Opportunity Snapshot
This unique fundraising role supports a mission you can be passionate about and offers a balance of challenge and opportunity that will keep you driven and engaged.
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In Connecticut, the Land for People Mission is Improving Community Connectedness and Wellbeing
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The Requirements
Self-motivation, leadership talent and strong fundraising experience are a must.
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The Role
You'll be a working leader, both creating and executing strategy.
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Why TPL
More great reasons to join us.
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Keys to Success
Those who succeed in this role share key traits.
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Connecticut Projects
Our scope is wide. You must be able to talk about small parks, large forests and an array of projects in between.
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“We were debating how best to keep the 400-year-old legacy of sustainable agriculture alive on Coogan Farm, and do it in a way that would best serve our community,” says Maggie Jones. She’s executive director of the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, which worked with The Trust for Public Land to purchase and protect the farm and now manages it as a public park and preserve.
“Hunger is a growing issue globally, but we also know that 23,000 people face food insecurity right here in New London County,” Jones says. To help change that, the nature center launched Coogan Farm’s Giving Garden, which supplies fruit and vegetables to 90 different community food banks.
A Park and Boathouse for Deserving Students
In the sport of crew, rowers talk about finding their “swing”—the blissful state when every athlete in the boat is working together in perfect unison. At the public high school in Stonington, Connecticut, the crew team knows a thing or two about swing. The team is nationally competitive—unusual in a sport dominated by private schools—and welcomes students regardless of their families’ ability to cover the costs. And for many Stonington rowers, the boat is their ride to college. “A female rower coming out of high school has a 50 percent chance of getting a scholarship to row in college,” Mike O’Neil, the Program Director says. “For a male, it’s 17 percent. But unlike most of their competition, the Stonington rowers don’t have their own boathouse, and transport gear for every practice.
When land came available for sale, The Trust for Public Land, in partnership with the Mystic River Historical District and town, the Mystic Seaport maritime history museum, and the students, helped purchase the land to be converted to a park and public boathouse.