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WHY
PARTNERSHIPS?
The NFF Partnership Guidebook
The issues around the management
of public lands are not simple. The problems and
solutions have become so complex that agency employees
and partners often cannot achieve success working
alone. Bringing in partners to collaborate on
solutions to sticky problems often results in
better ecological, economic and social outcomes.
Furthermore, partnerships increase the ability
of both the Forest Service and partners to accomplish
their respective missions, goals and objectives.
The purpose of this guidebook is to help both
Forest Service employees and current and potential
partners better understand partnerships and the
tools and guidelines each need to consider when
entering into and maintaining a partnership.
The book is an outcome of the National Forest
Service’s National Partnership Task Force
and serves as an easy reference tool for practitioners
and external partner organizations. Topic areas
in the book include, but are not limited to:
- Agency partnership policies and principles.
- Partnership definitions and terms.
- Introduction to Partnership Resource Center.
- Description & summary of partnership authorities
- Conducts and Ethics related to partnerships.
- Guidelines/Checklist for working with Grants & Agreements Specialists.
- Guidelines for understanding agreement formats.
- Guidelines for overhead assessments.
- What you need to know about contracting with partners.
- Procedures for accepting gifts and donations.
- Guidelines for appropriate recognition of donors & acknowledgement of gifts.
- Role of employees when working with partners who are fundraising to support agency projects and/or programs.
- Planning & conducting Public Lands Day projects with partners.
Click here for
the Partnership Guidebook.
To learn more about becoming a partner with the
Forest Service through NFF Partnership Programs,
click here>>
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