Programs
Programs Underway
Endowment for a Living Landscape.
Summary: This program tracks our founding epiphany and directly serves our vision. We are creating this endowment, this war chest large enough to sustain recurring preservation activity as a decisive weapon in the dynamic fight to defeat unrestricted profit-motivated development. Read more . . .
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Conservation Advocacy and Representation Services (LCAT Legal).
Summary:
Preserving open spaces and fighting urban and suburban sprawl can feel like an uphill battle. In spite of your good intentions, determined developers and prohibitive legal costs may cause you give up on your vision of restoring land to create a beautiful park or wildlife habitat. The Conservation Advocacy and Representation Services (“CARS”) Program is here to lend its support.
What is it? The CARS program helps by providing legal representation to organizations that conserve land—at no cost or at a reduced fee. We also act as amicus curiae (“Friend of the Court”) in important conservation cases. Read more . . .
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Programs In Planning
Neighborhood Revitilization Program.
Summary: The LCAT Neighborhood Revitalization program is designed to take properties in urban and suburban areas that have fallen into a state of blight and are bank-owned as a result of foreclosures and turn them into local natural micro-parks or, in partnership with residents or other local groups, turn them into community gardens. Read more . . .
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Community Food System Partnership.
Summary: The goal of the Community Food System project is to provide a sustainable urban/suburban farming center in Boston’s Metrowest that will be partially staffed by developmentally challenged children and adults from a local respite center. Read more . . .
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