How We Work: Methods
Defense of Place assists local communities, activists and organizations who are standing up for their public trust lands and invite us to participate. We provide strategic and public relations advice, technical information and fundraising assistance to help these groups ensure permanent protection for the lands they love.
- Strategic and Public Relations Strategies: Defense of Place will help you shape an appropriate media and public relations strategy for your land protection campaign. The timing of a campaign is crucial to its success; it is not only important who you reach with your outreach efforts but also when and with what message. We can help write and review press releases, letters to editors, and website text. We can support your media strategy with our own press releases and provide links to your organization on our website which reaches a national audience.
- Technical Information: Defense of Place can help you determine which federal and state laws may help your case (such as the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the National and state Environmental Protection Acts etc) and help you understand how to use them. The Freedom of Information Act and similar state statutes guarantee your access to most public documents and is crucial to your campaign; DOP can help you understand this law and how to use it. In the future Defense of Place will be partnering with the National Lawyers Guild to develop and post a summary of park protection cases nationwide that can inform your protection efforts.
- Fundraising Assistance: Defense of Place can help groups that do not have tax exempt status with the IRS accept donations from their supporters and seek assistance from foundations.
For more information visit our Resources and Tools pages.
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