Best Practices
Friends Resource Kit
This online Friends Resource Kit is designed to provide the board, staff and volunteers of nonprofit Friends groups with the tools and resources needed to grow and strengthen your organization. From templates and samples, to our Friends in Focus fact sheet series which explores in-depth topics, to links to key resources, there's something here for every organization. If you have a suggestion for a topic not covered, let us know!
Nonprofit/Friends Management
- PTNY Fact Sheets/Guidance Documents
- 501(c)3 Dos & Don'ts
- Templates/Sample Documents
- Links
Board Governance
- PTNY Fact Sheets/Guidance Documents
- Taking Your Organization to the Next Level NYCON Presentation
- Governance in Volunteer Organizations
- Directors' & Officers' Insurance - NYCON
- Key Features of the NY Nonprofit Revitalization Act 2017
- Templates/Sample Documents
- Links
Development and Fundraising
- PTNY Fact Sheets/Guidance Documents
- Winning Hearts and Minds Presentation by Judy Anderson
- Successful Individual Membership Giving Program
- How to Create Power Packed Thank You Letters
- Links
Communications and Technology
- PTNY Fact Sheets/Guidance Documents
- Technology and Fundraising Resources
- Links
- Guide to Working with the Media (Corporation for National and Community Service)
Volunteer Management
- PTNY Fact Sheets/Guidance Documents
- Templates/Sample Documents
- Links
Funding Sources
- Links
- Consolidated Funding Application
- This is the application process for certain OPRHP, Canal Corporation, and DOS grant programs.
- Grants.gov (search engine for federal grants)
- Park and Trail Partnership Program capacity-building grants, funded through the New York State Environmental Protection Fund and administered by Parks & Trails New York (for Friends groups of New York State Parks and Historic Sites and public lands)
- Consolidated Funding Application