Resources For Land Trusts
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Reviewed on: 9/27/2025
This document outlines legal tools like conservation restrictions and trusts that protect land trust properties from being converted.
View here: Overlay Protections for Land Tr...
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An overall perspective on the basic processes involved in nonprofit financial management, published by the Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits.
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Conservationists have to win again and again. Mark Robinson presents a plan to to ensure that the land we love and that we have all fought so hard to protect, will remain open and wild.
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Last reviewed by MLTC 11/25/2024.
The term “planned giving” refers to charitable gifts that require some planning before they are made. This document describes various reasons to get involved in plann...
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Presentation and accompanying article from the 2024 Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference.
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Reviewed on: 9/22/2025
Sample policy describing the conditions of acceptance, land trust services, procedure, grantee and grantor obligations for a conservation restriction.
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Last reviewed by MLTC 11/25/2024.
Explores opportunities available under Section 2031(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, in particular the post-mortem donation of a conservation easement. Demonstrates t...
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The guide presents the principles of ethical conduct, accountability, and transparency that the panel encourage all organizations to follow.
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Background information intended to assist attorneys in locating cases that cover some of the major legal issues surrounding property tax exemptions for nonprofit organizations.
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This workshop discusses how recent tax case rulings may affect property tax exemptions on land owned by land trusts for conservation purposes; how land trust Articles of Incorporation support their pr...
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How to ensure land acquired by municipalities for conservation is not disposed of or put to another use.
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The scientific, economic, and public health justifications for land conservation as a critical strategy for protecting America's drinking water sources and recharge lands
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Guidelines for 501(c)(3) organizations who wish to lobby.
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A presentation on the Department of Justice (DOJ) rules regarding access to recreation facilities by people with mobility disabilities, effective March, 2011. This presentation was given at the Mass...
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One response to the alarming, emerging issue of local assessors taxing non-profit land trusts on all or some of their properties.
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The purposes clause of a land trust's Articles of Incorporation needs to accent any and all approaches that the organization does or plans to take to accomplish its goals of protection. A well-writt...
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Racial Equity Stages resource linked here.
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The guide endorses nine strategic recommendations for adoption by the Commonwealth's public and private sectors. The recommendations are based on regional and national best practices. View guide here
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Resources to help you improve your land trust's record keeping practices.
Toolkit summary sheet and descriptionVideo of Standards and Practices: How to Run a Land Trust ResponsiblyLink to LTA's summar...
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An Act relative to the recovery of attorney's fees for conservation restriction enforcement, Chapter 184, Section 32.
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