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Your Investment in Accreditation Matters

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Hot off the press: new publication and 2020 fee schedule. 

New Publication Describes Value of Accreditation

values pieceWe are excited to share a new resource 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. Please let us know what you think of it and how you use it!

2020 Fee Schedule Released

Many groups planning to apply or renew in 2020 are eager to budget for their application fee. An extended version of the “Your Investment in Accreditation Matters” fact sheet includes the 2020 fee schedule. Along with detailing the 2020 accreditation fees, it answers frequently asked questions such as what your accreditation fee covers and how many hours it takes to put together an application.

If you are thinking of applying next year, the lottery for 2020 first-time applications opens on May 31.

 

Posted 5/23/19