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.

April 7, 2015

Cat Creek Multi-Party Monitoring Protocol

The Cat Creek Stewardship Project (Cat Creek project) was a collaboratively designed forest restoration project in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southwest Washington State. This resource document shows the project's monitoring protocols, which were designed to be an evaluative tool for local stakeholders to monitor and assess the socio-economic and ecological impacts of the project.

April 7, 2015

Running an Effective Collaborative Meeting

The effectiveness of meetings plays a vital role in the success of a collaborative group. It’s important to pay attention to the details of meetings because they are very expensive events in terms of people’s time and travel. Plus, no one wants to go to a poorly run meeting, and there can be enough challenges in finding agreement without struggling over preventable issues.

April 7, 2015

Forest Service & Non-profit Share an Employee

The Ochoco National Forest shares a permanent, full-time Forest Service hydrologist with the Crooked River Watershed Council (CRWC) through a Participating Agreement. This best practice outlines the details and steps the Ochoco took to develop the agreement.

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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

Cat Creek Multi-Party Monitoring Protocol

Running an Effective Collaborative Meeting

Forest Service & Non-profit Share an Employee