Partnership and relationships
Building authentic partnerships and trusting relationships requires understanding how your land trust is viewed by people in your community and service area, actively listening to people in your community and taking actions to address what you hear.
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Work in partnership to increase benefits for all.
Land trusts across the nation are expanding their approach to conservation to engage more people, organizations, and interests in their communities. Building authentic partnerships and trusting relationships requires understanding how your land trust is viewed by people in your community and service area, actively listening to people in your community and taking actions to address what you hear. It also means elevating the voices and advancing the values and priorities of partners alongside your own, and using the skills and resources of your land trust in new ways to help realize partners’ goals.
The resources in this section will help you build relationships rooted in trust, transparency and accountability by sharing information, funding and other resources rather than extracting time, talent and traditions from your community.
Engaging community
Relevant Standards & Practices
This topic relates to the following components of Land Trust Standards and Practices:
Practice Element 1C2: Seek to engage people who are broadly representative of the community in which the land trust works and foster opportunities to connect them with the land
Practice Element 1C3: Develop an understanding of the land trust’s community, and communicate the land trust’s work, services and impact in a manner that resonates with and engages that community