Priority votes received by Wingspread participants: 13

How this is important for spreading certified Family Forests: Captures best practices/lessons learned and makes available to many others.

Two-Year Goal: Develop links to existing materials (template management plans, monitoring guides, etc.) that can be made available at Alliance website. (Future work may include identifying gaps in existing materials and the development of new resources.)

Lead individual/organization: FSC Family Forests Alliance Dovetail Partners (web host)

Supporting Partners: (please add name if want to play active role on moving this strategy forward) Alliance members and partners

Strategy addresses what current barriers? Lack of access to best practices information.

And/or builds on what opportunities? Alliance as a clearing house for best practices on group certficiation.

A few example(s) of where model or elements are being practiced well today? Community Forestry Resource Center.

Key measures to track (to know a change is an improvement)? Website resource center is up and running and regularly updated; Certification metrics; # of participants.

To move it quickly forward (through a test or to spread to other early adopters):

	Key Next Steps?	Involves Who?	Date Complete?
By End of August 2007	·Develop outline for website that can link to existing resources from established group certificate managers	·Dovetail Partners (web host) and Alliance Core Organizers	·31 Aug 2007
By End of 2007	·Establish website with existing resources and identify gaps in existing information	·Dovetail Partners (web host)	·31 Dec 2007
By Summer of 2008	·Identify opportunities to develop additional resources to address gaps	·Alliance members and partners	·1 June 2008

Additional Action Plan Notes: Dovetail Partners has incorporated these tasks into staff and intern work plans.