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Handouts & Materials

Thursday, November 2nd

2-3:30PM Track
Strategic Planning & Visioning I: The View from the Mountain

  • TBA

Invigorating and Expanding Membership

  • Defining Our Membership Model

3:45-5:00PM Track
Strategic Planning & Visioning II: The Nitty Gritty

  • TBA

Crafting Social Media Messaging that Gets Noticed

  • Presentation
  • Handout
  • Sample TechNow and blank social media calendars

Friday, November 3rd

9-10:30AM Track
Meetings That Work

  • Effective Meetings Handout

Fundraising Basics

  • TBA

10:45AM-Noon Track
Acquiring Land for Conservation

  • Powerpoint Presentation
  • Conservation Transaction Addendum
  • Model Transaction Checklist
  • Grant of Purchase Option
  • Model Grant of First Offer
  • Model Grant of First Refusal

Land Trust Standards and Practices

  • Land Trust Standards and Practices, 2017 Edition with changes highlighted

Embracing Change

  • Bridges Transition Model
  • Managing Change Worksheet
  • 8 Stages of Change
  • Apartment Model of Change

Expanding your Fundraising Vocabulary

  • Finding Your Inner Fundraiser
  • Cycle of Fundraising, Complete.  Robinson
  • Worksheet for Diversified Funding Base

1:30-3:00PM Track
Conservation Easements

  • Powerpoint Presentation
  • Model Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants
  • Conservation Donation Easement Agreement (CEDA)
  • Model Stewardship Funding Covenant
  • Funding Conservation Easement Stewardship Brochure

What’s in a Board?

  • Board Roles and Responsibilities
  • Whose Job is It?
  • Sample Board of Director Roles and Responsibilities
  • Board Committees
  • Sample Board Member Position Descriptions

Volunteers: A Renewable Resource

  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Volunteer Needs Assessment
  • Recruiting Article
  • Orienting Volunteers
  • Pulling from the Ranks

3:15-4:45PM Track
Conservation Easements II

  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Model Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants
  • Conservation Donation Easement Agreement (CEDA)
  • Model Stewardship Funding Covenant
  • Funding Conservation Easement Stewardship Brochure

Building Brilliant Boards

  • Board Member Matrix
  • Blue Ribbon Nominating Committee
  • Board Manual Table of Contents

Negotiation Strategies

  • Role for Jones
  • Role for Roland
  • Negotiation Worksheet
  • Worksheet

People & Projects

  • Part of Brandywine Battlefield Preserved in Westtown Township

    Part of Brandywine Battlefield Preserved in Westtown Township

    Natural Lands announced on October 26, 2020 the permanent protection of nearly 10 acres of land along the fast-developing Route …Read More »
  • Unlikely Partners BalletX and Natural Lands Make Nature Center Stage

    Unlikely Partners BalletX and Natural Lands Make Nature Center Stage

    What does it look like when the regions oldest and largest land conservation organization and Philadelphia’s Premier Contemporary Ballet Company …Read More »
  • Heritage Conservancy Sets Pioneering Example of Partnership and Preservation with Manoff Market Gardens

    Heritage Conservancy Sets Pioneering Example of Partnership and Preservation with Manoff Market Gardens

    Freda R. Savana for Heritage Conservancy It could be said that Gary and Amy Manoff have farming in their blood. …Read More »
  • Berks Nature Closes on a Conservation Easement of Olivet Blue Mountain Camp

    Berks Nature Closes on a Conservation Easement of Olivet Blue Mountain Camp

    On September 30th, 2020, Berks Nature closed on a conservation easement project in the Schuylkill River Watershed, Kittatinny Ridge and …Read More »
  • Fifteen More Acres Protected Forever!

    Fifteen More Acres Protected Forever!

      Article originally published in September 2020 by Willistown Conservation Trust. The final conservation chapter to the 15-acre Stonehedge Farm …Read More »
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