Field Services
The Alliance's field staff are placed strategically across the country to provide local support and training that helps develop networks, empower change and grow conservation impact in every corner of the country.
Join the conversation.
Connect with conservation professionals across the country online! Join our online conversations on topics ranging from stewardship, communications, community-centered conservation and more. Staff, board and volunteers of land trust and affiliate member organizations, and Alliance donors at the Protector level can access this special benefit.
Upcoming events
The Land Trust Alliance holds in-person and virtual events throughout the year so you can learn from experts on hot topics in conservation and connect with your peers.
Peer learning groups
The Land Trust Alliance convenes various groups based on job function, region and more to bring together like-minded professionals to share successes and discusses challenges in their work.
Communicators' Network
If you wear a communications hat at your land trust, join the Communicators' Network. We connect online on an ongoing basis to tackle challenges together, share best practices and, most important, explore opportunities to use our collective power to build a constituency for conservation across the country. Choose the "Communications" box on your preferences tab to sign up.
Read our blog
Check out the Land Trust Alliance blog to learn how land trusts across the country are making an impact in their communities and gaining ground for us all.
Affiliate Member Directory
Land Trust Alliance affiliate members are conservation groups, government agencies, professionals and others who care deeply about land conservation and supporting the work of land trusts. You can use the directory to search for professionals, government agencies and nonprofits to support your work.
Advocacy Matters, LLC
Advocacy Matters, LLC founder, Gwendolyn Lacy, principal attorney, consultant and mediator, works with private landowners, regional, local and national land conservancies, as well as governmental agencies and environmental organizations to actively preserve those special places where life-long memories and legacies are forged.
BackOffice Thinking, LLC
BackOffice Thinking is the creator of LOCATE, the premier land trust database built on Salesforce. Besides LOCATE, we also design, built, and support websites as well as implement and support nonprofit CRMs (Salesforce, NeonCRM, and CiviCRM) and provide technology assessments to help guide nonprofits to right decisions.
Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts
The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts is the only association of land trusts in Oregon, where it serves as a statewide service center and the central voice of the land trust community. COLT focuses on improving and advancing land conservation in the state through increased land trust capacity and coverage, engagement of stakeholders, defending and developing new and larger sources of funding, and supportive policies.
Development for Conservation, LLC
David Allen at Development for Conservation assists conservation organizations raising money from individual donors by improving renewal, cultivation, and major gift development systems. With a focus on implementation and follow-through, he has worked with dozens of land trusts across the country on fundraising audits and plans, board training, campaigns, and coaching.
Fidelity Foundation
The Fidelity Foundations are a group of private, non-operating foundations that fund a diverse set of programs on a national scale, with particular focus on Boston and New England. In addition, the Foundations fund nonprofit organizations that strengthen the primary communities in which Fidelity Investments employees live and work. The Foundations’ values of responsibility, integrity, compassion, and expertise guide its investments in education, arts and culture, health, conservation and community services.
Highstead Foundation
Highstead works to inspire curiosity and build knowledge about plants and wooded landscapes in order to enhance life, preserve nature, and advance sound stewardship practices.
Landscape Land Conservation Software
Landscape is online software that tracks and reports on every aspect of your land conservation program from acquisition to stewardship. Landscape is a powerful database that integrates project management, mapping, and document archival and moves seamlessly between the office and the field with the Landscape Mobile field data collection app.
Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
The Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority conserves the natural environment, supports agriculture, and connects people to nature, by protecting open spaces, natural areas, and working farms and ranches for future generations.
Virginia Outdoors Foundation
The Virginia Outdoors Foundation is Virginia’s leader in land conservation, protecting more than 825,000 acres in 109 counties and independent cities. VOF is a public organization, created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1966 under Virginia Code § 10.1-1800. Today, we receive both public and private support for our work.
Hire an affiliate member for your next project.
Are you a land trust looking for support on your next project? Submit it to the to the RFP Depot, an online repository where the land trust community can post requests for proposals and be confident that the most knowledgeable land conservation professionals are reviewing them.