---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 101120"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "101120"
heading: "Promotion of local fundraising support"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/101120"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1011 — Donations"
  - "Subchapter II — National Park Foundation"
---

# §101120. Promotion of local fundraising support

- (a) **Program.—** The National Park Foundation shall design and implement a comprehensive program to assist and promote philanthropic programs of support at the individual [System unit](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) level.
- (b) **Implementation.—** The program under [subsection (a)](#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) **Program.—** The program under [subsection (a)](#a)—
  - (1) shall include the greatest number of [System units](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) 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](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6);
    - (B) standard and legally tenable bylaws and recommended money-handling procedures that can easily be adapted as applied to individual [System units](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6); and
    - (C) a standard training curriculum to orient and expand the operating expertise of personnel employed by local nonprofit support organizations.
- (d) **Annual Report.—** The National Park Foundation shall report the progress of the program under [subsection (a)](#a) in the annual report of the Foundation.
- (e) **Affiliations.—**
  - (1) **Charter or corporate bylaws.—** 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) **Establishment.—** An affiliation with the National Park Foundation shall be established only at the discretion of the governing board of a nonprofit organization.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3122.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 101120 | 16 U.S.C. 19o. | Pub. L. 90–209, § 11, as added Pub. L. 105–391, title VII, § 701, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3520. |