Because the land needs a good advocate.

Advocacy Matters, LLC founder, Gwendolyn Lacy, principal attorney, consultant and mediator, works with private landowners, regional, local and national land conservancies, as well as governmental agencies and environmental organizations to actively preserve those special places where life-long memories and legacies are forged. Client Services, include drafting and/or review of conservation easements, land acquisitions, historic preservation, mediation of easement violations, legislative advocacy, succession planning and non-profit capacity building.

Serving the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest Regions of the U.S.

At AgVisory, we have deep roots in agriculture with extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of agricultural industries. When you are looking for an appraisal for your farm, ranch, or agribusiness, you want to work with qualified experts that understand the complexity of agriculture. AgVisory can provide you a unique perspective having a broad range of experience in both the agricultural industry and the finance and banking industry.

BackOffice Thinking is the creator of LOCATE, the premier land trust database built on Salesforce. Besides LOCATE, we also design, built, and support websites as well as implement and support nonprofit CRMs ( Salesforce, NeonCRM, and CiviCRM ) and provide technology assessments to help guide nonprofits to right decisions.

Although we work with a variety of nonprofits, we have particular expertise with conservation-focused organizations and cultural destination nonprofits such as land trusts, botanical gardens, and smaller museums. Last year we worked with over 50 conservation-based organizations.

Bold Bison provides creative communications solutions, engaging facilitation services and inspiring workshops and trainings for the conservation movement, the education sector and the arts.

Conservation communications needs to be bolder. We bring a down-to-earth, common sense approach to communications strategies and tools from digital and print to content creation and media relations. We also provide hands-on workshops and skill-building training sessions, and we facilitate retreats, coalitions and networks.

Braun & Gresham provides legal services to owners of rural land — advocating for their interests in estate planning, land conservation, real estate investment and property taxes; and defending them from condemnation, groundwater depletion, surface water pollution or infrastructure routing. Braun & Gresham believes that its conservation counsel is more effective if it stays focused on representing landowners rather than trying to represent land trusts and landowners.

Judy Anderson of Community Consultants has worked in the land trust sector for over 30 years. She currently assists nonprofit organizations on practical strategic conservation initiatives incorporating local communities, climate change, governance, communications and marking, and community-based fundraising strategies.

Judy offers a free bi-monthly newsletter related to climate change, conservation and land trusts taking action to slow down climate. Judy also provides coaching on inclusive conservation, easement drafting and stewardship, and building greater community relevance to ensure land trusts withstand the test of time.

Judy coaches remotely as well as proving in-person trainings, workshops, and discussions.

The Conservation Consulting Group (CCG) is a collective of highly experienced professionals who are passionate about land conservation and dedicated to building the capacity and advancing the mission of nonprofit environmental and conservation organizations throughout the United States. Specialties include strategic planning, organizational assessment and improvement, Board development, meeting facilitation, coaching and mentoring, training and education. We assist organizations with planning and developing initiatives that engage, invigorate, and mobilize stakeholders and constituencies. We offer assessments and specific recommendations based on best practices to empower staffs and Boards. We deliver so our clients can deliver — results second to none.

Conservation Impact and Nonprofit Impact are client-centered practices of our mission-driven company dedicated to helping organizations become more impactful, successful, and sustainable.

Conservation Tax Credit Transfer facilitates the sale and purchase of Colorado conservation easement tax credits between sellers and buyers. CTCT also assists landowners through the tax credit application process and assists with tax compliance matters for sellers and buyers.

Danosky & Associates is an action-oriented, results-driven consulting firm that helps non-profit organizations build the capacity to move their strategic vision forward with a solid foundation and an army of support behind them. Our approach draws on five key principles that can work as an integrated solution or be used independently to address specific concerns: Board Energy, Philanthropic Enrichment, Organizational Effectiveness & Learning, Community Engagement and Financial Empowerment.

David Allen at Development for Conservation assists conservation organizations raising money from individual donors by improving renewal, cultivation, and major gift development systems. David brings 25 years of experience to the practice, including 13 with The Nature Conservancy. With a focus on implementation and follow-through, he has worked with dozens of land trusts across the country on fundraising audits and plans, board training, campaigns, and coaching. “You can raise more money for your land trust. I can help."

Draper Law PLLC is a solo law firm focused on all aspects of land conservation — from serving as transactional counsel for the purchase, sale and donation of properties and conservation easements, to providing strategic guidance on the stewardship, management and enforcement of conservation easements. Adam Draper has over 15 years of attorney experience, with the past 10 years as in-house counsel at two land conservation organizations before striking out on his own in December 2018. In partnership with private landowners, land trusts, tribal governments, corporations and federal, state and local government officials, Adam has closed more than 70 transactions conserving 7,000+ acres of working, habitat and recreation/open space lands worth over $30 million. Adam is a sought-after public speaker and industry expert on land conservation, and has presented several sessions at the Land Trust Alliance’s annual Rally.

Ecopixel creates and sustains websites for conservation, collaboration and community.

Join other land trusts who use our platform, and let us help you with outreach, events and online fundraising. We'll collaborate with you on a compelling design that meets today's mobile-friendly responsive design and accessibility standards. Easily update all of your content using the open-source, nonprofit-run TYPO3 CMS (content management system).  We provide a complete solution that includes reliable carbon-offset hosting as well as personal support and ongoing training.

Ecopixel works with a variety of nonprofits, small municipalities, and socially responsible businesses and we have deep experience serving land trusts. We know that web projects can seem complex. We're here to help!

Contact us for your website needs.

Effect Size Consulting provides nonprofits with strategic leadership, coaching and support in three main fundraising and organizational growth focus areas: Major Gifts & Campaign Fundraising Strategy, Data-Driven Fundraising, and High-Performance Team Development. Principal, Anthony Rupard has over fifteen years of experience leading progressive fund development teams, most recently as the Development Director for the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy’s $71.4M comprehensive Campaign for Generations which exceeded $80M in campaign support.

Our team can analyze your existing base of support and help you determine the potential for increased annual giving and major gift support and identify and develop planned-giving program opportunities. We can create a plan that positions the organization to increase annual support, assess campaign feasibility and comprehensively manage your campaign. We also conduct capacity audits, invest in team culture through training and create performance metrics to attract and retain talented fundraisers.

The Effect Size Consulting team is experienced with raising money for complex conservation land transactions including conservation lending and has a reputation for teaching staff, board and other key volunteers how to build authentic and trusting relationships that lead to transformational gifts.

With offices in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Oregon and America's largest portfolio of compliance forest offset projects from Maine to Alaska, we offer landowners a single-source solution for creating and monetizing their forest carbon assets. Combining unparalleled project development experience with extensive carbon market knowledge, our in-house team offers the most comprehensive forest carbon project development and commercialization service in the United States.

Grant & Lyons was founded in 1994. Since founding, our practice is dedicated solely to environmental, land use and real estate law. One of our founding partners, Drayton Grant (now deceased), was a founding member of the Winnakee Land Trust in Rhinebeck, NY. Current partner, John Lyons, presently sits on the Board of Directors of both the Winnakee Land Trust and the Catskill Center (whose land trust was recently accredited by LTA) and sits on the Board’s stewardship committee. John is an individual member of the LTA. Our legal practice regularly involves all facets of conservation easements. We represent both land trusts and landowners. We have drafted, negotiated and reviewed many easements, and provided legal advice to parties on both sides of the conservation easement equation. In addition to helping Winnakee and the Catskill Center, we also have worked with Scenic Hudson, Dutchess Land Conservancy, and Hudson River Heritage (for whom we successfully defended a lawsuit seeking to extinguish a conservation easement). We participate actively in continuing legal education to remain at the forefront of new developments in this field. We also work regularly with planners on open space preservation initiatives for our municipal clients.

Representing organizations and landowners in all phases of conservation real estate transactions, including land and conservation easement sales and donations, conservation easement amendments, and exchanges. Conservation Advisors LLC secures public and private conservation capital, and analyzes and implements conservation and business strategies.

We help land trusts achieve sustainability through efficient financial budgeting, tracking, reporting and providing industry-specific guidance in decision-making. We streamline accounting processes through modern technology and effective internal controls.

Our services:

• Bookkeeping
• Payroll
• Internal financial reporting
• Grants tracking and grants financial reporting
• Budget set up assistance (by program, project, agency total)
• Audit/Review and 990 tax prep organizers
• Accounting system efficiency realignment
• Accounting system upgrades and finance tech tools integrations
• Coaching in non-profit finance, internal controls and systems designs

Land and Water Connections Consulting helps make communities, and the ecosystems they rely on, healthier and more resilient through strategic planning, equity-driven engagement, and action-oriented research. We focus on conservation, climate change, and equitable access to nature. Much of our work with land trusts involves strategic conservation planning and training and guidance related to community engagement.

Representing land trusts and public agencies in conservation transactions and organizational management.

Law Offices of Robin Jepsen (formerly Law Offices of Zad Leavy & Robin Jepsen) is a small California law firm focusing on real estate transactions with conservation outcomes since 1994, including advising land trusts in connection with the purchase and sale of fee title and conservation easements to protect scenic open space, habitat and agricultural use.

CONSULTANT | COACH* focusing on executives and emerging leaders | ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVER | BOARD FIXER | STRATEGIST | PLANNER.

MAYES | WILSON & ASSOCIATES knows your world and your pain-points. Our team's core focus is organizational development and sustainability, building better boards and solving board problems, solving organizational and team challenges, planning for the future (strategic, succession & transition) and fundraising. We conduct organizational assessments, deliver accreditation guidance and application management and prepare fundraising plans. We problem solve, we build, we train. We're bada** consultants who are passionate about solving your problem and love our work. We bring experience in leading nonprofits, programs and businesses to our solution oriented approach to your most challenging problems. We work throughout the US & in the Caribbean in person and by conference/video calls.

*CTI coach certification program 2018.

Sarah is skilled at managing organizational change, developing and mentoring people and managing complex projects. She has worked in the not-for-profit, research, technology and education fields and has over twenty years of experience, most recently in the land trust community. Sarah served in several leadership roles at the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, including Director of Human Resources for five years and the Director of Stewardship for three years prior. She was instrumental in supporting the growth of the organization with attention to culture, development of staff and volunteers and monitoring benchmarks and outcomes. Sarah has extensive experience in the creation, implementation, and review of policies and procedures, and successfully led the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy through the accreditation process in 2009 and again in 2014. Today, Sarah supports land trusts as they plan and prepare for accreditation. She provides guidance and training to develop people and systems to meet the goals of the organization.

My name is Brian J. Gatzke, ARA, Certified General Appraiser, owner of Northern Plains Appraisal L.L.C, located in Brookings, South Dakota. Together with my team we specialize in professional services for opinion of value for real property.

Research-based strategy and management consulting for the 21st century social sector.

Widely recognized as one of the region’s foremost authorities in conservation law, Pregmon Law has been instrumental in preserving thousands of acres of land in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. Whether it is private donation of conservation easements or publicly funded acquisitions of open space, partners Pat Pregmon and Lauren Pregmon Tetreault provide counsel to both land trusts and private landowners. We also coordinate public-private partnerships and develop innovative donation agreements and funding covenants to meet the needs of land trusts responsible for the perpetual stewardship of conservation transactions. Pregmon Law excels at analyzing individual needs, mediating competing interests, and creating a structure which unites them- while always keeping in mind the goal of crafting a solution which will last in perpetuity. Being a small firm, Pregmon Law can apply a more thoughtful approach and get to a more intimate level of detail to meet our clients’ conservation objectives.