Engaging with Communities in Public Land Stewardship, Bureau of Land Management
A Toolkit for Building and Sustaining Effective BLM Partnerships with Friends Groups (February 2020) Purpose of This Toolkit: Due to the challenges of multiple-use management on public lands, the BLM benefits significantly from a partnership approach. This toolkit seeks to address and clarify partnership issues and needs, encourage partnerships with friends groups, and provide guidance, […]
Partner Culture Awareness
Listen to this video as a podcast. Seek to understand the seven attributes of organizational culture: Mission, Practice, People, Governance, Financial Capacity, Tradition and Institutional History. Consider how you introduce elements of your organization’s culture to new and long-standing partners as your organization changes over time. Assess the gaps in your understanding of a partner’s […]
Enhanced Skills in Natural Resource Negotiation
This training course presents participants with advanced principles, skills, and techniques used in natural resource negotiation. The focus of the course is threefold: 1) strategy development, 2) personal skill enhancement, and 3) effective management of negotiating teams. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Apply negotiation strategies to a variety of natural resource […]
Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide (2019)
By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. The Partnership Impact Model™ includes the 11 Partnership Impacts, Scaling Up Partnership Impact, the Partnership Impact Roadmap, and the 7 Steps of Partnership Impact Evaluation. The 11 Partnership Impacts is a framework that explicitly highlights the collection of impacts that landscape-scale stewardship partnerships should consider when it comes […]
Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years (2018)
By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. One Tam’s vision that we can do more for Mt. Tam together, working across boundaries, than we can alone was affirmed in the findings of a four-year (2014-17) independent study—Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years—on the impact and value of partnerships. One […]
Evaluating Partnerships in Conservation
Introduction, The Interplay, and Logic Models highlight evaluation concepts including Wicked Problems and the Theory of Change as well as tools related to planning, implementing and assessing the conservation activities of partnerships. Assessment reveals concepts that support an evaluator’s toolkit including Random, Quasi and Natural Experiments. Learn more about qualitative and quantitative choices in data […]
Nonprofit Fundraising and Public-Private Partnerships
Listen to this video as a podcast. Learn more about the various methods nonprofits use to attract financial support. Consider the top ten reasons individuals and organizations contribute to nonprofits. Increase your understanding of how nonprofit representatives use the term “fundraising” to mean a variety of activities that differ from the Federal Ethics definition of […]
Fundraising Agreements, Policies and Practices
Fundraising agreements are specific to each federal agency. A closer look at the practices of the National Park Service provides insight on the Authorities, Policies and Practices of BLM, USFWS and USFS. Learn more about how the NPS agreements differ as it relates to the fundraising goal as well as the nature of the relationship […]
The Tamalpais Lands Collaborative Case Studies (2014-2017)
By Leigh Goldberg Public land agencies have collaborated for many decades, both informally and formally through inter-agency agreements, to share resources, equipment, staff, and information. Recently, we have seen an emergence of more deliberate partnerships with their own identities and priorities and a commitment to building durable relationships. Interest in partnerships is especially growing where […]
USDA Forest Service Handover Memo
The Forest Service’s handover memo process enables an outgoing agency leader to share information with their replacement. The challenge of rotating Forest Service line officers is a well-known barrier to community and forest‐level collaboration. It takes time to develop good relationships, and when a key agency contact is transferred, a collaborative effort can stall out […]
