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about the community land trust in the southern berkshires
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  • The National Community Land Trust Association is a newly formed organization designed to serve its member organizations. Its members offer a variety of experience and skills for development of community land trusts. To join the NACLT Network listserv, click here or email NACLTNetwork-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
  • E. F. Schumacher Society is an educational non-profit that initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society. The Society has helped communities develop Community Land Trusts since 1980. Their website includes background documents on creating CLTs, as well as model legal documents.
  • The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy seeks to improve the quality of public debate and decisions in the areas of land policy and land-related taxation through courses and its magazine Land Lines. Its work is inspired by the writings of Henry George, a pioneer in the study of the role of land in the economic system. The Lincoln Institute hosts the Community Land Trust Academy.
  • The School of Living is also a good source of model legal documents.
  • The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is a nonprofit community-based planning and organizing entity based in the Roxbury/North Dorchester area of Boston. DSNI is the only community-based nonprofit in the country which has been granted eminent domain authority over abandoned land within its boundaries.

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Contact Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires
PO Box 276
Great Barrington, MA 01230
413.528.1737
 
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