Section 101120 - Promotion of local fundraising support(a) PROGRAM.-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) IMPLEMENTATION.-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) PROGRAM.-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) ANNUAL REPORT.-The National Park Foundation shall report the progress of the program under subsection (a) in the annual report of the Foundation.(e) AFFILIATIONS.- (1) CHARTER OR CORPORATE BYLAWS.-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) ESTABLISHMENT.-An affiliation with the National Park Foundation shall be established only at the discretion of the governing board of a nonprofit organization. Pub. L. 113-287, §3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3122.| HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 101120 | 16 U.S.C. 19o. | Pub. L. 90-209, §11, as added Pub. L. 105-391, title VII, §701, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3520. |