Strategies to Help Your Land Trust Survive and Thrive During COVID and After

Many land trusts face major challenges in the immediate future. Land trusts that will weather COVID successfully will have addressed big questions that may make your board and staff uncomfortable: Should we consider merger? Do we need to downsize? How can we address a significant financial challenge? Are we on the right path? Many organizations have trouble raising and tackling these questions in a systematic way. Yet avoiding or delaying the big questions may make underlying problems worse. Join nonprofit management expert Scott Schaffer as he explores techniques that land trust leadership can use to address strategic issues crucial to surviving and thriving in this public health/economic crisis and beyond.

Here’s a look at what we will cover:

• Making a realistic assessment of your short- and long-term prospects
• Approaches to raising challenging questions and building group alignment
• Merger and strategic partnership alternatives
• Downsizing and internal restructuring options
• Building financial resiliency