This thirty-four paged resource posted on the RWJF Connect Policymaker Outreach website is about what’s permissible for 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, and 527s, in the context of social media, blogs, websites and other technologies. This publication was created to address the many questions nonprofit organizations have about advocacy in the new environment of dynamic digital communication. Available […]
This agreement outlines how a public health director position will be shared between two New York counties by working collaboratively toward fiscal responsibility balanced with public health services delivery. The agreement can be used as a template for other jurisdictions interested in sharing staff. Available online (pdf): phsharing.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SharedStaffAgreementNYDraft.pdf
This document outlines the 2012 organizational restructure committee’s starting principles of agreement, primary areas of consideration (i.e., governance, budget and finance, programs and services, personnel/staff issues, community partnerships, and physical facilities/offices), and proposed timeframe for exploring restructuring three health departments covering five counties in order to assure the current and future presence of a strong […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Public Health Laboratories co-sponsor the Laboratory Efficiencies Initiative (LEI), which is working to ensure a sustainable public health laboratory system. The group considers interstate test service sharing to be one of the most promising strategies for improving efficiency at public health laboratories. To assist […]
This resolution authorizing one county health department to participate in a pilot project with another county to share a public health director and deputy public health director was created by two New York counties to outline their commitment to provide quality essential public health services effectively to their residents with the acknowledgement that fiscal pressures […]
This article identifies that responding to an emergency requires societal coalescence and cohesion to optimize effectiveness. Local, state, territorial, tribal, federal and international jurisdictional levels have to cooperate with each other in ways that are distinct from the norm in order to maximize resource utilization and minimize response time. Available online: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This template provides a tool for thinking about and creating an interlocal agreement for a joint regional support network (RSN) through identifying its purpose, duration and termination, powers and responsibilities, risk management issues, property administration, financing, and membership parameters.
This is an agreement to purchase services between the State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the City of Portland, Maine, creating an arrangement where the City of Portland agrees to provide specified public health services for the Strategic National Stockpile Program for a specified geographic area.
This is an agreement between a town and city creating a contractual arrangement for the city to provide specified public health services on behalf of the town.
This agreement lists what the Tri-County Environmental Consortium agrees to do, such as restaurant inspections, and the responsibilities of its agents when they are acting on its behalf. It was developed by the Northwoods Shared Services Project in Wisconsin, a member of the Center’s Shared Services Learning Community.