Matching Gift Challenge

Double Your Impact to Save the Places You Love!

There has never been a more important time to contribute to the Land Trust Alliance, the only organization that can help increase the pace, quality and permanence of conservation efforts in every community across America.

To meet this challenge, we must raise $2,200,000 in  undesignated gifts and pledges from our community of individual supporters, so we can give your community what it needs to save its most cherished places while the window of opportunity remains open.

When you make a gift to the Alliance today, you double the impact of your support for land conservation.

Because for a limited time, a group of our generous donors have pledged to match every gift you make so it can go twice as far.¹

Your commitment of $10, $35*, $500, or even $25,000 will grow to $20, $70, $1,000, or $50,000 right when we need it most!

The window for land conservation is rapidly closing. We need everyone who cares about land and land trusts actively involved in strengthening your Land Trust Alliance.

When you support the Land Trust Alliance today:

You help your neighbors choose conservation over development!

Every day, families in your community face a hard decision whether to conserve or develop their land. The choice they make can never be changed. In 2005, we convinced Congress to enact a historic tax incentive that makes conservation an affordable option for all landowners, and it has greatly multiplied the number of acres put into conservation! But this current incentive is slated to expire on December 31,2009. We need your help to make it a permanent part of the tax code!

You help your community be at the forefront of conservation.

As your community debates the fate of each remaining farm and natural area, who will be the voice for conservation and what knowledge and training can they rely on to win the fight? If you want your community to be a leader in land conservation, it cannot afford to work in isolation or reinvent the wheel.  With your help, the Alliance can deliver 100 years of nationwide learning in conservation to your land trust to give it the competitive advantage needed to effectively save land.

You help ensure that lands protected today stay protected for all time.

As land becomes more scarce and valuable, some will seek to develop protected places at any cost. Is your land trust prepared to single-handedly defend your community’s hard won conservation achievements? Are the investments you’ve made in land protection truly permanent?

Your contribution is needed today to help implement a national Conservation Defense Program that will shape the most important court decisions in favor of conservation and set legal precedent for your local courts to follow for all time.

Today you can take a step to make certain that your children and grandchildren enjoy the benefits of natural places you helped save in your lifetime.

Thank you for supporting the Land Trust Alliance today and making your generosity go twice as far during the 2008 Matching Gift Challenge!

Questions? Contact Suzanne Erera at 202-638-4725, or e-mail serera@lta.org.

¹All contributions from individuals made on or after April 1, 2008 and not designated for a specific program will be matched, up to the established cap, until all the Challenge pledges have been secured.

*$35 is the basic individual membership contribution. Learn more about individual membership.