Tag: Land Trust Alliance
Join the Connecticut Land Conservation Council and fellow Connecticut colleagues for a casual dinner in Cleveland! As in past years, we’re organizing an informal gathering for our Connecticut crew to catch up, share stories, and enjoy a good meal together. We’ll be dining at Butcher and the Brewer, and we’d love to save you a…
Read MoreJoin us on Tuesday, April 8 for a 75-minute panel discussion on best practices for working with appraisers in land conservation. Designed for land trust staff and board members involved in land protection, this session will feature insights from experienced land protection practitioners, Alliance staff, and seasoned appraisers. We’ll introduce a new resource to help…
Read MoreThe U.S. Treasury published new regulations that have important implications for land trusts working on easement or land donations from pass-through entities, such as a partnership or limited liability company. These regulations are dense, complicated and open to further interpretation, but the basic takeaway is that, in certain circumstances, land trusts may need to report…
Read MoreThe Land Trust Alliance has made available the Framework and Resources for Change, a tool to help land trusts organize learning and grow critical Diversity, Equity and Inclusion competencies, no matter where they are in their learning journey. Thanks to generous funding of an anonymous foundation and other individual donations, the Alliance hosted a webinar…
Read MoreTogether, land trusts have established a set of guidelines for how to run a land trust responsibly: Land Trust Standards and Practices. These guidelines describe how to operate a land trust legally, ethically and in the public interest, with a sound program of land transactions and land stewardship. Land trusts developed the first Standards in…
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