We did it, and YOU made it possible!
The first phase of CTNC’s work with and for the Town of Princeville is complete, and the students at Princeville Elementary School are so excited to have the outdoor learning lab, educational signage, and the Heritage Trail. None of this would have been possible without your investment in our vision of community-led conservation. Community-led conservation…
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Aligning Our Programs to Meet Community Goals
In the work to change the culture and practice of conservation, this means aligning our programs to better meet the community’s goals. In 2020, our team aligned the goals of our AmeriCorps program to meet new priorities that advance equity, improve public access, and enrich all our lives. The new Resilience Corps NC will harness…
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Youth to Help Seed Resilience at Princeville Elementary School
The Princeville partnership is a model for how conservation can meet community needs. After Hurricane Matthew flooded many Eastern NC communities in 2016, the Princeville Elementary School was shuttered for four years while renovations took place. This year, as students return to campus, local teens will help install conservation amenities at the school and in…
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Uniform Act Makes Way Through State Legislature Approvals
Families may soon have better safeguards against involuntary land loss Heirs’ property occurs when land is passed down through generations and owned by many descendants with an undivided interest in the land. Owners of family-owned land where the title to the property is not clear are vulnerable to involuntary land loss resulting from a forced…
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Resilience Corps NC Members Support COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
“My end goal is medical school, but rather than pursuing clinical research, I want to focus on how the socio-political and biocultural processes shape the daily affairs of medicine: illness, pain, birth, and death,” said Murphy Liu, 26, of Lenoir, North Carolina. “AmeriCorps gives me the chance to engage with the community, which, in turn,…
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A Strong Commitment to Public Trust and Conservation Excellence
CTNC Earns National Recognition from Land Trust Accreditation Commission Conservation Trust for North Carolina (CTNC) is proud to share it has renewed its land trust accreditation – proving once again that, as part of a network of over 400 accredited land trusts across the nation, it is committed to professional excellence and to maintaining the…
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Funding Critical Land Conservation in Western North Carolina
Through the Mountain Revolving Loan Fund, CTNC awards small grants to land trusts conserving critical lands in Western North Carolina. From direct assistance with land protection to awarding small grants, CTNC is proud to work alongside and support the efforts of our land trust partners throughout North Carolina. Each year, CTNC offers low-interest loans, and…
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A sincere apology
Since the early 2000s, CTNC has been committed to adopting diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our programs. In 2019, we deepened this path by adopting a values-driven approach to our work. One of those values is authenticity. Recently, we were given credit for developing a training tool that seeks to educate land trusts on…
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Restoration and Education Seeds Resilience with Princeville Elementary School Community
Diverse Partnerships and Long-term Funding Spur First Phase in Princeville Floodprint Since its founding as Freedom Hill in 1865, Princeville has survived the chaos of Reconstruction, the institutionalized discrimination of the Jim Crow era, and in recent years, multiple devastating floods. Resilience has long characterized this community — and of course, its people. Now, Princeville is…
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Investing in Resilient Watersheds
Your donation can make the difference for ensuring communities have safe, healthy drinking water in perpetuity. Few things are more fundamental to life than water. We need water in the right amounts in the right places with the highest quality. Yet more and more we face water shortages, water quality declines, and rising waters that…
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