Partnerships
The Alliance maintains strategic partnerships with government agencies, private businesses and nonprofit organizations. Our programs and partnerships leverage our work on the ground, and provide unique links for land trusts to increase awareness about the importance of land conservation in America.
The three largest professional appraisal organizations in the United States and the Land Trust Alliance entered into a formal agreement to help ensure the quality of appraisals used in connection with conservation easements. The centerpiece of the collaboration is a new certificate program for appraisers, which will raise the bar for easement appraisals and increase understanding about the appraisal process for such easements.
The purpose of this online resource is to provide information and networking opportunities to advance communication and collaboration among coastal conservation groups in ways that will empower groups to (1) raise the profile of coastal conservation through active networking and (2) expand and accelerate comprehensive, strategic coastal conservation through the exchange of information.
Expert Link is the Land Trust Alliance's online directory in which members of the land trust community can seek out professional assistance from Alliance-member companies. If you have any questions about your listing, or being listed in Expert Link, please contact the Membership Coordinator at 202-638-4725 x 331 or e-mail bzerfas@lta.org.
Land Trust Accreditation Commission
The Land Trust Accreditation Commission was established as an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance in 2006 to operate a voluntary accreditation program to verify that land trusts are meeting the indicator practices. The Alliance encourages all land trusts to follow the entire set of Land Trust Standards and Practices and to adopt them as guiding principles for their organizations.
NatureServe and the National Geographic Society have collaborated to develop LandScope America, a website that promises to empower people to explore natural places from their desktop in exceptionally vivid and useful ways. The Land Trust Alliance has helped this effort by providing advice and guidance to the effort and connecting the LandScope America developers with land trusts in target areas.
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