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    Managing Risk to Ensure Conservation Permanence

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    Event Date
    February 2–23, 2024
    Source
    Land Trust Alliance
    Location
    Virtual
    Instructor
    Connie Manes
    About This Event

    Risk management isn’t something to be scared of – it’s about being prepared for “what if?” Positively managing risk will lead to greater efficiency, more land protected, better stewardship and durable organizations, in other words — ensuring conservation permanence. By assessing and managing risk, your land trust can reduce the likelihood of negative outcomes and increase the likelihood of positive ones.

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

    This program is designed especially for small, medium and all-volunteer land trusts. Take the leap to learn about how to develop a risk management mindset from land trust experts to put your organization on a solid footing to face inevitable uncertainties.

    The four-session virtual training series will take place weekly on consecutive Fridays, beginning Feb. 2 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Central, Noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern.

    Contents will help to demystify and uncomplicate the risk management process. Sessions will be interactive and include a short break.

    Thanks to generous funding from our partner, Gathering Waters: Wisconsin’s Alliance for Land Trusts, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust and The Carls Foundation we are able to deliver this training at a reduced cost of $75 for Land Trust Alliance members. Estimated value is $318 per person.

    Session overview

    • Feb. 2

      Introduction to Managing Risk

      • Dimensions of risk management.

      • Understanding your organization's risk tolerance.

      • Tools to help you assess and weigh risks.

    • Feb. 9

      Governance and Finance

      • Governance and finance considerations for protecting land in perpetuity.

      • Considerations for your human resources: board members, employees and volunteers.

      • Organizational reputation.

      • Budgetary needs.

    • Feb. 16

      Land Transactions

      • Considerations for project selection, transactions, recording and recordkeeping.

      • Ensuring sound transactions, legal review, title work, budgets, environmental review and more.

    • Feb. 23

      Stewardship and Public Programs

      • Monitoring, baseline documentation, management plans and dealing with trespass, violations and other management issues.

      • Programming, volunteers and communications.

    Virtual event cancellation policy

    Cancellations and refunds will not be provided for any virtual programs where recordings of the program will be available after the live broadcast. If a registrant cannot participate live, they are encouraged to view the recording of that event or submit a transfer request to registration@lta.org. All virtual events will state on the event page if it will be recorded. We cannot apply credit from a cancelled purchase to your account.

    Recording

    This event will be recorded and available to registrants.