Speakers: Ross Fraser, Cade Associates Insurance Brokers Limited; Connie Manes, Land Trust Alliance/Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative/Kent Land Trust
Have you worried about potential legal challenges, whether or not your land trust is sufficiently safeguarding its assets, or what may happen to your protected lands years from now? How can you best ensure the continued impact and sustainability of your conservation work? This workshop will help land trust board members and staff understand and identify risk in their organizations and introduce risk management strategies, including mitigation of financial risk through insurance coverage. Land trust consultant Connie Manes will introduce the discipline of risk management and provide an overview of common areas of risk within land trusts’ governance, financial management, land protection, and stewardship functions. Ross Fraser of Cade Associates Insurance Brokers Limited will provide an overview of the OLTA insurance program, including some key coverage considerations and new exposures to consider. Ample time was provided for comments and questions, as well as the sharing of resources and recommendations for post-workshop action.