Introduction to fundraising planning

The Land Trust Alliance is excited to provide a new short-course for Connecticut land trusts to learn how to build a strategic fundraising program.

If you want to have more fun — and more success — with fundraising, remember that you’re giving people the chance to invest in their values and realize their dreams. The Alliance is excited to provide a new short-course for Southeast land trusts to learn how to build a strategic fundraising program.

The Land Trust Alliance and Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition are excited to provide a new short-course for Massachusetts land trusts to learn how to build a strategic fundraising program.

Learn how to build a strategic fundraising program for your land trust during three two-hour sessions. We’ll cover membership systems, major gift development, capital campaigns, events, donor strategies, planned giving and more to give you the tactics you

Join conservation and fundraising expert Judy Anderson, Community Consultants, as she provides tips and trends on how to build strong and enduring support by making people feel welcome, included and part of the change. 

This guidance covers Practice 5C: Fundraising Plan.

There are a hundred things an organization can do to raise money, but considerably fewer that make sense for a given land trust at any given time. This document presents a menu of strategies with an exercise designed to help you choose what is right for your land trust.

Led by top land trust experts, this special program geared towards board members serving small- and mid-sized land trusts will provide peer-validated ideas, tools, strategies and connections to help strengthen your organization and its governance.

Operating reserves ensure that your land trust can honor its commitment to steward land in perpetuity, and can allow your land trust to act quickly to seize opportunities.