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Table Mountain Inn      September 5-7, 2012      Golden, CO

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Overview | What's A Partnership Academy? | What Will Be Covered? | What Are the Learning Objectives? | Who Should Attend? | How Much Will It Cost? | Why APPL? Why This Training? | How Do We Enroll?

Overview

What’s a Partnership Academy?

The Partnership Academy is an intensive, three-day workshop designed to engage leadership from nonprofit partner organizations along with key agency staff to focus on taking their partnerships to the next level.

Such a collaborative arena, frequently discussed but seldom implemented, offers participants a free exchange of ideas and experiences among peers within the context of the training process.

Consistent with APPL’s educational mission, this training provides a comprehensive approach to developing partnership competencies and accountability that complements existing training activities, educational resources, and informational tools.

What Will Be Covered?

• Partnership Dynamics: developing and maintaining mutually strong yet independent organizational missions that are aligned toward achievement of acommon vision.

• Leadership and Governance: developing a partner-leader culture and an understanding of the roles of nonprofit staff, board, and agency leadership.

• Strategic Planning: planning in tandem with and among partners. 

• Operational Management: establishing a sound and sustainable partnership, with an emphasis on nonprofit and agency budgetary and financial management, human resources, and operational capacity.

• Policies that Enable: understanding federal and state policies that govern nonprofit partnerships, from nonprofit legal and ethical considerations, to federal lands agency policies and agreements, to public accountability.

• Organizational Readiness and Accountability: assessing organizational and partnership performance, readiness for change, and determining next steps for building additional capacity.
  

What are the Learning Objectives?

The academy is designed to help you achieve the following learning objectives:

• Understand the benefits, challenges, and potential of nonprofit organizations aligned with public lands agencies
• Inspire participants to consider and adapt methods and programs effectively undertaken by friends groups, cooperating associations, field schools and other partnerships around the country
• Develop a shared vision and strategies to implement at your site(s)
• Reference agency and nonprofit policies and agreements appropriate to various partner functions
• Overcome real and perceived barriers to partnership success
• Build and maintain trust in your partnerships

Who Should Attend?

• Public land agency staff with partnership responsibilities (superintendents, chiefs, supervisors, partnership coordinators)

• Leadership staff from nonprofit public land partner organizations (executive directors, managers, and board members)

Partner organizations include, but are not limited to friends groups, cooperating or interpretive associations, field schools, trail organizations, and heritage areas.

Benefits are maximized when agency and nonprofit staff from the same site attend together.

How Much Will It Cost?

Early registration, until July 31, 2012 is $295 for the three days, exclusive of lodging, meals, and transportation. Regular registration fee of $325 applies on or after August 1, 2012.

A 10% discount is available for groups of 5 or more attendees registered and paid for as a group from the same nonprofit organization or agency office. Please submit registrations at the same time.

To fully benefit, participants must be involved for the entire three days of training, and therefore, partial registrations are not available.

The Partnership Academy will be held at the Table Mountain Inn in Golden, Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and just 15 minutes from downtown Denver. A lodging rate of $139 per night (government per diem) is available until July 31, 2012. Call 1-800-762-9898 and ask for the APPL room block to make your reservation.

Cancellations and requests for refunds must be made in writing and received by APPL no later than August, 17 2012. Cancellations should be sent to cbenjamin@appl.org.  A $30.00 processing fee will be deducted from all refunds.  Registrations may be transferred to another person by writing to APPL in advance or by presenting a written notice at the Academy.  Refunds will not be issued for no-shows.

Why APPL? Why This Training?

APPL dedicates itself to modeling the best practices of public-private partnerships, nonprofit governance and management. For more than 30 years, APPL has demonstrated its effectiveness as a central resource and as an organization, developing a strong core curriculum and expertise unique to the public lands community.

APPL’s curriculum and instruction is based upon the field experiences of its membership, best practices in nonprofit management, and an understanding of the policies guiding public-private partnerships within the context of public lands agencies. As the only formal institution that has members who are site-based partners with units across the federal land agencies, we bring a particular expertise to our training for the federal employee and the nonprofit partner alike.

How Do We Enroll?

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