Sample for Practice 7E: Nonprofit Human Resources Best Practices

Best practices for managing staff

appendix_07_E_10.pdf This is a personel policy from the accredited Gallatin Valley Land Trust.

This includes an employee handbook and personnel policies from Gathering Waters: Wisconsin's Alliance for Land Trusts.

This is a sample job description for an executive director from the accredited Mississippi Valley Conservancy.

Now updated with 2022 data, the Land Trust Salaries and Benefits Survey is the only comprehensive source of staff compensation data exclusively for the land trust community.

Unpredictable events involve risk which is a measure of the possibility that the future may be surprisingly different from what we expect. To fulfill its public service mission, land trust boards, employees and volunteers must manage risks effectively by countering the threats of loss and leveraging the opportunities for gain. A correctly tailored insurance portfolio is effective way to help manage risk.

This is a sample stewardship calculator from the accredited North Salem Open Land Foundation.