Our Mission . . . To conserve important lands, the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts serves land conservation organizations and the public through advocacy, education and outreach.
 
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PUBLICATIONS AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES

As the only statewide association assisting land trusts and municipal open space programs across the state, CCLT works to track legislation impacting land conservation for our members' benefit.  As such, we have set up our site to: 

    1. alert members to current, proposed legislation that both positively and adversely impacts land protection efforts.  (These are current pieces of legislation that CCLT is tracking.);
    2. provide detailed alerts explaining bills, which CCLT worked to support, that have been enacted into law; 
    3. provide federal updates on relevant tax legislation, agricultural programs and policies, and federal programs as the Land and Water Conservation Fund.  
2004 Final Legislative Report 2003 Legislative Report

The site also links you to your State and Congressional Representatives and Senators and other relevant legislative sites across Colorado. 

Other Colorado Sites

  Colorado Bar Association Contains links to all state and federal laws
 THOMAS Link to the legislative body of the federal government. Includes information on current legislation, status and complete digest of proposed
legislation, committee mark-up calendars, and background and contact information for
United States Senators and Representatives.

Across the Nation - Land Trust Links

Search other land trust sites with relevant information pertaining to agricultural easements, forestry easements, and riparian and wetland restoration efforts.

Best Practices for Colorado Tax Credits (pdf file)

Partnership Opportunities for Land Trusts

Colorado Natural Heritage Program:  www.cnhp.colostate.edu Find informational reports, environmental reviews, and conservation priority area maps available to land trusts via the Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP).  CNHP operates as an information clearinghouse, providing biological and ecological data to interested organizations.

NDIS website: www.ndis.nrel.colostate.edu  Access GIS data and other locational CNHP data via the NDIS website.  GIS software is not required.  28.8k or faster modem is suggested.

Funding Opportunities & Informational Fundraising Sites

Community Resource Center   www.crcamerica.org  Since 1981, the Community Resource Center has assisted local organizations and communities in addressing a variety of issues and problems, including: rural health care, low income housing, water diversion, the agricultural crisis, immigration and civil rights issues, resource development and fundraising, economic and job development, and community planning. CRC helped start organizations such as the Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations (CANPO), Coalition to Save Rural America, Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, Hope! Alive (Pueblo), and Community Shares of Colorado.

CRC has developed a reputation for tackling difficult issues with its hands-on, practical approach to organizational and community problem solving, relying on the strong belief that most resources already exist within an organization or community to successfully address issues and create a vision for the future.  Click on the CRC website to find information on:  training, motivating, organizing, energizing, mobilizing, focusing, supporting, and leveraging resources, people, capital, and ideas, to bring about solutions to problems.

EE Link:   www.eelink.net:   Provides links to funding sources, environmental resources, and various environmental directories.

Foundation Center   www.fdncenter.org The mission of the Foundation Center is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. Our audiences include grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. Click on the Foundation Center website to find a link to an online foundation grantmaking directory and other helpful funding sites.

National Charities Information Board:  www.give.org  NCIB's mission is to promote informed giving and to enable more contributors to make sound giving decisions. NCIB believes that donors are entitled to accurate information about the charitable organizations that seek their support. NCIB also believes that well-informed givers will ask questions and make judgments that will lead to an improved level of performance by charitable organizations. NCIB is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, to which contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.  Click on the NCIB’s website to find information about various charities across the state.

Philanthropy News Network Online  www.pnnonline.org   Site provides information on national professional and ethical standards for fundraisers and charities.

Want more information on the aforementioned topics? Click on CONSERVATION LINKS to browse land trust sites that contain relevant information.