Priority votes received by Wingspread participants: 4

How this is important spreading certified Family Forests:.

Two-Year Goal: Develop up to 10 case studies that provide examples of family forest certification models that can be replicated and enhanced. The case studies would be made available through the Alliance.

Lead individual/organization: Katie Fernholz, Dovetail Partners (on behalf of the Alliance)

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

Strategy addresses what current barriers? Lack of information about existing models.

And/or builds on what opportunities? Potential for replication

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

Key measures to track (to know a change is an improvement)? Development and distribution of information made available on Alliance website.

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 framework	- Dovetail Partners (on behalf of the Alliance)	·
By End of 2007	·Drafts of up to 10 case studies	·	·
By Summer of 2008	·Distribute case studies	·	·

Additional Action Plan Notes:

• Include actual or links to templates of various documents, organizing, policies…Look for commonalities: How is it delivered? Who administers it & how? What’s the cost? What are the underlying policies driving the entity? What are the enabling factors in their success? What problems have they had? Organize case studies by defining characteristics that indicate which audiences may find them most relevant.
• Dovetail Partners (on behalf of the Alliance) has added the tasks associated with this action plan to its workplan for staff and interns.