Pollinator Partnership

The Pollinator Partnership is the largest organization working to protect the health of managed and native pollinating animals vital to our North American ecosystems and agriculture. The Pollinator Partnership (P2) website is a premiere source of information for consumers, gardeners, land managers, educators, resource managers, producers, and farmers to help pollinators, essential components for all of life. As one of its many projects, P2 manages the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, a collaborative group of over 120 organizations and individuals that promote and implement a continent-wide action plan to encourage activities to protect the numbers and health of all pollinating animals.

In twenty years, we will have a sustainable and equitable world for people and pollinators, with foo

Goal One: Connect our programs to environmental issues that affect pollinators (such as climate change, soil health and water quality) and to increase habitat and best management practices for pollinators.

Goal Two: Define, develop, and implement staff and administrative infrastructure and increase administrative support through IT/HR/Finance expertise.

Goal Three: Create and enact a three-year development plan and establish a risk mitigation policy and process with annual review for compliance.

Pollinator Partnership has recently invested in professional coaching for a number of Director-level supervisors and project managers. Professional coaching not only encourages overall career and personal development but it also helps focus on integral improvements within the organization and in the staff's day to day. This contributes to more support for supervisors and their reports. Additionally, Pollinator Partnership recently had all staff participate in a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training that will help leadership best execute our programs in an equitable manner.

Given the Biden Administration's emphasis on the mitigation of Climate Change, our largest federal partner, USDA, has updated many of their programs to focus on Climate Smart Agriculture. We agree with this change of scope and decided to align ourselves with this emphasis and have since taken stock of our agricultural programs to see how we may also update them with a stronger emphasis on Climate Smart Agriculture and regenerative practices. Much of this was a relatively easy lift for us since our program's objectives were already aligned, however for our funders and for our members, we felt it was important to be more explicit and keep consistent messaging with our largest federal partner.