Introduction to Risk Management for Land Trusts

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

This step-by-step assessment tool will help you write a customized risk management plan.

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.

This contains useful general risk mitigation guidance for nonprofits.

Suggestions and sample clauses for balancing risk when drafting conservation easements

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.

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.

Ann Taylor Schwing provides advice that land trusts can take to manage their risk, especially finances and legal documents.

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