Implement Land Trust Standards and Practices

Do you want to take your land trust to the next level of excellence? Ensure your projects and your land trust are prepared for the future? Implementing Land Trust Standards and Practices is  the best way to ensure that your conservation projects — and the larger land conservation movement — will stand the test of time.

Tools You Can Use

Here are some resources to help you put the Standards into effect:

Assess Your Organization

The Land Trust Alliance has updated the Assessing Your Organization tool to reflect the 2017 Standards. Read an introduction or take an online course on how to use the assessment. Download the Assessing Your Organization workbook (free for members).

Workshops and Webinars

Got goals for implementing the Standards? There’s probably a workshop or a webinar you could take to help you get there: check out upcoming webinars or look for workshops and other learning opportunities at a land trust conference.  

The Learning Center

The Learning Center is a helpful resource when implementing the Standards. You can find extensive background information for all 12 standards, 59 practices and 188 practice elements. And, you can follow links to related case studies, sample documents, templates and more. Content from the past Standards and Practices Curriculum has been updated and divided up by Standard.

Additionally, there are 59 self-study modules on key practices that take no more than 15 minutes to complete.

Go to Ask an Expert with your tough questions; get input from your colleagues in online forums; start preparing for accreditation; and so much more!