On September 1, 2008, NNPS will raise fees for new members to join NNPS and for selected benefits and services. To date, grants to NNPS’s research team have helped subsidize member services. In its next phase of development, NNPS must cover the costs of program facilitation and benefits for members.
Research and fieldwork conducted over the past five years have identified a range of services that districts and schools need to succeed with partnership program development. The new fee structure will offer members options for basic and advanced facilitation agreements.
As one example, membership fees will increase to $200 per school and $300 per district. This increase, the first since 2002, will enable NNPS to continue providing new members with a copy of the Handbook for Action, and all members with annual books of Promising Partnership Practices, semi-annual, Type 2 newsletters, monthly e-briefs, on-call phone and e-mail consultations, and other basic communications from the “home base” at Johns Hopkins University. Conference registration fees will change according to rising hotel costs. In the fall, members will be offered options for consultation packages for start-up and advanced training and for special services.
The scheduled changes will make NNPS’s facilitation services self-supporting. In this way, NNPS will be able to continue to assist all members to build their capacities for conducting effective and permanent partnership programs.