listed below that you attended please rate the quality of the session in terms of being helpful to you in your own LFLP-related work:

	Excellent	Good	Neutral	Poor	Very Poor
Monday
Power of Local Foods – How Local Foods, Local Places Changes Communities
Breakout Round 1: Planting Seeds– Partnerships, Community Engagement, and Funding
Tuesday
Opening Panel
Breakout Round 2: Farm to Table and Beyond – Growing Programs and Harvesting Results
Networking lunch
Skill Building (Storytelling)
Federal Resource Roundtable and Dialogue
Closing Panel – What’s Next?

Demographic Information

4. Participant Sex (optional) ____M ____F

5. Participant Description (check below how you would describe yourself):

_____ LFLP Community – city official _____ LFLP Community - farmer _____ LFLP Community – business owner _____ LFLP Community – Community Group/NGO

_____ Local government official _____ Federal government official/federal partner _____ Other (Please specify): ___________________________________

Thank you for taking the time to share your views with us!