Edisto Island Open Land Trust
POSITION OPENING & REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
Position Title: Position Title: Development Director – leading to Executive Director role
Position Description:
Join this 15 year old conservation organization if you are
an experienced leader with proven fundraising, writing, presentation and marketing skills. Work with a team of
active Board Members, dedicated staff, and volunteers to implement an ambitious strategic plan. Direct experience in
non-profit membership development, capital (or major donor) campaigns, and/or consultative sales is preferred. A passion
for nature is a plus! Send resume with contact information
and at least three references to
eiolt@bellsouth.net
or mail to PO Box 1
Edisto Island, SC 29438.
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This is it...
2009 Is YOUR Year to Make The Move
The tax benefits for landowners who place a conservation easement on their land in 2009 are substantial. But, those benefits won't last long. The basics:
- When a landowner donates a conservation easement to a land trust, he gets to write off, as a
tax deduction, the appraised value of the easement.
- If the landowner sells the conservation easement to a land trust, he gets to write off, as a
tax deduction, the appraised value of the easement less the purchase price.
- In either case (donation or sale), the current IRS law allows the landowner to write off 50
percent of his adjusted gross income on each year’s tax return, for up to 16 years, or until the tax deduction balance runs out.
However, this IRS law expires on Dec. 31, 2009. After 2009 the tax deduction for a conservation easement donation will change and will likely revert back to the pre-2006 law. The pre-2006 law
allowed the deduction to be written off at 30 percent of AGI each year with a carry forward of only
five years.
A number of your neighbors are already working with EIOLT to conserve their land this year –
so don’t delay. Call us!
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