Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Why Measure?
Chapter Three: Measurement Vocabulary and an Overview of the Measurement Process
Chapter Four: Getting to Goals
Chapter Five: Indicators of Progress
Chapter Six: Indicator Analysis for Ordinary People
Chapter Seven: Creating Measures that Matter
Chapter Eight: Developing a Measurement Plan
Chapter Nine: Getting the Information You Need
Chapter Ten: Actions - Re-Measurement – Interpretation
Appendix 1: Causal Looping
Appendix 2: Suggestions for Implementing the YGWYM Approach Virtually

About the Author

Shanna Ratner is an established author; Principal and Founder of Yellow Wood Associates Inc.; Member of the Aspen Institute’s Learning Cluster on Rural Community Capacity Building; Member of the first class of Donella Meadows Fellows in Systems Thinking; and a Mel King Fellow class of 2012-2013 at MIT.