Resources For Land Trusts
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Article linked here.
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In the fall of 2019, the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition (MLTC) sent surveys to land trusts and other private nonprofit organizations engaged in the protection or management of conservation land in...
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Challenges: BIPOC-led coalitions, movements, organizations, and other under-resourced groups often struggle to build human and financial capital due to systemic racism. Under-resourced nonprofit group...
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This booklet is designed as a practical guide to help nonprofit board members, executives and funders think through a merger. Over the next pages, you’ll take a quick trip through a merger’s terrain a...
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This is not intended to be a comprehensive glossary of all the language used in conversations regarding social justice, diversity, and allyship. In every context, the meaning of these words may change...
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A resource for information on wheelchair and power driven mobility devices access to trails.
View resources here.
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This presentation on accounting and financial reporting for land trusts was made at the 2018 Mass Land Conservation Conference.
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This watershed-scale climate collaboration toolkit provides context for, and highlights, the benefits of these types of collaborations. Thanks to our Climate Communications and Slow the Flow Work Grou...
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An agricultural conservation easement (restriction) is used by a landowner to protect productive agricultural land. The fact sheet describes the benefits and drawbacks of these agreements. View at: ww...
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This guide describes many facets of farmland conservation under the APR program, from application to stewardship.
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This presentation covers not only an overview of the APR program, but also insights into the application and selection processes.
Made by David Viale, of the Division of Agricultural Conservation ...
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This publication seeks to be a helpful resource to land trusts considering merging, with an overview of the process and key junctures, tips from organizations that have been there and tools to make th...
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This case was brought before the MA Supreme Judicial Court to clarify and codify the steps required to designate Article 97 land.
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An Act Preserving Open Space in the Commonwealth, also known as the Public Lands Preservation Act (PLPA), was enacted in 2023, establishing in statute requirements and a process for submission to the ...
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All about selling land, or an interest in land such as a conservation restriction, for less than fair market value to a nonprofit land trust or government agency when the land is to be used for a publ...
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Sample table of contents for a land trust Baseline Documentation Report.
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A quick overview of the benefits of conserved land to the citizens of Massachusetts, originally created by a coalition of environmental groups in support of the Environmental Bond.
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“The Return on Investment in Parks and Open Space in Massachusetts” was authored by the Trust for Public Land and funded by over 25 conservation organizations.
Highlights from the report:
For every $...
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"My name is Zenovia. I'm a wife, mother, and Founder of Black Kids Adventures, Inc, a non-profit organization. I'm married to my college sweetheart, and we're raising our three sons to be bold and cou...
