Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Our communities urgently need leaders with courage, compassion, and the practical skills to make change. Our communities need you! And you need what you'll gain in the Lincoln Vibrant Communities Fellows program. Heighten your ability to enact real change alongside a network of other leaders nationwide. This program is largely underwritten by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and CLU for a limited number of cohorts. Apply by 11/1 to join our second-ever cohort of leaders in this innovative program: https://lnkd.in/eZXuFeYV

Wondering if the Lincoln Vibrant Communities Program is for you? If you would benefit from learning skills and tools related to community engagement, strategic communication, collaboration, and team building, designing policies for intentional change, scenario planning, building cases and models, and storytelling to influence, then YES, it is for you! This program is built to develop new, urgently needed leaders in or adjacent to the public sector. If any of this sounds like you, take advantage of our extended application deadline: https://lnkd.in/eZXuFeYV Apply by 11/1!

#SOCAP24 attendees: don't miss the fireside chat on data-driven partnerships for impact investing that our Accelerating Community Investment (ACI) initiative is hosting at 3 p.m. PT today! Senior Fellow RJ McGrail will be joined by Devin Culbertson and Pierre Joseph from ACI initiative participants the Grounded Solutions Network & the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston plus Reina Murray from the Center for Geospatial Solutions. SOCAP Global

This morning in Corral Gables, Florida, George McCarthy, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, spoke at the Communities of Excellence 2026 Housing and Economic Vitality Summit. He shared the Center for Geospatial Solutions Who Owns America data and challenged the audience to think about the housing crisis being perpetuated because the United States where we treat housing as a commodity. He began to address the vacancy chain study from Harvard, which shows that the vacancy chain of building market-rate housing doesn’t reach down the chain to create affordable housing. Lynn Priddy, PhD, President and CEO of Claremont Lincoln University, joins Mac at the Communities of Excellence, sharing the innovative Lincoln Vibrant Communities Fellows and Teams Programs. This program helps to create the urgently needed leaders to make the public policy that supports all of our communities. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eJYuxUPV

Excited to be headed to #SOCAP24 with our Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Accelerating Community Investment participants for a fireside chat on the lessons we're learning that can help impact and values aligned capital land in authentic, impactful ways with public sector and community partners. I'm excited to be joined in this conversation by my colleagues: ✅Reina Murray ✅Devin Culbertson ✅Pierre Joseph The session is being held on Monday, October 28 at 3pm PT in the Screnint Room, and more details are below. If you're attending, or want to, come join us and/or click here to join us in San Fransisco: https://bit.ly/4aglOji

In Case You Missed It: A Powerful Evening with "A Decent Home" We were honored to screen "A Decent Home," a thought-provoking documentary by Sara Terry that sheds light on urgent issues of class and economic mobility through the stories of mobile homeowners. The screening was followed by an insightful Q&A with Terry and leaders from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Claremont Lincoln University, sparking meaningful conversations on housing, equity, and change. Watch the video to hear key points from this impactful event! #ADecentHome #economicmobility #AffordableHousing #CommunityImpact

#ICYMI: The deadline to apply to the second cohort of our Lincoln Vibrant Communities Fellows Program, run alongside Claremont Lincoln University, has been extended to November 1. The program is designed for leaders who are already engaged in, or who aspire to create, critical change in their communities, and entails a six-month hybrid program that includes immersive in-person training and events that are complemented by full online leadership curricula, individual and group coaching, expert webinars, and peer networking. Learn more and submit your application: https://lnkd.in/ebbByxd7

We are thrilled to join the Open Space Institute in announcing that attorney and conservationist Mavis Gragg has been presented with the distinguished 2024 Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award. Mavis is co-founder of HeirShares, an organization that delivers comprehensive educational content, data, and technology to empower heirs' property landowners and attorneys dealing with heirs’ property issues. She is also a founding member of the Conservationists of Color, an affinity group creating space for practitioners of color within the land conservation movement to connect. Mavis is also a member of our Conservation Defense Advisory Council and served on its Common Ground Advisory Council, which laid the groundwork for the Alliance’s community-centered conservation program. The Kingsbury Browne Award is presented annually at Rally: The National Land Conservation Conference and honors those who have enriched the conservation community through their outstanding leadership, innovation, and creativity in land conservation. Named for Kingsbury Browne, the conservationist who inspired the Alliance’s founding in 1982, the award ranks among the organization’s highest honors. Gragg will serve as the Kingsbury Browne distinguished practitioner for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., for 2024-2025. Congratulations, Mavis!

On November 18, Lincoln Institute and scenario planning experts from Latin America will host a webinar on their work with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning of Chile (Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo) following the country’s January 2024 wildfires. Heather Sauceda Hannon and Giovanni Pérez will share best practices and lessons learned from working with the Ministry of Housing on reconstruction efforts and policy changes. The webinar will coincide with the release of a toolkit designed to give attendees the resources they need, including facilitation guides, agendas, and proposed budgets, to replicate the process in their own communities. Register for the noon ET webinar: https://lnkd.in/eQFWcTna

Este año recibimos 265 postulaciones al del Premio Lincoln al periodismo sobre políticas urbanas, desarrollo sostenible y cambio climático—Homenaje Tim Lopes, 2024. Con tantos reportajes de gran calidad como candidatos, decidimos dar 5 Menciones Honoríficas para reconocer y estimular la diversidad de voces periodísticas en la región. Felicitamos a los ganadores de Menciones Honoríficas 2024:    𝘈𝘲𝘶𝘪 𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘺 𝘓𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘳 6 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘢 Lucía Viridiana Vergara García, Darío Ramírez, Isabel Mateos, Rodrigo Flores Esquinca, Alonso Esquinca Díaz, Erick Retana, Eduardo Mota García y Eduardo Buendía, Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, México https://lnkd.in/ea94R2Ay https://lnkd.in/edCfE85D   ¿𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘳? 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘴, 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘥𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘢 𝘥𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢 Daniel Fonseca, Desiré Santander y equipo, La séptima generación de la RedLatam de Jóvenes Periodistas https://lnkd.in/e5-h3jze   𝘈𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘴: 𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘢 𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘰 𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 Aitor Sáez, Pie de Página, México https://lnkd.in/eCaBEMq2   𝘋𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘢 𝘢 𝘭𝘢 𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘣𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘫𝘰 𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘢 𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘥𝘦 𝘜𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘺, de Este a Oeste Miguel Ángel Dobrich y Gabriel Farias, Amenaza Roboto, Uruguay https://lnkd.in/ep4KKBua   𝘊𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘪𝘢𝘴 Vinicius Sassine y Lalo de Almeida, Folha de S.Paulo, Brasil https://lnkd.in/eKtZANiy