District Guides

NACD's mission is to serve conservation districts by providing national leadership and a unified voice for natural resource conservation.

Designed with conservation district needs in mind, these guides provide helpful hints for district activities. We are continually creating and searching for useful tools for districts, so check back regularly for new guides.

District Program Evaluation Guide (as mentioned in the Fall 08 Edition of The Resource)
Evaluation is crucial to ensure your district's operations are as running as efficiently and effectively as possible. NACD has put together a district program evaluation guide to help your district board to rate the district’s effectiveness in accomplishing its objectives within the community. This process allows for the district board and employees to become aware of your district's strengths and weaknesses and to identify individual areas that may need to be addressed.

Board Diversity: Adding Diversity to the Conservation Partnership
Sometimes the entire community is not aware of the great things the partnership is engaged in on their behalf or they don’t think the partnership can help. If this is your situation, check out this guide and find out what you can do to recruit new board members and generate interest.

Conservation District Board Member Recruitment and Community Outreach Guide
Community outreach is at the heart of building a strong and responsive district program that provides the best possible customer service to the people in your community. The Community Outreach guide is a good source of information the importance of community outreach and the recruitment process.