Practice 5B: Accountability to Donors

Land Trust Standards and Practices, Practice 5B: Accountability to Donors, includes four elements. This 12-minute module covers the second element, 5B2.

Land Trust Standards and Practices, Practice 5B: Accountability to Donors, includes four elements. This 30-minute module covers the third element:

3. Maintain financial and other systems to document and comply with any donor restrictions on gifts

This is a template for gift acknowledgment for full or partial gift conservation easement, reviewed by the accredited Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.

This is a sample gift acceptance policy courtesy of the Natural Land Institute.

This is a template for contemporaneous written gift acknowledgement and was reviewed and approved by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission in December 2014.

This guidance covers Practice 5A: Legal and Ethical Practices.

A sample land trust gift acceptance policy, per 5B: Gift Acceptance Policy, adopted in June of 2019 by the accredited Bayou Land Conservancy

This is a sample gift acceptance policy, which is designed to provide written guidance to the Alliance staff and board to determine what types of gifts will be accepted and under what circumstances.

This guidance covers Practice 11E: Conservation Easement Enforcement.

This written gift acknowledgement is annotated and was reviewed and approved by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. The annotated version includes commentary from the Commission on specific elements required for accreditation.