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Your Investment in Accreditation Matters

Commission Resources Describe Value of Accreditation

We are excited to share with you resources that highlights how Your Investment in Accreditation Matters.

Accreditation strengthens the land trust movement, keeps you on the leading edge and pays you back.

This new piece demonstrating the value of accreditation can be shared with your board and staff as well as with landowners and supporters. It includes data on how accredited land trusts save more land and raise more money, and are better positioned to protect, defend and steward land.

First-Time Overview Video

Watch a video that outlines the first-time accreditation process. And take a look at our other video tutorials to help you understand the application process and on using the accreditation management system.

Ten Years of Accreditation Impact

See the results from the 2018 Land Trust Accreditation Impact Evaluation, a new independent report quantifying the impact of the land trust community’s investment in the first 10 years of the accreditation program.

The study shows accreditation’s positive impact on public confidence in land trusts and on the permanence of conservation, including how over 80% of landowners, foundations and agencies say accreditation increases their confidence in land trusts.

Read the recent feature article from Saving Land magazine.