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Dear NPLD Site Managers, Partners and Volunteers,
National Public Lands Day, now in its 17th year, is already the nation's largest singe-day volunteer event and it continues to grow. This year promises to be the biggest and best yet. We hope you have set September 25 in your calendars.
This year, our focus is to educate our estimated 175,000 volunteers about how climate change can affect public lands by offering online resources that everybody can use to educate themselves and others leading up to September 25 and beyond. We will also be showcasing recreational opportunities and health benefits that our public lands offer from places as large and majestic as Grand Canyon National Park to neighborhood parks around the block. But our primary goal for National Public Lands Day continues to be promoting volunteerism and service and, most of all, getting our hands dirty for our public lands! Registration is already open at www.publiclandsday.org. It's never too early to start planning. While you are at our site, give it a quick tour and check out some of the other things we are doing as we launch our Public Lands Program. Our "Capacity Building Grant" winners have just been announced and we have just launched our "Power of Friends" webinar series that offers land managers and friend organizations tools for organizational health.
Thank you for your continued support for and participation in the Public Lands Program and National Public Lands Day. Enjoy your public lands!
Robb Hampton
Director, National Public Lands Day
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Webinar Series 2010
View the "Power of Friends" Webinar Online |
 If you missed the Public Lands Program capacity building webinar, The Power of Friends: Building and Maintaining Partnerships That Work held on February 8 or would like to view it again, you are in luck. View the full webinar online here. We would also like to thank Cisco Webex for providing the technology to us to bring you these capacity building webinars. In addition, the Public Lands Program has provided resources including articles on increasing organizational capacity, strategic planning, fundraising feasibility studies, evaluation tools and hiring a consultant. View the resources here. Stay tuned for dates and times for upcoming webinars featuring the Association of Partners for Public Lands Training Corps. We will be finalizing dates soon.
- April - Providing Authentic Programs and Experiences through Partnerships
- June - Nonprofit Governance
- August - Fundraising and Friend Raising
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| Ten Winners Announced!
Public Lands Program Capacity Building Grants Awarded |
Ten nonprofit public lands "friends of" groups have been chosen to receive $1,000 Capacity Building Grants as part of the National Environmental Education Foundation's Public Lands Program. The Public Lands Program Capacity Building Grants provide funding to strengthen the organizational effectiveness of these community-based nonprofits who serve public land sites in the United States.
Grants will assist the groups with strategic planning, branding, communications and marketing, volunteer management and improved fundraising. These projects will advance the organizations' abilities to carry out their strategic goals and make them more sustainable.
- Continental Divide Trail Alliance, Granby, Colo.
- Friends of the Desert Mountains, Palm Desert, Calif.
- Friends of Fairsted, Inc., Brookline, Mass.
- Friends of Fort McHenry, Inc., Baltimore, Md.
- Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Louisville, Ky.
- Nevada Outdoor School, Winnemuca, Nev.
- San Mateo Coast Natural History Assoc., Half Moon Bay, Calif.
- Selway-Bitterroot Foundation, Kamiah, Mont.
- Wild South, Double Springs, Ala.
- Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers, Philadelphia, Pa.
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| Roanoke Watershed Grants
Public Lands Program Grants: Apply by March 1, 2010 |
| The Public Lands Program announced that grants of $2,000 - $4,000 will be awarded to community-based nonprofits located in the Roanoke River watershed. Nonprofit organizations must meet the grant eligibility requirements and make the best case for how the funds will engage the community in improving the health of the Roanoke River watershed.
Watershed improvement can take many forms, including, but not limited to, planting riparian zones or other shoreline vegetation, removing invasive species and maintaining recreational areas. Find out more and download an application. | |
The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) provides knowledge to trusted professionals who, with their credibility, amplify messages to national audiences to solve everyday environmental problems. Together, we generate lasting positive change.
NEEF partners with professionals in health, education, media, business and public land management to promote daily actions for helping people protect and enjoy the environment. Through our primary programs- Classroom Earth, National Public Lands Day, National Environmental Education Week, Business and Environment, Earth Gauge®, and Health and Environment- we offer Americans knowledge to live by. To learn more, call (202) 833-2933 or visit www.neefusa.org.
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Our Program
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National Public Lands Day is the nation's largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve America's public lands. NPLD began in 1994 with three federal agencies and 700 volunteers. On Sept. 26, 2009, 150,000 volunteers lent a hand at more than 2,000 locations across the nation. Join us for the next National Public Lands Day on Sept. 25, 2010. National Public Lands Day is now part of a broader Public Lands Program which aims to increase the capacity of public lands stewards to engage local communities to help care for our public lands. The Public Lands Program will provide online training resources, networking opportunities and small grants to increase the capacity of friends groups to work more effectively with public land managers and strengthen the reach of National Public Lands Day. |
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| National Sponsor |
Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. operates under a Global Earth Charter which was set forth to promote environmental responsibility for every aspect of the company and significantly reduce the impact that Toyota's vehicles have on the planet.
In line with their commitment to environmental responsibility, Toyota has sponsored the National Public Lands Day program for 12 consecutive years. They have also sponsored tour grants and the Public Lands Program Capacity Building Grants. Going above and beyond their sponsorship, Toyota has also encouraged their employees to get involved in NPLD activities throughout the nation by helping to care for parks, forests, rivers, beaches, shorelines and other public lands. In September 2009, over 3,100 Toyota employees volunteered at 37 different public land areas in 17 states and in Puerto Rico. Read more about Toyota's strong commitment to the environment and their support of National Public Lands Day. |
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| Contributing Sponsor
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Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide.
Through its partnership with National Public Lands Day, Northrop Grumman employees across the nation will join together to improve and enhance public lands, supporting the company's corporate responsibility efforts in embracing green initiatives and translating values into action. | |
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