§ 101120. Promotion of local fundraising support

• (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.