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Twenty years ago, when I was wondering how the Vermont Land Trust would meet its next payroll, I started focusing on land gifts.

Nonprofit organizations of all sizes and shapes, including land conservation organizations, are paying increasing attention these days to the potential of charitable real estate gifts as the effects of the weakened economy ripple through development offices.

With the dire economic forecast, land trusts are tightening their belts, concerned about what it will mean for yearend donations and beyond. There is no doubt that these economic problems will impact land trusts and all nonprofits.

How are environmental grassroots organizatrions raising (or not raising) money online?

The Otsego Land Trust is turning 24 next year and has accomplished great things during that time — yet the last two years have been ones of transformation.

One indication of the steady maturing of the land conservation community is the increasing number of land trusts turning their attention to planned giving or legacy gifts.