April 8, 2015

Important Questions for a Collaborative Process

This tool is ideal to guide the start-up or launch phase of a collaborative group or effort.

April 8, 2015

Fiscal Sponsorship - Doing it Right

Fiscal sponsorship can go beyond just managing money and providing a vehicle for fundraising—fiscal sponsors can also provide legal, administrative, and programmatic oversight. The services a fiscal sponsor provides depend on your needs and the practices of the sponsoring organization. This tool helps develop a good fiscal sponsorship relationship.

April 8, 2015

Factors Influencing Successful Collaboration

This evaluation form is useful for collaborative groups desiring to self-assess collaborative success.

April 8, 2015

Self-Monitoring Tool for Nonprofit Boards

This tool was adapted from "Benchmarking Your Organization's Development," by the Institute for Conservation Leadership.

April 7, 2015

FACA Committee or Community-based Collaborative?

This best practice outlines one choice that must be made when structuring your collaborative effort - the decision to be a committee that’s chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act or a community-based collaborative.

April 7, 2015

Five Life Stages of a Nonprofit Organization

This tool outlines the the five life stages of nonprofit organization, and can help build your organization by detailing "Where You Are, Where You’re Going, and What to Expect When You Get There."

April 7, 2015

Adaptive Management Technical Guide

In an effort to make better decisions, learn mid‐stream from the impacts of those decisions, and involve communities of interest and place in stewardship efforts, the Department of the Interior developed a tool called “Adaptive Management: The U.S. Department of the Interior Technical Guide.”

April 7, 2015

U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution

The U.S. Institute, under federal law, helps federal agencies and other affected stakeholders address environmental disputes, conflicts, and challenges through programs and services that provide situation assessments; conflict resolution; facilitated collaboration; and capacity building, including training and program assessment.

April 7, 2015

Lemhi County Forest Restoration Group Multiparty Monitoring Plan

This multiparty monitoring plan established a framework for how monitoring activities and protocols would be conducted in Hughes Creek on Salmon-Challis National Forest lands and on adjacent private lands.

April 7, 2015

Holland Pierce Project Multiparty Monitoring Plan

The Swan Ecosystem Center in Montana conducted multiparty monitoring to determine how well the Forest Service explained to the public the purposes and methods of the Holland Pierce Fuels Reduction and Forest Health timber sale in the Swan Valley.

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Important Questions for a Collaborative Process

Fiscal Sponsorship - Doing it Right

Factors Influencing Successful Collaboration

Self-Monitoring Tool for Nonprofit Boards

FACA Committee or Community-based Collaborative?

Five Life Stages of a Nonprofit Organization

Adaptive Management Technical Guide

U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution

Lemhi County Forest Restoration Group Multiparty Monitoring Plan

Holland Pierce Project Multiparty Monitoring Plan