Slide show describing the founding and operation of the nation's oldest self-sustaining regional service center for non-profit land conservation trusts, The Compact of Cape COd Cosnervation Trusts, Inc., founded 1986

3. INTRODUCTION

6. KEYS TO SUCCESS

9. No land trust needs to join a coalition to keep doing what they are doing.

11. All-volunteer land trusts can do land projects without The Compact. They cannot do multiple, complex projects simultaneously without The Compact.

12. BEGINNINGS

17. Board of Directors - 18 (each Voting Member land trust pays $1,500 per year and sends a delegate to vote on Compact matters; meets 7x/yr.) GOVERNANCE Thomsen Land Fund Managers – 6 (appointed by Board of Directors, including 2 at-large, non-board members; has separate decisionmaking on investments and requests by land trusts for mini-grants and low-interest loans; reports decisions to Board; meets as needed; advised by Exec. Dir.) Staff – 3 Executive Director Mark Robinson, 22 years Assistant Director Michael Lach, 8 years Senior Land Protection Specialist Paula Goldberg, 4 years (all full-time professionals) Nominating Committee – 3 Recommends officers, and annual award recipient

18. SERVICES

19. COMPACT REVENUES, 2006 Most of the funding for The Compact’s operations comes from the land trusts themselves, in the form of annual dues and fees for direct services on their local projects. Source: 2006 audit of The Compact

20. How Compact staff time is spent Regional Projects 20% General and Administration 4 % Member Land Trust Projects 76% Source: Compact timesheets, 2005

24. The Compact arranged this entire deal for the all-volunteer Yarmouth Conservation Trust and the Town. The Compact negotiated the purchase, secured the loans and guarantee, and wrote the State grant and the CR.

26. PROGRAMS

28. There are only 300 acres of American holly/American beech forest on Cape Cod, according to the Wildlife Conservation Project , a countywide GIS mapping project published by The Compact in 2003.

29. In 2003, The Compact published its Cape Cod Priority Ponds Project , which analyzed and ranked for protection almost 3,000 pondshore parcels totaling more than 12,000 acres.

30. In 2005, The Compact completed its Perceived Open Space Project , inventorying about 9,000 acres on Cape Cod, all unprotected lands used for recreation, agriculture or institutional use, such as the boy scout camp in Yarmouth shown here.

33. Photo by Farley Lewis How do we measure The Compact’s success?

35. 2. Testimonials re: credibility … Robinson is fortunate to be plugged into the network of land trusts across the Cape, "a very quiet collection of champions for open space," he said. "There would be no Compact were it not for these people wanting to see each other succeed all over the Cape." Their combined expertise is why towns, trusts, state agencies and national conservation groups view Robinson and the Compact as a clearinghouse for conservation projects, from walking trails to habitats of endangered species. "He's an asset to Cape Cod, that's for sure," said Elliott Carr, president of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. "We saw the Compact out there, fighting for open space, before there was a land bank," said Carr, who is also a board member of the Brewster Conservation Trust. “Robinson knows as much about the land in Brewster as any of us and is constantly coming in with ideas and expertise ." Cape Cod Times , 1999

36. 3 . No Voting Member has ever left The Compact Each land trust votes each year whether or not to renew its membership in The Compact. No land trust is obligated to join or rejoin. The fact that none has ever resigned its membership indicates that each land trust feels it is getting value for its dollar, in terms of services and access to benefits.

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