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About The Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land—Conserving land for people
The Trust for Public Land
Somewhere not far from where you live, The Trust for Public Land is working to conserve the beautiful places that make your community special.
From your neighborhood playground …
… to your favorite beach.
From the family farm up the road …
… to the walking trail down the street.
From the community garden ...
… to anywhere you might go to experience nature close at hand.
Our mission
What we do
Founded in 1972, The Trust for Public Land is the leading nonprofit working to conserve land for people. We protect the places people care about and create close-to-home parks—particularly in and near cities, where 80 percent of Americans live.
Operating from more than 30 offices nationwide, we’ve protected more than 3 million acres from the inner city to the wilderness.
What we do
Nearly ten million people live within a ten-minute walk of a Trust for Public Land park, garden, or natural area, and millions more walk on our work every year.
What we do
Our initiatives
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Our Land and Water
The Trust for Public Land works in cities and suburbs across America to ensure that everyone—in particular, every child—enjoys close-to-home access to a park, playground, garden, or natural area.
Parks for People
The Trust for Public Land protects farms, ranches, forests, and other working lands that foster a healthy, vibrant agricultural system and support land-based livelihoods.
Working Lands
The Trust for Public Land conserves wilderness, including places that safeguard clean drinking water and preserve the natural beauty of coasts and waterways.
Land and Water
How we do it
The Trust for Public Land offers a range of services to address the conservation needs of the 21st century. We help communities raise funds for conservation, conduct conservation research and planning, acquire and protect land, and design and renovate parks, gardens, and playgrounds.
Our services
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Conservation Vision and GIS
Conservation Finance
Conservation Transactions
Park Design and Development
Research and Education
We provide the tools communities need to identify the most important land for conservation—and create and carry out a plan to protect it.
Conservation Vision and GIS
We help partners craft measures and pass legislation to secure funding for park and conservation efforts.
Conservation Finance
From pocket parks to vast backcountry escapes, our real estate experts help partners acquire and protect land for the public to enjoy.
Conservation Transactions
Using a unique participatory design process, we help communities create innovative parks that foster a strong connection to nature.
Park Design and Development
Our analyses, research, and reports make the case for parks, shaping conservation policy from the statehouse to the White House.
Research and Education
At The Trust for Public Land, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to connect with nature. Research clearly shows that access to nature is an essential prescription for the physical, environmental, social, and economic health of a community.
Why we do it
Why support The Trust for Public Land?
Because we have a proven record of success. § We’ve worked for more than 40 years to conserve land for people.
§ Since 1972, we’ve completed more than 5,000 park and conservation projects across 47 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, conserving more than 3 million acres of land, from the inner city to the wilderness.
§ We are the national leader in creating public funds for land conservation, working with states, counties, and cities to generate $34 billion for local conservation efforts since 1996.
§ We’ve created, sustained, or supported 340 local land trusts nationwide.
Because your donation goes further at The Trust for Public Land
§ Because we pool funds from many sources, every $1 donated to The Trust for Public Land conserves more than $4 worth of land.
Because we operate efficiently.
§ 84 percent of every donation made to The Trust for Public Land goes directly to our conservation programs.
§ The Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance, Forbes magazine, and Charity Watch (formerly The American Institute of Philanthropy) all give The Trust for Public Land their highest marks for accountability and efficiency.
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Why support The Trust for Public Land?
Because everyone should have the opportunity to connect with nature. § More and more research supports what many of us already know
about the value of nature in our lives: an investment in parks and open space is an investment in community health and vitality. Parks, playgrounds, gardens, and trails: • Boost the local economy
• Safeguard water resources
• Offset the effects of climate change
• Provide opportunities for recreation and respite
• Connect neighbors to the outdoors and to each other
Why support The Trust for Public Land?
The Trust for Public Land—Land for people
