The phrase "a helpful effort" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an attempt or action that is beneficial or supportive in achieving a goal.
Example: "The team made a helpful effort to improve communication among departments, resulting in a more efficient workflow."
Alternatives: "a constructive attempt" or "a supportive endeavor."
After too much of this helpful effort, my grandmother turned to the saleswoman and said, "Madam, I am they".
This cordial letter to Roger Baldwin of September 27 , 1917from Felix Frankfurter, an official in the War Department, thanks Baldwin and other civil libertarians for their helpful efforts and expresses confidence that the concerns of the Civil Liberties Bureau will be resolved.
Helpful efforts included informational and instrumental support provided to workers from family members.
25 This supports MB being used as a helpful drug for efforts in malaria eradication.
Gauging Extremes The journal Nature has published a helpful update on scientists' efforts to narrow one of the biggest gaps in climate science — the inability to reliably gauge the role of greenhouse-driven warming in determining the intensity of the kinds of extreme climate events that matter most to societies — from hurricanes to heat waves.
The growing question facing cancer researchers is, "How can we successfully integrate the molecular, morphologic and clinical characteristics of human cancer to produce a helpful tumor classification?" Current efforts to classify cancers based on molecular features ignore lessons learned from millennia of experience in biological classification.
The power of Johnston's images tends to reduce Ms. Weems's efforts to a helpful, mind-clearing decompression chamber; but it's not certain that the conclusions her installation inspires aren't already available, just beneath the surface, in the earlier photographs.
Also, China has been a helpful part of the global recovery effort.
Generally, if the author made a good faith effort to write a helpful and informative page, it doesn't hurt to give them a nice pat on the back with a Rising Star.
The survey, interview guide, and document analysis were easy to implement and the knowledge generated from them was felt to be a helpful contribution to improving priority setting efforts.
The results should be helpful in efforts to exploit the medicinal value of the species.
