Location: Ventura, California

Course Description:
This 3-day interagency course provides the tools and processes needed to build a sustainable funding strategy for federal land management agency partners. This course is intended to advance your federal, public/private and non-profit partnership and foster partnership commitment.

Participants will analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to their partnership, and apply these results in formulating a strategic plan. Participants will draft a business plan that will focus on the opportunities to generate sustainable funding revenue.

Topics include:

1. Authorities, accountability, mission overlap and governance structure of federal agencies and non-profits.
2. Federal agency and non-profit cultures ~ how these affect budget and performance when partnering on sustainable revenue generating activities.
3. SWOT analysis (strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats) as the first-step in developing a strategic plan.
4. Strategic planning ~ Decision trees and timetables that help the process.
5. Internal and external factors that impact the selection of revenue generating opportunities for the business plan.

Target Audience: This is an advanced course for federal agency and nonprofit partners engaged in a active partnership. Participants must have experience in revenue generation in a partnership. Federal participants are encouraged to bring their non-profit partner.

Costs: No tuition costs but participants are responsible for all travel expenses.

How to Apply: Registration for Federal employees and non-profit participants must be completed on-line at the DOILearn system. Non-federal participants must register as non-federal guests in the public catalog menu of DOILearn.

For more information about the course and lodging, click on the announcement.