This year, the International Center for Community Land Trusts is launching its first-ever end-of-year campaign — an opportunity to reflect on what we’re building together and the relationships that make this work possible.
Across the world, CLTs are proving that another way of relating to land is possible: one rooted in permanence, participation, and collective care. This work grows through connection.
This end-of-year campaign, Land for People, Not for Profit, is our way of celebrating that connection. Over the next seven weeks, we’ll share stories from across the CLT Center’s initiatives: stories of how we’re working alongside partners to connect people, to share knowledge, and to support the global CLT movement.
Building the Infrastructure for a Global Movement
Our role at the CLT Center is simple: to support the people and organizations driving this movement forward. We connect practitioners across borders, share tools and knowledge, and help make visible the countless ways communities are stewarding land and preserving the affordability of residential and non-residential buildings for the common good.
This year, that work has taken many forms: partnerships with regional networks, new publications through Terra Nostra Press, World CLT Day, peer-learning workshops on climate justice, training sessions on CLTs in the Global South, both of which are expanding the conversation about collective land ownership in places most at risk of displacement due to climate change.
Each of these efforts shares the single goal: to strengthen the relationships and knowledge that make possible long-term community control of land and land-based assets.
What’s Ahead
In the coming weeks, we’ll highlight stories from across our initiatives:
- Week 2 – Climate Justice: How CLTs are responding to the climate crisis with creativity and collective action.
- Week 3 – World CLT Day: Celebrating global solidarity.
- Week 4 – Solidarity: The collaborators who make this work possible.
- Week 5 – Global South: Communities redefining land stewardship through mutual learning.
- Week 6 – A Living Library for a Global Movement: The role of Terra Nostra Press and our library in preserving the movement’s memory.
- Week 7 – Year in Review: Reflections on what we’ve built together, and where we’re headed next.
Why Now
As the year closes, we’re reminded that the strength of this movement lies not in any one organization, but in individuals like you, who believe that land should serve people and the planet, not for profit.
Every workshop, publication, and partnership we’ve shared this year was made possible by that collective belief, and by your support.
Join us over the next seven weeks as we reflect on a year of learning, collaboration, and impact. And if these stories resonate, consider helping us continue this work into 2026.