Contacts and Resources Regarding Community Land Trusts:

• 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
  
  
• The E. F. Schumacher Society is a think and do tank founded in 1980 by Robert Swann, the "father" of the Community Land Trust movement. Through its publications, conferences, seminars, website, speaker series, library, and model economic programs, the Society works to engage citizen activists in building sustainable local economies that link people, land, and community. It is an innovator in the application of the community land trust model.

• 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 Institute for Community Economics (ICE) is a national community development organization promoting economic justice through community land trusts and community investment. It is currently in the process of merging with another organization.

• 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.
  
  
• The School of Living has long-supported the community land trust model.

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