In three easy steps, My Real Estate Gift Guide can help you find a real estate gift tailored to your personal situation.
Donor Story
By donating her house to the Conservancy, Betty Anne Schenk found a way to provide a lifetime income for herself and save on taxes, but most importantly she could provide support for her lifelong passion: conservation.
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Thank you for visiting this page and for considering a gift of real estate to The Nature Conservancy. We’re glad you’re here.
The Conservancy accepts two types of real estate gifts — both of which are vital to our work:
Land that donors would like permanently protected. Because our mission is science-based, we are not able to protect all of the real estate that is offered to us. The decisions to accept or decline land for preservation are made at the state level. If you are interested in making such a gift, please contact your
local Nature Conservancy office.
Gifts we call "trade lands" — real estate gifts that donors permit us to sell, with the proceeds going to support our work. Examples include first and second homes, apartments and retail buildings. You will find a wealth of information about them in this section of our Web site.
If You Own Real Estate, You Have Needs
Owning real estate brings responsibilities and challenges — and creates wants and needs, especially as your situation changes over time. The animation at the top of this page illustrates one of many such needs common to real estate owners: the need to dispose of underutilized property that's either too big, too demanding of one's time and money, or too far away.
Real estate gifts can help property owners meet their own needs as well as support the Conservancy.
We Know Real Estate
The Conservancy has unrivaled experience with real estate. Since its inception in 1981, our trade land program has raised over $250 million from real estate gifts. We also own and manage more than $1.5 billion of conservation land.
We Can Help
We have a nationwide staff of gift planners who are experts in the many ways real estate gifts can be used to meet your needs and fulfill your wants.
To find out how, visit My Real Estate Gift Guide. It will help you find a real estate gift tailored to your personal situation in three easy steps:
Pick the three wants and needs that are most important to you.
Learn about the gift possibilities that come closest to meeting your needs.
Arrange for a personal conversation with one of our gift planners to determine which gift would be best for you.
This site will answer many of your questions about donating real estate to the Conservancy, but it may raise others. We hope that you will visit this page again and contact
us whenever we can help.
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