Materials from Past Workshops:
Land Trust Standards & Practices: Best Practices for Land Conservation and Stewardship
Held: Thursday, October 12, 2017
Keepers & Chuckers: Organizing Land Records to Assure Permanent Protection for Your Land
Held: Saturday, November 7, 2015
- PowerPoint (pdf)
- Handouts (pdf)
Preparing Baseline Documentation for Your Protected Lands
Held: Saturday, December 7, 2013
Video of Workshop & Workshop Materials
RI Conservation Easement Amendments: Protecting Land Forever & Recent Legislative Changes
Held: Thursday, November 14, 2013
- Agenda
- Speaker Bios
- Code of RI Chapters 34-39-3 & 34-39-5
- Amendment Principles
- LTA Standards & Practices Excerpt on Amendments
- Chart – Excerpt from Amendment Report
- Amendment Triage and Range of Amendments
- Amendment Evaluation Checklist
- Excerpt from Form 990 Schedule D Instructions
- What is Public Benefit under IRS Code
- Private Benefit Cheat Sheet
- Aquidneck LT Easement Amendment Clause
- Aquidneck LT Easement Amendment Policy
- Pidot Article Excerpts
- Amending Conservation Easements Final Report
- Resource List on Conservation Easement Amendments
Fundraising for Stewardship & Conservation Defense:
PowerPoint and Videos
Does your land trust need to raise funds for stewardship and legal defense of land that you’re protecting? These workshop videos are that professional consult you need! The workshop is funny, direct, and compelling. Fundraising consultant Sharon Danosky moves at a clip and makes sense out of every step and reasoning of a successful campaign. You will not get lost. The PowerPoint (Adobe Acrobat format) is your map; Danosky is your expert guide.
PowerPoint for workshop (in Adobe Acrobat format)

Part 1: Leads you from fundraising fundamentals to developing a case for support, creating a fundraising pyramid, and conducting feasibility studies.

Part 2: Continuation of Part 1.

Part 3: Presentations of case statements that groups developed during the workshop