Partners

Our primary partners include:

USDA Forest Service
The Cooperative Forestry Staff, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, connects people to resources, ideas, and one another so they can care for forests and sustain their communities. Cooperative Forestry provides technical and financial assistance to help rural and urban citizens, including private landowners, care for forests and sustain the communities where they live, work, and play. Through partnerships with State forestry organizations and many others, Federal funding is leveraged to help produce a variety of forest-based goods and services, such as recreation, water, wildlife and fish resources, timber, and a variety of non-timber products to meet domestic and international needs. Cooperative Forestry contributes to healthy forests and livable communities near and through our Nation's forests.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service / National Conservation Training Center
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) trains and educates natural resource managers to accomplish our common goal of conserving fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats. As the "home of the Fish and Wildlife Service," NCTC brings exceptional training and education opportunities to Service employees and others. NCTC is a gathering place where conservation professionals from all sectors can learn together in an environment especially designed for them. Government, non-profit organizations, and corporations can come together in a non-threatening, collaborative setting to learn new skills, share perspectives, break down barriers, establish networks, find common ground, and move toward field-based solutions built on consensus and mutual interest.

National Park Service RTCA
The Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program, also known as the Rivers & Trails Program or RTCA, is the community assistance arm of the National Park Service. RTCA staff provide technical assistance to community groups and local, State, and federal government agencies so they can conserve rivers, preserve open space, and develop trails and greenways. The RTCA program implements the natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation mission of the National Park Service in communities across America.

NOAA Coastal Services Center
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center partners with state and local organizations to address coastal resource management issues, with particular focus on conservation and restoration, coastal and ocean planning, and coastal hazards. The Center’s primary areas of expertise include data and information, training, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and ocean observing system data use and distribution. The Center also has a strong training program that offers many classes to meet the technical and management needs of coastal managers. Most of these classes can be brought to the coastal community or are offered at the Center’s home office in Charleston, South Carolina.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3
The Environmental Assessment and Innovation Division (EAID) implements a number of programs. Most of them involve environmental data and information and/or creative approaches to solving environmental problems.

University of Florida, GEOPlan Center
The Geo-Facilities Planning and Information Research Center (GeoPlan) was established in 1984 by Dr. John Alexander in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida's College of Architecture. The Center was developed as a response to the need for a teaching and research environment in Geographic Information Systems, or GIS. Since its inception, GeoPlan has become a multidisciplinary GIS Laboratory. Faculty and Researchers from Planning, Landscape Architecture, Wildlife Ecology, Forestry, Botany and other departments utilize the lab's hardware and software to perform analyses and run models.

Urban Land Institute
The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide responsible leadership in the use of land in order to enhance the total environment. ULI, the Urban Land Institute, has pioneered many of the practices and techniques that have become the standards in the land use and development profession. Providing educational opportunities for real estate professionals, ULI's continuing education program includes workshops, the Real Estate School, and conferences.