Join OLTA

Membership in the Ontario Land Trust Alliance is open to land trust organizations working to conserve Ontario’s incredible natural and cultural heritage. It is only by working together that we will succeed in saving the land we love for future generations.

Join the Ontario Land Trust Alliance

Membership in the Ontario Land Trust Alliance is open to land trust organizations working to conserve Ontario’s incredible natural and cultural heritage. It is only by working together that we will succeed in saving the land we love for future generations. Our membership year is July 1 to June 30.

OLTA Member

There is only one voting member category – land trust member. Land trust members are registered charities actively working to secure and steward conservation lands.

All new applicants for membership will be admitted to OLTA only after a review of their membership application via a resolution of the Board of Governors. The organization must pass a board resolution adopting the Canadian Land Trust Standards and Practices as the ethical and technical guidelines for their organization’s operations and commit to making continual progress toward the implementation of these standards and practices.

OLTA Associate

An Associate must be a non-profit corporation and have in its objects the protection and conservation of natural and cultural heritage areas. This group includes conservation authorities, national land trusts and municipalities. Associate is a supporter category.

Associate charities are encouraged, but not obliged, to adopt the Canadian Land Trust Standards and Practices as the technical and ethical guidelines for their organization’s land securement and stewardship activities.

Associates may use the affiliation OLTA Associate.

OLTA Emerging Land Trust

This Associate category is available to organizations working towards becoming a land trust or a new land trust that has had charitable status for five years or less. Benefits are reduced rates for workshops and other training, plus access to land conservation networks.

This Associate category may use the affiliation OLTA Emerging Land Trust.

OLTA Land Steward

This Associate category is available to small not-for-profits who work with lands and nature and would like to benefit from connecting more closely with the land trust community, but are not a land trust. Benefits are reduced rates for workshops and other training, plus access to land conservation networks.

This Associate category may use the affiliation OLTA Land Steward.

Other Ways to Help

If you are an individual looking for ways you can help, there are many opportunities available.

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Become a Professional Partner

Professional Partners provide valuable services as part of the land trust and conservation community. You can now promote your services with present and potential clients AND support land conservation and the work of land trusts across Ontario.

Professional Partner Benefits:

Connection

Connect directly with OLTA members that own and steward more than 135,000 acres of lands across Ontario

Awareness

Online directory listing with a description of services and link to your company website, easily accessible for OLTA members

Discounts

Discounted registration for OLTA training, webinars and workshops

Community

Discounted registration for the OLTA Annual Land Trust Gathering; a land trust community networking event

Displays

Display company literature at the Annual Land Trust Gathering

Resources

Access to the on-line Information Library & our digital resource centre

Promotion

Promote your services in OLTA’s newsletters, website, and Facebook page

Recognition

Special recognition in OLTA’s Annual Report

Join as a Partner

For only $1500, your annual contribution will help to build the land trust community. Together, we will save the land we love.

To join as a professional partner, please complete the form and send it, together with your contribution, to:

Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.
P.O. Box 54 Acton
Acton, Ontario L7J 2M2

For more information please contact Alison Howson, OLTA’s Executive Director at 905-208-6582 or [email protected].