Funding Easement Stewardship

Dates:  Fridays, March 6, 20, 27 and April 3
Time:  1:00pm - 2:00pm EST

NOTE:  Participants must  have high-speed internet access.   

Webinar Description 

This webinar will focus on how land trusts design and use dedicated stewardship funds to meet their long-term easement stewardship responsibilities.  Participants will learn:

• The importance of establishing a stewardship fund for easement permanence
• Methods to estimate the long-term easement stewardship costs for each easement transaction
• Methods that land trusts use to raise and manage funds for easement stewardship
• How to prepare a comprehensive board easement stewardship fund policy that includes calculating costs, securing funds, expending funds, and oversight
• Ways to evaluate their own land trusts’ financial preparedness for easement stewardship

Participants will:

• Develop stewardship funding materials tailored to their own land trusts’ needs
• Use data from their own land trusts to estimate per-easement stewardship costs
• Consider sources for funding easement stewardship
• Design an easement stewardship funding policy
  

This course is based on the Land Trust Alliance course “Determining Stewardship Costs and Raising and Managing Dedicated Funds.” 

Syllabus Coming Soon!

Audience

Land trust staff, volunteers, and board members who are planning for the long-term financial support of their land trusts’ easement stewardship program.

Instructor

Brenda Lind

Brenda Lind is a part-time land protection specialist with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and part-time private consultant on land protection topics. She is currently an online facilitator on the Land Trust Alliance Learning Center, and has co-authored several publications for the Alliance, including Determining Stewardship Costs and Raising and Managing Dedicated Funds and Conservation Easement Stewardship.  She lives in New Boston, New Hampshire, where she especially enjoys walking and working on conservation lands along the Piscataquog River.

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