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Resource Library

Welcome to River Network's Resource Library; a growing compilation of manuals, publications, web pages, articles, videos, presentations and more available to you. You can browse through our resources by scrolling through our list of categories, or use the search filter to type in a specific keyword. If you have a resource to share, please contact us!

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Title & Source	Description
2007 Salary Survey - River & Watershed Conservation Organizations Katherine Luscher	In October 2001, River Network conducted its first salary survey of its Partner organizations.
An Integrated Strategy for Nonprofit Success and Sustainability Shelli Bischoff-Turner of Conservation Impact	Written by Shelli Bischoff-Turner of Conservation Impact, this brief article outlines the importance of integrating organizational capacity, identity, and constituent outreach in achieving next lev
Basic Considerations in Risk Management Carter McNamara, PhD	Carter McNamara's article provides an overview of risk management and what an organization should be looking for in risk management assessments including financial, volunteer, fundraising and resou
Catalogue of Federal Funding Sources for Water Protection US EPA	A searchable database of financial assistance sources (grants, loans, cost-sharing) available to fund a variety of watershed protection projects.
Collaboration: A Guide for Environmental Advocates Wilderness Society; Audubon	This 71-page resource outlines appropriate situations for engaging in collaborative processes and describes best practices and proven strategies for successes in collaborative natural resources dec
Community Tool Box: Action Agenda National Park Service - RTCA	An action agenda, or action plan, is an annotated list of proposed outcomes often presented in a chart form.
Community Tool Box: Active Listening National Park Service - RTCA	Learn the basics of making a conscious effort to hear, analyze, assign meaning to and respond to what another person is saying.
Community Tool Box: Art Projects National Park Service - RTCA	This resources outlines the basics of incorporating art projects into your organization's work.
Community Tool Box: Awards National Park Service - RTCA	Awards are a valuable inspirational and motivational tool and also a way of expressing gratitude to individuals and organizations that have gone above and beyond in their efforts.
Community Tool Box: Brain Storming National Park Service - RTCA	Learn the basics of idea generation and information gathering through a free-flowing, energetic, creative exchange.
Community Tool Box: Break-out Groups National Park Service - RTCA	A breakout group is the result of dividing a large gathering of people into smaller groups.
Community Tool Box: Charettes National Park Service - RTCA	This resource introduces you to how to facilitate a charette--an intensive brainstorming session where participants share their ideas for improving natural and/or cultural resources.
Community Tool Box: Conferences & Symposiums National Park Service - RTCA	This resource provides the basic steps to planning and running a conference, including naming a chairperson and committee, recruiting speakers, and selecting a facility.
Community Tool Box: Defining Issues National Park Service - RTCA	This resource outlines the basics of defining the issues that your group will focus on.
Community Tool Box: Displays National Park Service - RTCA	Displays can be a great outreach tool for your organization.
Community Tool Box: Festivals National Park Service - RTCA	Although organizing it can be labor intensive, a festival can be a way of starting a community tradition and reaching people who are not normally involved with a particular cause or organization.
Community Tool Box: Field Trips National Park Service - RTCA	This resource explains how field trips can be an integral part of your organization's strategy to protect a resource or area, by bringing together a diverse group of people who care or are curious,
Community Tool Box: Flip Charts Natural Resources Conservation Service	The basics of recording people's comments, opinions and ideas for purposes of group discussion.
Community Tool Box: Focus Groups National Park Service - RTCA	This resource will introduce you to focus groups as a means to generate ideas and obtain people's questions and opinions.
Community Tool Box: Goal Setting National Park Service - RTCA	This resource outlines the basic steps of group goal setting--people working together to transform a vision, purpose or desire into discrete statements of direction.
Community Tool Box: Ice Breakers National Park Service - RTCA	The basics of short activities intended to help a group of people become acquainted with one another.
Community Tool Box: Meetings National Park Service - RTCA	This resource will teach you how to organize and facilitate a productive meeting including how to create an agenda, how to assign roles to meeting participants, and how to keep the group on time an
Community Tool Box: Networking Database National Park Service - RTCA	This resource will teach you the basics of starting and maintaining a networking database.
Community Tool Box: Newspaper Questionnaires National Park Service - RTCA	This resource outlines the process for using a newspaper questionnaire to raise awareness about your group or obtain public feedback.
Community Tool Box: Open Space National Park Service - RTCA	This resource will instruct you in how to organize an open space meeting.
Community Tool Box: Partnerships National Park Service - RTCA	Building partnerships is key to the success of any community based project. This resource will guide you through the steps involved with forming and strengthening partnerships.
Community Tool Box: Postcard Mailings National Park Service - RTCA	This resource will provide you with the basics of using postcard mailings as part of your outreach strategy.
Community Tool Box: Presentations National Park Service - RTCA	Many people lack public speaking skills and are intimidated to get up and talk to a group, in spite of the importance of communicating their message to a wider audience.
Community Tool Box: Press Conferences	In this Community toolbox created by the National Park Service's Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance program you will learn how to take a positive approach in working with the media and ho
Community Tool Box: Public Surveys National Park Service - RTCA	This resource provides the basics for conducting public surveys, whether face-to-face, telephone, or by mail.
Community Tool Box: Setting Priorities National Park Service - RTCA	This resource will help you determine what matters most to individuals, a community or a resource.
Community Tool Box: Speakers' Bureau	A speakers' bureau is when volunteers make presentations about a specific topic, project or resource at regularly scheduled meetings of other groups such as civic and church groups.
Community Tool Box: Stakeholder Analysis	This resource provides the basic steps in identifying and involving stakeholders in a project planning process.
Community Tool Box: Videos National Park Service - RTCA	This resource explains how and when to use videos as a tool for promoting your organization and projects.
Community Tool Box: Volunteers National Park Service - RTCA	Enthusiastic volunteers are essential to the efficient functioning of non-profits and community organizations, as they help groups accomplish more.
Community Tool Box: Work Plans National Park Service - RTCA	A work plan is a list of tasks necessary to complete a project and the projected schedule for task completion.
Community Tool Box: Workshops National Park Service - RTCA	Learn the basics of workshops: a combination of presentations and interactive sessions that bring people together to work towards a consensus on an issue or topic.
Coping with Cutbacks: The Nonprofit Guide to Success when Times are Tight Amherst H. Wilder Foundation	Condensed from the book of the same name, this page offers readers a strategies checklist to be used as a thinking tool for direct action.
E-Advocacy for Nonprofits: The Law of Lobbying & Election Related Activity on the Net	A publication of the Alliance for Justice that explains the laws and limits pertaining to 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 organizations that are lobbying and carrying out election-related activity on the Inter
From Strategic Planning to Strategic Positioning Shelli Bischoff-Turner of Conservation Impact	Strategic positioning enhances traditional strategic planning by incorporating a more externally-focused and constituent-centered analysis.