The Alliance membership program is an organizational membership that provides benefits, accounts, resources, and support to its members. The Alliance membership program is available to any land trust, nonprofit organization, government agency, professional and corporate business who are dedicated to conserving our country’s most precious places and wish to join and access our resources. Member benefits, accounts, resources and support are available to all team members who conduct work on behalf of the member organization, including FT/PT staff, interns, board members, board emeritus, volunteer committee members and pro bono consultants.
Alliance membership provides essential benefits to team members at any position to continue their education and professional development, and connect members with one another through networking events, webinars, online forums and peer groups, and provide direct access from Alliance staff to help with guidance, questions and knowledge.
The Alliance membership provides members, and everyone within your organization, with the following:
Every Alliance member is dedicated to conserving our country’s most precious places. Members are connected through the special goal to protect and conserve the lands we love. Let’s have you join the Alliance and become part of this wonderful community!
"The Connecticut Land Conservation Council is a government affiliate of the Land Trust Alliance because we value all that they bring to our partnership in helping the organizations we work with to save land and create community."
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Please contact our member and affiliate services manager, Jorge Astorga, at jastorga@lta.org or 202-347-7475 if you have any questions about the membership program.
What's in an Alliance membership?
The Land Trust Alliance supports our land trust and affiliate members, along with their entire staff and board, so they may connect, grow and learn.
Providing resources to learn, connect and grow.
We provide the staff, board members and volunteers of our member organizations with standards, training and expertise so you have what you need to run and advance your organization.
"Five years ago I was a part-time executive director, and now we have five full-time staff. We've accomplished so much, and the Alliance's mark is on all of that."
On-the-ground support
The Alliance's regional staff are placed strategically across the country to provide local support and training that helps develop networks, empower change and grow conservation impact in every corner of the country. Their support ranges in size and scope, from deep investment in organizational leadership to simply offering a sympathetic ear.
Altogether over 40 years, these individual investments of time, energy and caring have added up to profound and often community-wide impacts.
The Alliance's regional staff are placed strategically across the country to provide region-specific support and training.
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Insurance for private land conservation.
In 2011, the Land Trust Alliance created Terrafirma, a charitable risk pool only for land trusts to insure them against the legal costs of safeguarding conservation. Terrafirma is owned exclusively by its 545 land trust members, and as of 2022, has insured 10 million acres of conserved land.
Land Trust Alliance land trust members are eligible to join this unique safety net for legal expenses so that they have the confidence and capability to uphold conservation in perpetuity.
Advocating for you
The Land Trust Alliance works with our members and partners to collectively advocate on behalf of land conservation. Together we’ve enacted key reforms, including:
"The Alliance has helped in so many ways. I really appreciate their prompts, so I know when things are happening and when to contact my representatives. They provide so much information about the issues that I feel I can speak with confidence about our position."
