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Events, Training, Networking & Workshops
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Workshop
Ins and Outs of Restricted Gifts
About this Session: Negotiating, documenting, or tracking restricted gifts are often part of our everyday work as land trusts. In this workshop, three accredited land trusts will share information and experiences about financial restricted gifts. Presenters will deliver a brief overview of definitions, key concepts and applicable sections of Land Trust Standards & Practices (2017).…
Land Trust Law School — Tree Law, Encroachments, etc.
About the session: Attorney Keith Ainsworth leads the discussion on the legal strategies and tools available to land trusts, environmental organizations and landowners seeking to protect, assert and know their rights. This workshop will cover laws and regulations, and will review the broad history of cases that illustrate how Connecticut’s courts have shaped the law.…
Doing Deals 101: An Intro to the Connecticut Model Conservation Easement and More
About this session: Ideal for newcomers or those needing a refresher, this workshop will provide an introductory overview of conservation easements, guided by CLCC’s revised model Connecticut Conservation Easement (CE). Intended for use by the state’s land conservation community, the model CE was developed with a goal of standardizing language as much as reasonably possible…
Doing Deals: Advanced Topics Q&A
About this session: Land conservation projects are often complex deals raising tough legal, financial, and governance issues. This session is an opportunity to ask experienced land conservation attorneys the advanced questions most pressing to your land trust’s land acquisition efforts, including those related to: easement drafting, conflicts-of-interest, private inurement/private benefit, title searches, appraisals and Form…
Connecticut Risk Management Initiative — Information Session
The Land Trust Alliance and CLCC are collaborating to bring risk management support to your land trust, through the Connecticut Risk Management Initiative. This new program is designed to help land trusts ensure the permanency of their work by understanding and identifying risk, and assessing current risk management strategies through a series of online sessions.…
Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative – Weekly Sessions
The Land Trust Alliance and Connecticut Land Conservation Council are collaborating to bring the Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative to you and your land trust! This new program is designed to help land trusts ensure the permanency of their work by understanding and identifying risk, and assessing current risk management strategies through a series…
Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative – Weekly Sessions
The Land Trust Alliance and Connecticut Land Conservation Council are collaborating to bring the Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative to you and your land trust! This new program is designed to help land trusts ensure the permanency of their work by understanding and identifying risk, and assessing current risk management strategies through a series…
Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative – Weekly Sessions
The Land Trust Alliance and Connecticut Land Conservation Council are collaborating to bring the Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative to you and your land trust! This new program is designed to help land trusts ensure the permanency of their work by understanding and identifying risk, and assessing current risk management strategies through a series…
An Invitation to Join Writing the Land
Writing the Land is a collaborative project between land trusts and artists to help raise awareness for the preservation of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity. The program helps poets “adopt” a conserved property, partnering them with a land trust for the calendar year. Poets visit the properties and create poems inspired by the land. At the…
Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative – Weekly Sessions
The Land Trust Alliance and Connecticut Land Conservation Council are collaborating to bring the Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative to you and your land trust! This new program is designed to help land trusts ensure the permanency of their work by understanding and identifying risk, and assessing current risk management strategies through a series…
Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative – Weekly Sessions
The Land Trust Alliance and Connecticut Land Conservation Council are collaborating to bring the Connecticut Land Trust Risk Management Initiative to you and your land trust! This new program is designed to help land trusts ensure the permanency of their work by understanding and identifying risk, and assessing current risk management strategies through a series…
Introduction to FarmLink for Land Trusts
Want to get to know how the CT FarmLink program can help you? Are you interested in hearing about the benefits of leasing Land Trust-owned farmland to farmers? Join CLCC and CT Farmland Trust for an online introduction to the FarmLink program, and how FarmLink can help match your land trust to a farmer who…
