Land Trust Alliance http://www.landtrustalliance.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 61 to 75. Free Tour: Pathways to Accreditation http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/free-tour-pathways-to-accreditation-2-20-13 Webinar Date: February 20, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM ET

Pathways to Accreditation is a private online meeting space where staff, volunteers, and board members can collaborate to complete an organizational assessment and develop policies to build a stronger organization. For land trusts on the accreditation path, the interactive Web site walks you through a series of activities and tasks designed to help you collect, prepare and coordinate the materials required for registration, the pre-application, and the application questionnaire.

Join us for a free online tour of Pathways to Accreditation in our monthly webinar, offered every third Wednesday at 1:00 PM ET. Email tlc@lta.org to register.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2013-01-12T00:10:00Z Event Free Tour: Pathways to Accreditation http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/free-tour-pathways-to-accreditation-1-16-13 Webinar Date: January 16, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM ET

Pathways to Accreditation is a private online meeting space where staff, volunteers, and board members can collaborate to complete an organizational assessment and develop policies to build a stronger organization. For land trusts on the accreditation path, the interactive Web site walks you through a series of activities and tasks designed to help you collect, prepare and coordinate the materials required for registration, the pre-application, and the application questionnaire.

Join us for a free online tour of Pathways to Accreditation in our monthly webinar, offered every third Wednesday at 1:00 PM ET. Email tlc@lta.org to register.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2013-01-12T00:10:00Z Event Free Tour: The Learning Center http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/free-tour-the-learning-center-6-18-13 Webinar Date: June 18, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM ET

Land conservation is a process- filled with many twists and turns. And we’re here to help you steer! Whether you have a quick question for our knowledgeable forum experts or need to dig deeper for sample documents and articles, the Learning Center will quickly become your land trust’s most valuable learning and information tool to get the information you need.

Don’t know where to start?  Take a free online tour of the Learning Center in our monthly webinar, offered every third Tuesday at 1:00 PM ET. Email tlc@lta.org to register.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2013-01-11T23:55:00Z Event Free Tour: The Learning Center http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/free-tour-the-learning-center-5-21-13 Webinar Date: May 21, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM ET

Land conservation is a process- filled with many twists and turns. And we’re here to help you steer! Whether you have a quick question for our knowledgeable forum experts or need to dig deeper for sample documents and articles, the Learning Center will quickly become your land trust’s most valuable learning and information tool to get the information you need.

Don’t know where to start?  Take a free online tour of the Learning Center in our monthly webinar, offered every third Tuesday at 1:00 PM ET. Email tlc@lta.org to register.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2013-01-11T23:55:00Z Event Free Tour: The Learning Center http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/free-tour-the-learning-center-3-19-13 Webinar Date: March 19, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM ET

Land conservation is a process- filled with many twists and turns. And we’re here to help you steer! Whether you have a quick question for our knowledgeable forum experts or need to dig deeper for sample documents and articles, the Learning Center will quickly become your land trust’s most valuable learning and information tool to get the information you need.

Don’t know where to start?  Take a free online tour of the Learning Center in our monthly webinar, offered every third Tuesday at 1:00 PM ET. Email tlc@lta.org to register.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2013-01-11T23:55:00Z Event Free Tour: The Learning Center http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/free-tour-the-learning-center-4-16-13 Webinar Date: April 16, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM ET

Land conservation is a process- filled with many twists and turns. And we’re here to help you steer! Whether you have a quick question for our knowledgeable forum experts or need to dig deeper for sample documents and articles, the Learning Center will quickly become your land trust’s most valuable learning and information tool to get the information you need.

Don’t know where to start?  Take a free online tour of the Learning Center in our monthly webinar, offered every third Tuesday at 1:00 PM ET. Email tlc@lta.org to register.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2013-01-11T23:55:00Z Event Free Tour: The Learning Center http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/free-tour-the-learning-center-1-15-13 Webinar Date: January 15, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM ET

Land conservation is a process- filled with many twists and turns. And we’re here to help you steer! Whether you have a quick question for our knowledgeable forum experts or need to dig deeper for sample documents and articles, the Learning Center will quickly become your land trust’s most valuable learning and information tool to get the information you need.

Don’t know where to start?  Take a free online tour of the Learning Center in our monthly webinar, offered every third Tuesday at 1:00 PM ET. Email tlc@lta.org to register.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2013-01-11T23:55:00Z Event Free Tour: The Learning Center http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/free-tour-the-learning-center-2-19-13 Webinar Date: February 27, 2013

Time: 1:00 PM ET

Land conservation is a process- filled with many twists and turns. And we’re here to help you steer! Whether you have a quick question for our knowledgeable forum experts or need to dig deeper for sample documents and articles, the Learning Center will quickly become your land trust’s most valuable learning and information tool to get the information you need.

Don’t know where to start?  Take a free online tour of the Learning Center in our monthly webinar, offered every third Tuesday at 1:00 PM ET. Email tlc@lta.org to register.

Rescheduled from third Tuesday to Wednesday, February 27 due to scheduling conflict.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2013-01-11T23:55:00Z Event Family, RMEF Protect Elk Habitat near Garrison http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/west-news/family-rmef-protect-elk-habitat-near-garrison January 8, 2013 | missoulian.com | MT No publisher Kimberly Seese West Montana 2013-01-08T05:00:00Z Link Editorial: We Have valuable, Critical Real Estate http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/west-news/editorial-we-have-valuable-critical-real-estate January 3, 2013 | The Daily Astorian | OR No publisher Kimberly Seese West Oregon 2013-01-03T05:00:00Z Link Conservancy Saves Prime Warrenton Land http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/west-news/conservancy-saves-prime-warrenton-land January 1, 2012 | The Daily Astorian | OR No publisher Kimberly Seese West Oregon 2013-01-01T05:00:00Z Link Don’t Throw Charities Off the Fiscal Cliff http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/national-homepage-news/don2019t-throw-charities-off-the-fiscal-cliff December 21, 2012 | Land Trust Alliance | Washington, D.C. There have been heated discussions in the news about cutting the tax deductions you take for giving to charities.  Assertions I’m hearing about who benefits from the charitable tax deduction are short-sighted.  

No one is better off financially after making a charitable gift. While a donor may get some reduction in taxes, their gift to benefit others is vastly larger than the tax deduction. Plus, charities have a multiplier effect on donations: every dollar that the tax deduction costs the government generates more than $4 in charitable programs.

Through the charitable deduction, Americans are provided an incentive to support a wide range of charities working to solve problems in communities across the country, contributing immeasurably to the health and welfare of our country.  At a time when government resources are shrinking, it makes no sense to discourage people from giving to charities when they need it the most.  

Tax benefits for charitable contributions started in 1919 and has persisted through any number of major tax reforms.  Hundreds of thousands of charitable enterprises of all sorts – from the Red Cross to Feeding America to Opera America – have built their business models around it, and they have asked for our help in defending it.  I think defending tax benefits for charitable contributions is a good idea.

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) was right when he said “Charities today face the prospect of enduring another recession that will again put downward pressure on charitable giving. This is not the time to reduce the charitable deduction and further suppress the incentive to give.”  

The Land Trust Alliance represents 1,700 land conservation groups that work with willing land owners to protect our natural heritage and provide benefits of clean water and air, fresh, local food and healthy places to live and work.  

We can certainly argue about the merits of various attempts to wrangle more out of the tax code for conservation (there have been lots of those).  But on the current issue of capping deductions on charitable giving now in front of policymakers, I see only negative effects and little or no interest amongst policymakers in finding an appropriate way to mitigate those or create a useful alternative.

All Americans should support greater fiscal responsibility for the federal government, and we are already seeing real consequences of irresponsibility in the form of cuts in spending – including spending for conservation in a host of government programs (including LWCF, NAWCA, FRPP, WRP and NFWF). This despite the fact that real spending on conservation programs is not a driver of our fiscal problems, having only increased 2% over the last 30 years in real dollars.  We can’t put ourselves above the need for a solution – but we need to speak up so that policymakers understand what is at stake.  

Any limits to the charitable deduction would hurt America’s charities by directing resources away from them and the millions of people they serve. As Congress and the White House look for a way to back off the fiscal cliff, they need to find a way to keep charities in the U.S. from going over one themselves.

Rand Wentworth
President, Land Trust Alliance
202-841-0886 | rwentworth@lta.org

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Northeast West Southeast Public Policy Midwest Land Trust Alliance 2012-12-21T05:00:00Z News Item Increasing Membership and Engaging Your Community http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/increasing-membership-and-engaging-your-community Webinar Date: February 14, 2013
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm ET
Instructor: Judy Anderson
Cost: $55 before 2/13, then cost will increase to $65
Level : Beginner / Intermediate

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Land trusts are the only nonprofits that pledge to be here in perpetuity-a pledge that necessitates support over generations. But conservation has to be relevant and important on a personal level for people to support your land trust into the future. There is growing recognition that changing demographics, including an aging population of current conservation supporters, will mean that land trusts need to develop programming and projects (and ways to describe them) that resonate with new, younger, socio-economically diverse and changing communities.

In this webinar, you will learn how land trusts of various sizes and capacity are using community-based techniques to connect their mission and work with the interests and needs of new and existing supporters. We will discuss how this approach, when combined with upgraded outreach/communication techniques, has increased their membership support up to 70% over three years, broadened their conservation impact, and engaged new partners and people. The webinar will touch upon the communication upgrades that helped make this turn-around possible and encouraged longer-term support.

]]> No publisher Kimberly Seese Southeast Northeast Midwest West 2012-12-20T22:15:12Z Event Sierra Foothill Conservancy Adds New Wildlife Preserve near Clovis http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/west-news/sierra-foothill-conservancy-adds-new-wildlife-preserve-near-clovis December 19, 2012 | Valley Public Radio | Fresno, CA No publisher Kimberly Seese West California 2012-12-19T05:00:00Z Link Advanced Appraisal Issues http://www.landtrustalliance.org/events-news/calendar/advanced-appraisal-issues Webinar

Date: February 13, 2013
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm ET
Instructors: Bill Silberstein, Mark Weston
Cost: $55 before 2/12, then cost will increase to $65
Level: Intermediate / Advanced

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Qualified appraisals are the lynchpin of the process that allows landowners to benefit from federal income, estate and state tax incentives flowing from the donation of a conservation easement. A poorly supported appraisal, whether fraudulent or merely sloppy, damages the integrity of a conservation easement transaction regardless of the conservation values involved. It also damages the reputation of the land trust involved in the transaction, risks violating the public trust, and may reduce support for conservation in general.

This webinar will provide an overview of the requirements for appraisal of real estate and conservation easements used to seek charitable deductions outlined in §1.170A(13)(c) and §1.170A(14) of the Treasury Regulations. Participants will learn:

  • Recent appraisal-related case law
  • Strategies for selecting an appraiser
  • Common mistakes made in valuing easements
  • Tips for communicating with donors.
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