Association of Partners for Public Lands
Engaging the public in caring for our nation's natural and cultural resources

Driving Forces - Sourced
 

During the 2004 APPL convention, a task force was formed to draft a standardized agency reporting form that cooperating associations, interpretive associations, and friends organizations could use to report their contributions to their agency partners. The task force, comprised of representatives of APPL member organizations and each of the public land agencies, agreed to the following concepts:

• The standardized report would be based on the IRS 990 reporting form. It would replace the NPS 10-40 and other similar agency report forms currently used.

• A set of guidelines and forms for reporting would be developed to ensure consistency between all not-for-profit partners. All not-for-profit partners would be required to submit the report to each of the agencies they serve, along with a copy of their IRS 990 form.

• The reporting would be done on a national level, shown by agency served.

• The purpose of a standardized reporting form is to streamline reporting to multiple agencies -- reducing the reporting burden, while at the same time providing beneficial information to the agencies.

The task force has done an excellent job, with special assistance from Chesley Moroz and Jack Ryan of Eastern National, who have taken the input from the group and put it into the formats attached below.

• Introduction & Instructions

• Forms

The GAO report on NPS practices regarding Cooperating Associations and Friends groups was released to the public on August 18, 2003, 30days after being sent to the House Resources Committee. It is available on the GAO website at www.gao.gov. It's titled Park Service: Agency Needs to Better Manage the Increasing Role of Nonprofit Partners (GAO-03-585).

APPL Member Directory

A directory of APPL's Full and Affiliate Members. Additions and corrections will be published in Newswire as they are received.

Archived issues of Newswire  for 2006 and 2007.