A Common Sense Guide to Risk Management for Land Trusts

This document walks you through developing a risk management plan for your land trust.

This document lays out common areas of risk land trusts face and the likelihood that they will occur.

This book provides an introduction to risk management in order to equip your land trust with information, resources and suggested strategies for designing and implementing a practical risk management program.

An eight-page introduction to principles, tools, frameworks and strategies for risk management

The Land Trust Alliance and Gathering Waters: Wisconsin’s Alliance for Land are collaborating to help you identify and assess risks using current risk management strategies that will help you ensure the permanence of your land trust and its conserved lands.

Land Trust Alliance members qualify as affiliates of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center. Your affiliate status gives you free access to their Risk Help desk, eNews, webinars and online resources. You can also get discounts on apps and consulting services.

This is a sample matrix assessing scope scale severity of risk examples by Leslie Ratley-Beach of the Land Trust Alliance.

Leslie Ratley-Beach, conservation defense director at the Land Trust Alliance and vice president of Alliance Risk Management Services, will review trends from over 2,200 claims submitted over the past 11 years of Terrafirma conservation defense liability insurance and respond to your comments.

​​Insurance is complicated. Reading the fine print to make sure you have the right coverage for your land trust’s risks can be difficult. Join Meghan Mullee, first vice president of Alliant Insurance Services, for a crash course on the basics of insurance coverage.

Smart land trusts typically purchase multiple types of insurance coverage and will consider how the various insurance coverages fit together when selecting the right coverage package.