Melissa Levy presented the Board Member Summit, “Increasing Your Land Trust’s Impact through Collaboration” with Judy Anderson, Principal of Community Consultants. The session shared examples of how land trusts have collaborated and conserved more land, became more efficient, built more capacity, and raised more money. The interactive workshop provided participants with ideas, tools and strategies to help strengthen their organizations through partnerships and collaboration. Participants explored: a) what areas are ripe for collaboration; b) when collaboration makes sense; c) minefields to avoid; d) mechanics of collaboration, including communications; and e) value propositions and planning for collaboration. Participants also discussed a variety of opportunities for collaboration, from partnerships, shared staff, phased approaches, program development and mergers.
Innovators in Rural Community Economic Development
