Sample for Practice 6E: Risk Matrix

Land trusts are constantly balancing risk by assessing these profound changes and balancing the opportunities and risks they present. Using the following seven steps, your land trust can assess fully the impact on the organization of new (and old) challenges and opportunities.

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

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.

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.

Download an editable version of the risk management plan template from the upcoming publication Working in a Changing Climate – Preparing for and Responding to Natural Disasters.