That was a wonderful program. Did it work for our organizations? I would say there were mixed results.
The Nature Conservancy, God bless them—we love them—were able to put the funds to work for their priorities and for their projects. I am so happy they are in the Atlantic provinces, frankly. Certain land trusts could access the funding, but I would say that a future program of similar or larger scope would be much better if it enabled local organizations, those whose priorities did not necessarily include those of the Nature Conservancy, to actually exercise some of their local strategic planning priority areas in terms of securement.
This is why I suggested that the Land Trust Alliance, the umbrella group, is a possibility for delivering something that actually taps into the 100-plus land trusts that exist across the country and our grassroots volunteer organizations within communities that aren't necessarily overlapping with Nature Conservancy priorities.