USACE/PLA Partnership Workshop Presentations

The following is a selection of papers and presentations from the annual training workshops. Each new workshop has evolved and expanded on the previous ones.

2017-2024 Corps Forum Updates

• 2017
• 2018
• 2020
• 2021
• 2022
• 2023

2012

• Contribution Plans are a Winning Hand
• Creating a Cooperating Association at your Project
• Handshake Partnership Program
• How to Prepare a Winning Handshake Application
• Friends Group Success Stories
• Partnering with Your Local University
• Partnerships with the Health/Medical Community
• SWL Partnership Program-Financial Aspects
• Handshake Partnership: Lake Allatoona and American Chestnut Foundation
• Handshake Partnership: Paynes Creek Multi-Purpose Trail
• Partnerships with the Military
• NRM Gateway Partnership Pages

2011

• Partnering with Your Local University
  • ASU Safety Video
  • Interview 1
  • Interview 2
• W. Kerr Scott Lake Handshake Projects
  • Fish Dam Creek Video
  • Radio Partner
• How the USACE and NPS are Using Social Media
• American Chestnut Foundation: From MOU to Field Work
• Partnerships 101
• Granger Lake Handshake Project
• Challenge Partnership Handshake Program Update
• Little Rock District Handshake Projects
• Raystown Lake Handshake Projects
• MG Grisoli - America’s Great Outdoors
• Corps Session Notes

2010

Course Introductions, Attendance, Evaluation, Presenters
• Agenda
• Partnership Team & course presenter bios
  Thursday Morning Presentation Materials
• Partner Engagement
• Social Networking for Public Lands Handout
• SCA Partnerships
• Partnership in Action - Lake Ouachita Field Office
• Partnerships at Rathbun Lake, Iowa
  Thursday Afternoon Presentation Materials
• Partnership – Ft. Worth District
• Contributions, Fundraising and Recognition Reference Guide
• Developing Grants With Your Partners
• Lake Mendocino/Coyote Dam Handshake Application
• Warm Springs Dam/Lake Sonoma Project Grant Proposal
• Grant Resources
  Friday Morning Presentation Materials
• Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Education Foundation
• Handshake Partnership Program
• Handshake List
• Philpott Lake Challenge Partnership Projects

2009

• Workshop Agenda
• Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Education Foundation
• Handshake Partnership Program
  Handshake Recipients FY04-09

  Preserve America's Waterways, National Youth Marine Alliance (NYMA)

  NYMA Flyer

  Handshakes

  Philpott Lake, Wilmington District

  W. Kerr Scott

  Tennessee Tombigbee

  National Public Lands Day

  Southwest Division Partnerships

  Student Conservation Association Intern Case Study

2008

• Single Revenue Sources
• Governance for Non-Profit Boards
  • Board Member Orientation Checklist
  • Application For Appointment To The Board Of Directors
  • Board Manuals
  • Effective Board Meetings
• Children in Nature
  • No Child Left Inside
  • Back to Nature
  • A Report On The Movement To Reconnect Children To The Natural World

2007

• Workshop Agenda
• Building Partnership Capacity
• Partnership Ethics 101
• Partnership Evaluation Tool
• Partnership Agreement Definitions
• Partnership Program Briefing Materials
• View of a Non-Profit
• Partnership Divorce

2006

• Workshop Agenda
• Advancing Cooperative Conservation
• How To: A Process for Successful Partnerships
• Partnerships Authorities and Tools
• Partnerships Policies and Resources
• Partnership Advisory Committee
• Mapping Community Assets

2005

• Workshop Agenda
• Partnership chekclist & Milestones in the planning/implementation process
• Partnerships and How to Approach Them NPO Manager
• Partnerships and How to Approach Them Federal Manager
• Randolph Sheppard Act FAQs

2004

• Workshop Agenda
• Fund Raising Resources on the WWW
• Corporate Partnerships presentation
• Corporate Partnerships Worksheet
• Real Estate 101
• USACE 2012 Strategic Communications by S. Stockton
• Value to the Army and the Nation - a "leave behind" with key messages and contact information that can be used for congressional visits
• Partnering 101
• Understanding For-Profit Partnerships

Cultural Awareness

• Cross-Cultural Awareness Handout
• Native American Cultural Awareness

Technical Problems
Updated: December 2023