STEW-MAP Survey

The Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP)

0596-0240-STEW-MAP-Appendix 2-Phase 2 Survey

STEW-MAP Survey

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Appendix 2 – Survey Instrument for Phase 2 of the STEW-MAP Information Collection

Welcome to the STEW-MAP survey!

STEW-MAP stands for the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project.

STEW-MAP is collecting information about civic groups and organizations that do environmental stewardship work in your region. These organizations may not primarily focus on the environment, but instead be focused on housing, immigration, social services; however, they still engage in caring for the environment in some fashion.

STEW-MAP uses a broad definition of stewardship: conserving, managing, transforming, monitoring, advocating for, and educating the public about local environments. Stewardship activities can include planting trees, restoring a wetland, transforming the local food system, advocating for open space preservation, gardening in a schoolyard, cleaning up a vacant lot, environmental education, or partnering with other organizations on local environmental issues.

By participating in STEW-MAP, you can help potential volunteers, public agencies, funders, and other stewards find your group and learn about what it does. You will also be able to learn about other groups doing stewardship work in your region.

Your participation in STEW-MAP is completely voluntary. Your personal contact information will not be made public in any way; it will only be used by the research team to contact you if we have questions about information you provide on the survey.

If you wish, your group or organization’s basic contact information and information about the place(s) you do stewardship work will be displayed as part of the online stewardship map for the region. This helps everyone see what groups are doing stewardship where. In section 2 of the survey, you may indicate whether or not you want your group’s information to be displayed on the online map.

If you would prefer to answer the STEW-MAP survey questions on paper or over the phone, please contact XXX.

STEW-MAP projects have already been done in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and Seattle, as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico; Valledupar, Colombia; and Paris, France. Please visit https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/urban/monitoring/stew-map/ to learn more.

Thank you for your time and participation!

Burden Statement

Paperwork Reduction and Burden Estimate: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 0596-0240. The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 30 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at 202-720-2600 (voice and TDD).

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To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

STEW-MAP Survey

Section 1: Contact information

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Your personal information is confidential. We will not share your name, personal email, personal phone number, or other identifying information with anyone outside of the research team. We may contact you if we have questions about information you provide on this survey.

Your Name:

Your Phone Number: ( _) -

Your E-mail:

Are you a member of a group or organization?

(We define a group as having two or more members. This survey is intended for groups and organizations, not for individuals working alone, as sole proprietors, or as independent contractors.)

Yes ____ No ____

If you are a member of a group with multiple programs, please answer for your entire organization. If you are a respondent from a national organization, please answer for your local chapter. If you answered no, you do not need to complete the rest of the survey. Please mail back the survey. Thank you for your time!

Section 2: Basic Information

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If you are not able to answer all of the questions, please reach out to someone else in your group or organization and ask them to fill out the survey.

Group/Organization Name: (required)

Website (if available):

Twitter handle (if available): __________________________________

Mailing Address: (with city/state/zip)

Group/Organization E-mail:

Group/Organization Phone Number: ( ) -

Does your group/organization wish to be on the online stewardship map?

The information associated with your group on the map will be limited to group information and stewardship territory, which will be addressed later in the survey.

Yes

Does your group do any of the following in the [name of study area] region? Please select all that apply.

Conserve or preserve the local environment (for example, hold a conservation easement, protect land or water)
Manage or take care of a place in the local environment (for example, a community garden, a block of street trees, an empty lot, a riverbank, a schoolyard, a forest preserve, a brownfield)
Transform local environmental systems (for example, reduce, reuse, recycle, compost, waste stream, sustainable energy)
Monitor the quality of the local environment (for example, monitoring air or water quality, dumping, species monitoring, or citizen science)
Advocate and/or plan for the local environment (for example, community planning, organizing, direct action, fundraising)
Educate the public about the local environment (for example, youth curriculum, adult curriculum, job training)
Participate in, partner with groups, or support other environmental work

Of these functions, what is your primary stewardship activity? (Select one)

Conservation
Management
Transformation
Monitoring
Advocacy
Education

If you selected none of the above, you do not need to complete the rest of the survey. Please mail back the survey. Thank you for your time!

What is your group’s legal designation?

Please choose the most appropriate response.

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Nonprofit organizations and community groups

501(c)(3) (or has applied)
501 (c)(4) (or has applied)
Group without 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) status (for example, a community garden group or block club)
Community board
School-affiliated group
Religious congregation (church, synagogue, mosque, etc), but not a 501(c)(3)

Government Entities

City/Local government
County government
State government
Federal government
Other government (e.g. NY-NJ Port Authority)

Private Firm

Private firm, for-profit business

Other

Other – please specify:

If you chose government entities or private firm you do not need to complete the rest of the survey. Please mail back the survey. Thank you for your time!

Section 3: Where your group works

Please describe in detail the boundaries of where your group has done stewardship work within the past year. Be as specific as possible and you can list multiple locations. *

For Example (Note for OMB, these are examples for one particular study area, but will be adjusted so as to be relevant for the particular study area):

—On Wyckoff St. between Court St. and Smith St;

—Lower Manhattan south of Canal St.;

—All of the community gardens in ZIP code 11205

—The Arthur Kill between Staten Island and New Jersey;

—Hudson River waterfront within the City of Yonkers

—The Croton Watershed;

—Bergen County;

—Town of North Hempstead parks

* If you have multiple programs in different sites or at different scales, please list each with corresponding programs (e.g. our education programs are citywide; we operate a compost facility at 1234 5th Avenue.)

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Does your group have a Geographic Information System (GIS) file showing the boundaries of where you have done stewardship work within the past year?

Yes ___ (if you check here, the research team will contact you to get the file)

No ___

In the last year, what sites has your group’s stewardship work focused on?

Please choose all that apply.

Water & Water-Related

Watershed / Sewershed
Stream / River / Canal
Waterfront / Beach / Shoreline
Freshwater Wetland
Salt Marsh

Land

Forest/Woodland
Park
Community Garden
Urban farm
Vacant land/Vacant lot
Brownfield
Athletic field
Playground
Dog run / dog park
Botanical Garden/Arboretum
Bike paths / Greenway / Rail-trail
Public Right of Way (sidewalk, street ends, traffic island, public plaza)
Street Tree
Flower box
Residential building grounds (apartment courtyard, back yard, etc.)
Schoolyard / Outdoor classroom
Grounds of public bulding other than school (e.g. city hall, library, hospital, rec center)
Building courtyard / atrium (e.g. privately owned public spaces)
Rooftop
Green Buildings

Building

Residential building grounds (apartment courtyard, back yard, etc.)
School yard or grounds; outdoor classroom
Grounds of public building other than school (e.g. city hall, library, hospital)
Courtyard / Atrium / Plaza
Green buildings
Rooftop
Brownfield property
Recreation center
Other – please specify:

Systems Related

Waste system (e.g., e-waste drop off location)
Sustainable energy system (e.g., solar array, windmill)
Food system (e.g., grocery stores, CSA, compost site)
Storm water management system

None of the above

Of these, which is the primary site type on which you work?

Please select one.

[REPEAT THE LIST]

Who is the owner of the primary property or properties on which your group has done stewardship work within the past year?

Please choose one.

City/Local government
County government
State government
Federal government
Other government (e.g. NY-NJ Port Authority)
Individual
Corporation (including joint ventures, real estate investment groups)
Nonprofit
We work across public and private lands
Don't know
Other – please specify:

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Section 3: Where your group works

Section Group CharacteristicsGroup Characteristic

What does your group work on?

Please choose all that apply.

Animal related
Arts, culture, creative practices
Community improvement and capacity building
Crime, criminal justice
Economic development
Education
Emergency management and disaster response
Employment, job related
Energy efficiency
Environment
Faith-based activities
Food
Housing and shelter
Human services (including day care, family services)
International, foreign affairs, and national security
Legal services, civil rights
Power / Electricity generation
Private grantmaking foundation
Public health (including mental health, crisis intervention, health care)
Recreation and sports (including birding and fishing)
Research in science and/or technology
Seniors
Toxics/pollution related
Transportation
Youth
Other — please specify

If you had to choose just one activity, what would you say is your group's primary focus?

Please choose one.

[REPEAT THE LIST]

Describe the mission of your group. If you have a formal mission statement, please use that, otherwise use your own words to describe your group’s goals: (200 words or less)

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Considering all of the programs, activities, and services your group works on, what percentage of your group’s effort has been for environmental stewardship during the past year?

Please select one.

0%
1-19%
20-39%
40-59%
60-79%
80-100%

What year was your group founded?

Note: for national or regional groups/organizations please tell us the approximate year your chapter was founded.

Approximately how many of the following does your group have?

Note: for national groups/organizations please provide regional information.

Full-time Staff:

Part-time Staff: Members: Regular Volunteers:

Note: regular volunteers are those who routinely volunteer in your group/organization's activities. This is different from volunteers who may come out for a single work day.

Please estimate the total number of volunteer hours contributed per month.

Hours:

Section 5: Networking

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Please tell us about your group/organization's relationship to other groups/organizations. Please list one group/organization per box, additional boxes will appear if you need them.

Please list groups/organizations with which you regularly collaborate on stewardship or environment-focused projects or programs. These may be community-based groups, nonprofits, private companies, faith-based organizations, etc. You can list as many as you wish.

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[On the electronic version of the survey, additional entry slots will continue to appear as the existing ones fill up until the respondent has listed as many organizations as they wish.]

Please list group/organizations that you go to for advice, data, or expertise related to stewardship or environmental issues. You can list as many as you wish.

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[On the electronic version of the survey, additional entry slots will continue to appear as the existing ones fill up until the respondent has listed as many organizations as they wish.]

Please list groups/organizations/agencies from which you have gotten funding. You can list as many as you wish.

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[On the electronic version of the survey, additional entry slots will continue to appear as the existing ones fill up until the respondent has listed as many organizations as they wish.]

Section 6: Impacts

What changes does your group want to achieve from its stewardship activities?

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Does your group track metrics about your activities? (e.g., number of trees planted, number of schools visited, number of acres conserved, number of volunteers/event)?

Yes
No
I don’t know

If yes, please list all metrics that your group tracks:

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Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements, as they relate to your organization:

Our group has improved the following social outcomes in the community(ies) where we work:

Community Participation

Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree I don’t know/not applicable

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Trust between neighbors

Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree I don’t know/not applicable

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ☐

Influence on Policy and Programs

Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree I don’t know/not applicable

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ☐

Our group has improved the following environmental outcomes in the community(ies) where we work:

Plants and habitat quality

Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree I don’t know/not applicable

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ☐

Air and/or water quality

Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree I don’t know/not applicable

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ☐

Land protection

Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree I don’t know/not applicable

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ☐

Urban system sustainability (e.g., food systems, waste systems, energy systems)

Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree I don’t know/not applicable

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Section 7: Other Influences

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Please tell us how influential the following plans and programs have been on your group’s work. (Note for OMB – these will be completed depending on the particular study area.)

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