Find an Expert is a one-stop shop to find just the right consultant or conservation partner.
Search for professionals, government agencies and nonprofits who have shown their commitment to excellence in conservation by becoming a Land Trust Alliance Affiliate. National in scope and fully searchable by state, focus of work, expertise and affiliate type, just choose a category or use the search bar function to find the expert that meets your needs.
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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.
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Experienced real estate finance professional (and attorney) works with land trusts to assess and improve easement data and monitoring, online document storage, financial planning and forecasting and organizational development.
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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."
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Honua Consulting, LLC is a 100% Native Hawaiian woman owned boutique firm that specializes in environmental planning, cultural resource management, community advocacy, and nonprofit capacity building. Our owner, Trisha Kehaulani Watson, has both a law degree, with a specialization in environmental law and a Ph.D. with an emphasis on historic preservation and indigenous resource management. We have been a leader in these fields for nearly 20 years.
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The Lyme Timber Company LP is a private timberland investment manager that focuses on the acquisition and sustainable management of lands with unique conservation values. Since its founding in 1976, the Company has followed a disciplined and value-oriented approach to investing in forestland and rural real estate in the U.S. and Canada.
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Our attorneys specialize in environmental and land law and work to support a sustainable New Hampshire. We represent land trusts, landowners and others. We design legal solutions consistent with both private property rights and sustainable stewardship of our land and natural resources.
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Conservation Impact and Nonprofit Impact are client-centered practices of our mission-driven company dedicated to helping organizations become more impactful, successful, and sustainable.
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Founded in March 2004 by a group of partners who had practiced together for many years at another major law firm, Coughlin Duffy LLP is a diverse, full-service firm committed to providing legal services of exceptional quality and superior value.
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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.
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The Fauquier County Agricultural Development Department offers support and programs for the promotion, marketing, and preservation of Fauquier County agriculture.
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The Fidelity Foundations are a group of private, non-operating foundations that fund a diverse set of programs on a national scale, with particular focus on Boston and New England. In addition, the Foundations fund nonprofit organizations that strengthen the primary communities in which Fidelity Investments employees live and work. The Foundations’ values of responsibility, integrity, compassion, and expertise guide its investments in education, arts and culture, health, conservation, and community services.
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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.
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Mitchell & Co., P.C. is a local CPA firm located in Leesburg, Virginia. We provide a wide range of accounting services including audits, reviews, and compilations for a variety of organizations across many industries. In addition, we prepare personal and corporate tax returns for an ever-expanding client base.
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The NH Land and Community Heritage Investment Program provides $5m annually to nonprofit organizations and communities seeking to conserve land and preserve historic resources across New Hampshire.
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Accounting, financial reporting including audited financial reports, financial consulting.
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The State of Hawai'i Legacy Land Conservation Program provides grants to community organizations and government agencies that strive to purchase and protect land that shelters exceptional, unique, threatened and endangered resources. The annual competitive grant cycle —funded by legislative appropriations of revenue from real estate conveyance taxes — includes a rigorous and thorough agency/public review process. Grant awards are subject to final approvals by the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Governor.
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A full-service law firm representing clients across the United States and internationally, Stites & Harbison, PLLC is known as a preeminent firm managing sophisticated transactions, challenging litigation, and complex regulatory matters on a daily basis. The firm represents a broad spectrum of clients including multinational corporations, financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, health care organizations, private companies, nonprofit organizations, family-owned businesses and individuals.
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After 19 years as a conservation professional, I decided to launch Strong Outcomes to use what I learned to help environmental agencies and organizations be more successful.
In my career, I have helped dozens of communities and organizations build capacity to conserve natural resources and authored a book on natural resource-based land use planning. I developed conservation plans, organized workshops and events, developed community engagement strategies, and implemented practical measures of success.
I have a BS in Biology and an MS in Biodiversity Conservation and Policy from the University at Albany, and a Certificate in Change Leadership from Cornell University. I am a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program and have 13 years of nonprofit board experience.
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The Virginia Department of Forestry: protects 15.8 million acres of forest land from fire, insects and disease; and manages 22 State Forest lands totaling 67,920 acres for timber, recreation, water, research, wildlife and biodiversity.
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The Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) is Virginia’s leader in land conservation, protecting more than 825,000 acres in 109 counties and independent cities. VOF is a public organization, created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1966 under Virginia Code § 10.1-1800. Today, we receive both public and private support for our work.
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Virginia’s United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. VaULT also offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land Conservation Conference.