Somewhere not far from where you live, The Trust for Public Land is working to conserve the beautiful places that make your community special.

1. About The Trust for Public Land

2. The Trust for Public Land—Conserving land for people

3. 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.

4. From your neighborhood playground …

5. … to your favorite beach.

6. From the family farm up the road …

7. … to the walking trail down the street.

8. From the community garden ...

9. … to anywhere you might go to experience nature close at hand.

10. Our mission

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. Our initiatives
INITIATIVES
Parks for People
Our Land and Water

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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.

19. Our services
SERVICES Conservation Vision and GIS
Conservation Finance
Conservation Transactions
Park Design and Development
Research and Education

20. 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

21. We help partners craft measures
and pass legislation to secure
funding for park and
conservation efforts.
Conservation Finance

22. From pocket parks to vast
backcountry escapes, our real
estate experts help partners
acquire and protect land for the
public to enjoy.
Conservation Transactions

23. Using a unique participatory
design process, we help
communities create innovative
parks that foster a strong
connection to nature.
Park Design and Development

24. Our analyses, research, and
reports make the case for
parks, shaping conservation
policy from the statehouse to
the White House.
Research and Education

25. 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

26. 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.

27. 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?

28. 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?

29. The Trust for Public Land—Land for people