The Michigan Farmers Market Association (MIFMA) created the following Data Collection Toolkit for Market Managers who want to collect, analyze, and share data to advance their market’s mission. The Toolkit…

Policy is often touted as the great equalizer, creating opportunities for all, regardless of their race. Yet evaluating a policy’s capacity to address racial equity is not easy. The Johns…

This resource page from Rural Health Information Hub offers a list of community institutions that might offer data to support a community needs assessment in a rural community, and goes…

This Resource Guide from Community Action Partnership provides a long list of resources around planning, conducting, and evaluation the results from a community needs assessment. Resources are drawn from a…

From the Washington State Farmers Market Association, this 10-page guide helps anyone creating surveys to think about the process from start to finish, going over evaluation aims, sampling types, question…

This webinar for produce prescription program and snap incentive program grantees will provide an overview of IRB requirements and structure, guidance for grantees in finding and working with local IRBs,…

The research article from the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition surveyed market managers to assess what data collection tools and strategies they use to evaluate their markets.

From Growing Hope, this Ypsilanti Farmers Market evaluation plan is an example of how to lay out all of the data collection and evaluation tools that you will use during…

From the BC Association of Farmers Markets and VanCity Community Foundation, this comprehensive toolkit helps markets think through the process of evaluating impact, offers many downloadable survey tools, and gives…

Collecting information about your market vendors helps you tell the story about the impact your farmers market is having on your community.