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Pacific Coast Joint Venture Discretionary Fund Categories
Coordination
– Joint venture partner’s work with other federal and state agencies, tribal groups, private organizations, corporations, and landowners to build and sustain the joint venture partnership.
Planning
– Biological planning allows joint ventures to develop science-based conservation strategies for habitat and population management. This is accomplished through the development and integration of explicit conservation goals, at eco-regional and local scales that address the needs and priorities identified in national or international bird conservation plans. These products help managers provide the right resources, in the right places and right amounts, for the targeted species.In addition to biological planning, joint venture partners engage in operational or business planning to build and maintain their organizational health and productivity. These plans guide overall direction; provide a logical framework that connects all the functional elements; and establish measures of achievement.
Project Development and Implementation
- On-the-ground delivery of conservation programs and projects is the principal activity of most joint venture partners. Many joint venture projects involve multiple partners who share the cost of a proposed action, but single agencies, organizations, and individuals also achieve significant results by redirecting their existing efforts in ways that contribute to JV goals and objectives. The role of the joint venture is to focus both new and existing programs on the integrated objectives derived from joint venture biological planning instead of the single purpose or broadly-defined goals of various available funding sources. A product of joint ventures partnerships is the replacement of opportunistic pursuit of habitat gains with conservation by design.A basic premise of the joint ventures is that other federal programs and non-federal partners fund on-the-ground joint venture projects. However, the PCJV may provide seed money to encourage partners to participate in new, innovative, or high priority projects that meet JV objectives. Joint venture funds used for habitat work are targeted on areas where they will have the greatest benefit, thereby encouraging partners to focus on these joint venture priorities as well.
Project seed money
- Should be funds necessary to make a project happen such as appraisals, surveys, permits, rather than direct acquisition or habitat manipulation.
Communications and Outreach
- Internal and external communications help joint venture partners promote their activities at the local, regional, and national levels. Internally, joint venture partners work to develop a common understanding of both the concepts and details of the JV’s conservation design, within the agencies and organizations of the JV partnership. This is often accomplished through meetings and workshops, JV newsletters, and accomplishment reports. Externally, joint ventures must build and maintain connections with other public and private entities, and the public at large to achieve support for JV goals and the actions of JV partners. These links are also vitally important for joint venture partners to gain public input and as necessary, address emerging issues related to the activities of the joint venture. Examples of outreach products include public exhibits, congressional field days, youth education activities, brochures, conservation forums, festivals, and periodic accomplishment reports.Pacific Coast Joint Venture Discretionary Funds Application 2007 (PDF Format)