§101120 — Title 54 National Park Service and Related Programs | U.S. Code

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The National Park Foundation must set up and run a program to help and promote local fundraising and support for individual park units. It must help create local nonprofit support groups and give them national guidance and management advice. The program must cover as many park units as practical and, at minimum, provide three things: an adaptable organizational plan, model legally sound bylaws and money-handling rules that can be changed for each park, and a standard training curriculum for local staff and volunteers. The Foundation must report on the program each year in its annual report. No nonprofit or friends group has to change how it operates or join the Foundation. Any formal partnership is optional and only the nonprofit’s governing board can approve it.

Title 54, §101120

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(a)The National Park Foundation shall design and implement a comprehensive program to assist and promote philanthropic programs of support at the individual System unit level.

(b)The program under subsection (a) shall be implemented to—

(1)assist in the creation of local nonprofit support organizations; and

(2)provide support, national consistency, and management-improving suggestions for local nonprofit support organizations.

(c)The program under subsection (a)—

(1)shall include the greatest number of System units as is practicable; and

(2)at a minimum shall include—

(A)a standard adaptable organizational design format to establish and sustain responsible management of a local nonprofit support organization for support of a System unit;

(B)standard and legally tenable bylaws and recommended money-handling procedures that can easily be adapted as applied to individual System units; and

(C)a standard training curriculum to orient and expand the operating expertise of personnel employed by local nonprofit support organizations.

(d)The National Park Foundation shall report the progress of the program under subsection (a) in the annual report of the Foundation.

(e)(1)Nothing in this section requires—

(A)a nonprofit support organization or friends group to modify current practices or to affiliate with the National Park Foundation; or

(B)a local nonprofit support organization, established as a result of this section, to be bound through its charter or corporate bylaws to be permanently affiliated with the National Park Foundation.

(2)An affiliation with the National Park Foundation shall be established only at the discretion of the governing board of a nonprofit organization.

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 10112016 U.S.C. 19o.Pub. L. 90–209, § 11, as added Pub. L. 105–391, title VII, § 701, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3520.

§101120 Promotion of Local Fundraising Support

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