Talk:National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium

Comment
The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium is not part of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Program. The NAFTC has received funding for projects from both the DOE and Clean Cities and has (as their missions are so closely aligned) partnered with Clean Cities on several initiatives, such as National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day Odyssey.

The NAFTC is a program of West Virginia University that creates and provides curriculum on all alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles, manages a consortium of roughly 40 member schools to disseminate the information to a wider audience, and conducts outreach events to promote the use of alternative fuel vehicles. The NAFTC is the only nation-wide alternative fuel vehicle training consortium in the United States.

Request Edit - Separate National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium page
The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) and NAFTC pages both redirect to the Clean Cities page. This is misleading.

The NAFTC is not part of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Program. The NAFTC has received funding for projects from both the DOE and Clean Cities and has (as their missions are so closely aligned) partnered with Clean Cities on several initiatives, such as National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day Odyssey.

The NAFTC is a program of West Virginia University that creates and provides curriculum on all alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles, manages a consortium of roughly 40 member schools to disseminate the information to a wider audience, and conducts outreach events to promote the use of alternative fuel vehicles. The NAFTC is the only nation-wide alternative fuel vehicle training consortium in the United States.

A correct page should be for the organization would be title with the full organization name: The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium.


 * Yes, I see your point. I started a stub article from the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium redirect, which seems to be the correct name from the logo, organization name, and publisher at the bottom of the page (i.e., without the leading "The"). If that's not right though, let me know.


 * There are two redirects to the page, NAFTC, which seems to be a no-brainer. And from what I read, National Alternative Fuels Training Laboratory seems correct.


 * If you would like to have some of the information not currently in the article (see the verbiage now highlighted in green) and can find newspapers, books, independent industry sites or other reliable sources for that info, I would be happy to add it. (It wasn't great to use the NAFTC site as one of the sources, but I wanted to ensure the info was correct - and thought that since it's backed up by a newspaper article we should be good.)-- CaroleHenson (talk) 13:58, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

First, thank you. We so appreciate that you took the time to correct our entry. There are still just a few requested changes with the current information to make our information correct.

I’ve put everything together into one long message to try to make our request as efficient as possible. I think the message looks a lot more extensive than it is.

From Overview, paragraph 1 – “Information is conveyed to local communities through material developed in partnership with high schools, community colleges, and universities.” – It would be more correct to say that we work with subject matter experts to develop curricula and supplemental materials. The subject matter experts may be members of schools, but we haven’t worked directly with schools to create these materials.

From Overview, paragraph 2 – “National Park Service, U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Program, Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, and Smithsonian Institution were the national partners for the 2014 event held in Washington, D.C. The event was sponsored by American Honda Motor Company and the Propane Education and Research Council.” – Is it possible to delete this section? While these are the partners and sponsors for the event in 2014, there may very well be different sponsors and partners in the future as there have been in the past. To be fair, we would prefer that all of them throughout the years were listed, or none.

Awards – A more complete list includes:

2013 – Automotive Training Manager’s Council’s National Excellence in Training Award for The Clean Cities Learning Program Petroleum Reduction Technologies

http://www.atmc.org/page-743517

2013 – MarCom Platinum Awards for National Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) Day Odyssey 2012; National AFV Day Odyssey 2012 Executive Summary; and Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/platinum/2013

2013 – MarCom Gold Award for Mobile & Web-Based Technology/Mobile App with its First Responder Quick Reference Guide App

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/gold/2013

2014 - Automotive Training Manager’s Council’s National Excellence in Training Award for Electric Drive Vehicle Automotive Technician’s Training

http://www.atmc.org/page-743517

2014 – MarCom Platinum Award for Clean Cities Learning Program (CCLP) Marketing and Communications Plan

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/platinum/2014

2014 - MarCom Gold Award Alternative Energy Learning Center

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/gold/2014

“Categories: Western State Colorado University” – Should be “Categories: West Virginia University”

“See also – Yellowstone-Teton Clean Energy Coalition” – It would be more correct to include the general Clean Cities entry here rather than single out one coalition. We routinely work with the coalitions across the country.

If you need anything else, information or citations, let me know. We really appreciate all of the work that you have done for the NAFTC entry and for Wikipedia. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.73.174.54 (talk) 15:11, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

I think that I may have left a message incorrectly above. I'm sorry. Let me try it again here. The text below is the same as the comment I added above.

First, thank you. We so appreciate that you took the time to correct our entry. There are still just a few requested changes with the current information to make our information correct.

I’ve put everything together into one long message to try to make our request as efficient as possible. I think the message looks a lot more extensive than it is.

From Overview, paragraph 1 – “Information is conveyed to local communities through material developed in partnership with high schools, community colleges, and universities.” – It would be more correct to say that we work with subject matter experts to develop curricula and supplemental materials. The subject matter experts may be members of schools, but we haven’t worked directly with schools to create these materials.

From Overview, paragraph 2 – “National Park Service, U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Program, Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, and Smithsonian Institution were the national partners for the 2014 event held in Washington, D.C. The event was sponsored by American Honda Motor Company and the Propane Education and Research Council.” – Is it possible to delete this section? While these are the partners and sponsors for the event in 2014, there may very well be different sponsors and partners in the future as there have been in the past. To be fair, we would prefer that all of them throughout the years were listed, or none.

Awards – A more complete list includes:

2013 – Automotive Training Manager’s Council’s National Excellence in Training Award for The Clean Cities Learning Program Petroleum Reduction Technologies

http://www.atmc.org/page-743517

2013 – MarCom Platinum Awards for National Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) Day Odyssey 2012; National AFV Day Odyssey 2012 Executive Summary; and Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/platinum/2013

2013 – MarCom Gold Award for Mobile & Web-Based Technology/Mobile App with its First Responder Quick Reference Guide App

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/gold/2013

2014 - Automotive Training Manager’s Council’s National Excellence in Training Award for Electric Drive Vehicle Automotive Technician’s Training

http://www.atmc.org/page-743517

2014 – MarCom Platinum Award for Clean Cities Learning Program (CCLP) Marketing and Communications Plan

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/platinum/2014

2014 - MarCom Gold Award Alternative Energy Learning Center

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/gold/2014

“Categories: Western State Colorado University” – Should be “Categories: West Virginia University”

“See also – Yellowstone-Teton Clean Energy Coalition” – It would be more correct to include the general Clean Cities entry here rather than single out one coalition. We routinely work with the coalitions across the country.

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I think that I may have left a message incorrectly (a couple times) above. I'm sorry. Let me try it again here. The text below is the same as the comments I added above.

First, thank you. We so appreciate that you took the time to correct our entry. There are still just a few requested changes with the current information to make our information correct.

I’ve put everything together into one long message to try to make our request as efficient as possible. I think the message looks a lot more extensive than it is.

From Overview, paragraph 1 – “Information is conveyed to local communities through material developed in partnership with high schools, community colleges, and universities.” – It would be more correct to say that we work with subject matter experts to develop curricula and supplemental materials. The subject matter experts may be members of schools, but we haven’t worked directly with schools to create these materials.

From Overview, paragraph 2 – “National Park Service, U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Program, Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, and Smithsonian Institution were the national partners for the 2014 event held in Washington, D.C. The event was sponsored by American Honda Motor Company and the Propane Education and Research Council.” – Is it possible to delete this section? While these are the partners and sponsors for the event in 2014, there may very well be different sponsors and partners in the future as there have been in the past. To be fair, we would prefer that all of them throughout the years were listed, or none.

Awards – A more complete list includes:

2013 – Automotive Training Manager’s Council’s National Excellence in Training Award for The Clean Cities Learning Program Petroleum Reduction Technologies

http://www.atmc.org/page-743517

2013 – MarCom Platinum Awards for National Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) Day Odyssey 2012; National AFV Day Odyssey 2012 Executive Summary; and Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/platinum/2013

2013 – MarCom Gold Award for Mobile & Web-Based Technology/Mobile App with its First Responder Quick Reference Guide App

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/gold/2013

2014 - Automotive Training Manager’s Council’s National Excellence in Training Award for Electric Drive Vehicle Automotive Technician’s Training

http://www.atmc.org/page-743517

2014 – MarCom Platinum Award for Clean Cities Learning Program (CCLP) Marketing and Communications Plan

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/platinum/2014

2014 - MarCom Gold Award Alternative Energy Learning Center

https://enter.marcomawards.com/winners/#/winners/gold/2014

“Categories: Western State Colorado University” – Should be “Categories: West Virginia University”

“See also – Yellowstone-Teton Clean Energy Coalition” – It would be more correct to include the general Clean Cities entry here rather than single out one coalition. We routinely work with the coalitions across the country. 50.73.174.54 (talk) 20:46, 17 August 2015 (UTC)