International Center for Community Land Trusts

Established to promote and to support Community Land Trusts and similar strategies of community-led development on community-owned Land in countries throughout the world.the Center provides the following services: (a) collecting and curating historical materials documenting the origins and evolution of the worldwide clt movement; (b) conducting, cataloging, and disseminating academic and non-academic research; (c) producing case studies, directories, guides, and other educational materials; and (d) providing training, referral, and technical assistance for organizers and practitioners working with clts and similar strategies for the equitable and sustainable development of place-based communities.during 2023, we continued to develop our organizational website, which contains the largest collection of resource materials about Community Land Trusts in the world; we published "reweaving the tapestry of tenure", a print and digital publication that collected interviews with elders of the Community Land trust movement; and we organized online educational events and convened topic-based working groups to further our educational efforts.