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 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...
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Linked here.
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Black Girls Trekkin’ (BGT) is a Los Angeles based 501c3 nonprofit, created by Co-founders, Tiffany and Michelle, for Black women who choose to opt outside. BGT seeks to inspire and empower Black women...