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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 on how to use the assessment or download the Assessing Your Organization workbook (free for members).

Land Trust Standards and Practices Curriculum

We're currently updating and reimagining the curriculum to take advantage of new advances in online learning technology. Until the new materials are ready, the current curriculum (free for members) has a lot of content that remains relevant, including case studies, exercises, sample documents and templates to apply what you learn.

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 huge resource while you’re 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. 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!

Ways to Learn

Conference

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Hikers Tamia Dame and Jerquayle Heard enjoy scenic Blue Ridge Parkway vistas from atop Waterrock Knob. Photo by Michelle Lotker/Courtesy of Conservation Trust for North Carolina

Rally 2019: The National Land Conservation Conference | Raleigh, NC

October 17 - 19, 2019
Raleigh, North Carolina

Join more than 1,800 of your fellow conservationists as we gather in Raleigh for an extensive array of land conservation seminars and workshops not available anywhere else in the country.

Publication

Nonprofit Law and Recordkeeping for Land Trusts – Volume I: Complying with Federal, State and Local Law

Author: 
Jane Prohaska
Year Published: 
2008

This course book gives you what you need to know about the legal requirements for operating a land trust and cover the issue of tax exemption, including the major requirements for maintaining charitable tax-exempt status and an overview of IRS Form 990.

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