Standards & Practices

Issue 4 – Why Standards?

Helpful Links

• Land Trust Standards and Practices - information page
• Sample Board Resolution
• Training opportunities via the Land Trust Alliance

Cited Articles from Exchange

• Why Standards Matter, by Jean Hocker in Exchange, Spring 1997
• The New Land Trust Standards and Practices - Advancing Land Trust Excellence by Rand Wentworth in Exchange, Fall 2004

Additional Resources

• Standards for Charity Accountability (Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance)
• Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century (book)
  by Thomas Wolf and Barbara Carter. 1999 (originally edition published in 1984).
  Simon & Schuster, trade paperback, 368 pages.

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