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Help Us Conserve the Colorado
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Investing Your Conservation Dollars Where You Wish
The Colorado Conservation Trust provides a wide range of services to fulfill your philanthropic goals.
- First, we offer a helping hand. We work with you and your financial or legal advisor to define your charitable goals and identify areas of philanthropic interest.
- Second, we help you determine the most effective vehicle for your charitable giving — a program or area specific fund, a donor advised fund, a field of interest fund, or an unrestricted gift.
- Third, we offer our expertise in grantmaking, due diligence, and knowledge of the full range of needs, opportunities, and organizations working in land conservation across the state. With 30 years of combined expertise in land conservation, transactions, and grant-making, you can be assured that your gifts will be channeled effectively to the organizations and projects you want to help — with the minimum administrative burden on you.
- Finally, we take care of all the grant administration, post-grant evaluation, and filings with the IRS.
By setting up a fund or providing restricted or unrestricted gifts to CCT, you can be as active as you like in your philanthropy, or as "hands off". In either case, you will be making a gift that ensures the protection of important natural areas regardless of which specific tool is needed or which conservation organization is carrying out the work on the ground. In many places, several groups are working toward the same broader land protection goals using different methods, and a donation to a single organization or single project, while important, may not help achieve the longer term and broader land protection goals.
The donor will also have CCT's assurance that each organization that is funded is capable of accomplishing the land protection project and is doing so in concert with other organizations as part of a larger land protection strategy.
Working Capital
Conservation Loan Funds
Many conservation transactions are delayed while waiting for public funding or private funding to become available. CCT has developed a pooled revolving loan fund made up of capital invested by individuals and foundations. The fund makes loans to land trusts and public agencies to bridge the time between when the transaction has to close and when the money is available. As each loan is repaid, the funds can be lent out again for new transactions. At the end of a predetermined period, the capital is repaid to the original investors, with some limited return.
Alternatively, a donor can provide a short-term loan to facilitate the completion of a specific transaction.
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