MLTN Infoline – March 9, 2021

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

7:30-9:00pm

Cost: $45 for MANP members*

Brought to you thanks to a partnership between Maine Association of Nonprofits and Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

Is building an inclusive and welcoming board culture a priority for your organization? While very important, even well-intended efforts to do so can be insensitive and harmful. It matters how your organization recruits board members and recruiting efforts must be done thoughtfully to create a culture that values every perspective. How do you diversify board membership? How do you set up an environment that welcomes and encourages diverse perspectives? How do you name the privilege that is in inherently in the room to ensure privileged voices sit back?

 

Visit MANP’s website for more information and to register.

 

*Most MLTN members are MANP members. Contact Donna to check on your organization’s membership status.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

1:00-2:00pm

Cost: FREE

Harbor Compliance Partnership Manager Sharon Cody, J.D. will share insights gained from helping thousands of nonprofits navigate the maze of state fundraising registration requirements. The webinar qualifies for 1 Certified Fund Raising Executives (CFRE) International credit.

 

You’ll learn: 

Register here.

Friday and Saturday, March 19 & 20, 2021

Cost: $65 until March 10; $75 beginning March 11; students $15

Attendees from other states are welcome! 

Join the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition and the Rhode Island Land Trust Council for two days of virtual learning and networking! Their theme is Building a Stronger Land Movement through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, with keynote speaker Carolyn Finney, scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. Choose from 29 sessions in 7 tracks, 2 plenaries, as well as networking options and live chats with exhibitors.

 

Learn more and registration now at https://www.accelevents.com/e/MARILandConf.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

2:00-3:00pm

Cost: FREE

Brought to you by The Land Trust Alliance

As land trusts across the country consider how to fund their land and climate work, the Land Trust Alliance has partnered with the Wildlife Conservation Society to share information on its Climate Adaptation Fund. The fund provides grant awards to conservation non-profits across the U.S. to catalyze innovative, science-driven projects that respond to the impacts of climate change on wildlife and people. To date, the program has awarded $19.6 million in funding to 104 adaptation projects across 42 states and territories. The focus of this year’s funding is to increase the pace and scale of learning and the implementation of actions that are making a difference for climate-impacted wildlife, ecosystems and people. 

 

The 2021 request for proposals will open in mid-March. More details will be released with the RFP and discussed on the webinar.

 

Visit LTA’s website to register.

In December 2020, the IRS released a new version of its Form 8283, replacing an earlier version dated November 2019. The new form and instructions can be found here on the IRS website. Although it is up to landowners and their advisors to follow the rules for claiming charitable deductions, land trusts can be helpful in pointing out the existence of the new version of the form.

 

Click here to read Rob Levin’s Maine Land Conservation Law E-Bulletin, which covers the details you need to know, and other conservation law news that may be of interest. While you’re there, you can subscribe to the Maine Conservation Law bulletins and his Maine Nonprofit Law bulletins, if you’d like to receive future editions.

It’s the time of year when job postings abound, both seasonal and permanent! Here are our latest additions. Click here for full list.

Development & Communications Coordinator – Coastal Mountains Land Trust

Nature Day Camp Leaders – Harpswell Heritage Land Trust

Land Steward – Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust

Summer Stewardship Internship – Loon Echo Land Trust

President – Maine Farmland Trust

Pre-proposals Due: Wednesday, April 7, 2021

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has announced a request for proposals for the 2021 National Coastal Resilience Fund. This year the fund will invest approximately $34 million in grants to create, expand, and restore natural systems that can help protect communities from sea- and lake-level changes, coastal storms, inundation, and erosion.

 

Full proposals are due June 23, 2021. NFWF will administer the funding in partnership with NOAA, as authorized by the National Oceans and Coastal Security Act (Section 906(c) of Title IX of Public Law 114–113). The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is holding a pre-proposal webinar on Wednesday, March 10. Webinar registration information and the complete request for proposals can be found here.