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, tools, and best practices to help establish and sustain success in these important local relationships.
Specific components of this toolkit include:
Success factors: Highlights key success factors for developing and sustaining effective partnerships with friends groups.
Frequently asked questions: Addresses key questions and clarifies issues related to successfully working with friends groups.
Guide to agreements: Provides brief descriptions and a decision tree of the most commonly used partnership agreements within the BLM.
Partnership profiles: Provides summaries of BLM/friends group partnerships and highlights challenges, lessons learned, and best practices.
Agreement templates: Provides a friends group partnership agreement template that is recommended for use when formalizing a partnership between the BLM and a friends group and provides a supplemental partnership agreement template that is recommended for use when a friends group uses BLM property.
