We’re excited to welcome new organizations to the team
and are happy to consider new applications—at the full member or associate level.
Associate member qualifications:
Additionally, full members must:
Member Benefits
We have two options for organizations seeking membership to COLT—associate membership and full membership.
Associate members receive:
Members
receive:
*The Land Trust Alliance’s Oregon ACE grant guidelines include an eligibility requirement that grant applicants must be full members of the Alliance and of COLT.
The Fine Print
Here are the relevant sections from COLT’s Bylaws on potential new members:
COLT BYLAWS ON NEW MEMBER ADMISSION:
(a) Existing as a nonprofit land trust organization registered to do business in the State of Oregon and recognized as a public charity organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code;
(b) Having the conservation of private land in Oregon through willing-donor or seller/willing-donee or buyer transactions as all or part of its mission; and
(c) Having adopted, and having agreed to abide by, the Land Trust Alliance’s standards and practices.