Partnerships
In addition to conserving land and creating trails, Aquidneck Island Land Trust works on a number of conservation projects to make local farming viable, improve health in the community, improve water quality, educate the community on various environmental issues, and advocate for smart policy at the municipal and state levels. The Land Trust works closely with the Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth town councils and many local non-profits, state-wide organizations, and government agencies. Some recent collaborations include:
Aquidneck Resilience
Aquidneck Resilience is an island-wide initiative focused on developing actionable strategies and implementing projects to increase our community’s resilience to more frequent and intense weather events.
With dedicated staff, Aquidneck Resilience works to support our municipal and local non-profit partners by helping to secure funding, write grants, manage resilience projects, facilitate knowledge sharing across municipal boundaries, and engage and educate the community.
Newport Health Equity Zone
The Health Equity Zone (HEZ) is a city-wide coalition mobilizing residents and resources of the Broadway and North End neighborhoods to make Newport a place where everyone can thrive. The HEZ envisions a city where structural, financial, and environmental barriers to health and well-being are eliminated; public policy fosters the good health of all residents; and residents feel empowered to control the health of their families and community.
Newport Open Space Partnership
This partnership of the Land Trust, Newport Tree Conservancy, Aquidneck Island Planning Commission, City of Newport, and Newport Tree and Open Space Commission works to implement a citywide vision to ensure the future success of Newport through economic sustainability, improved transportation, and safe and reliable access to trees, parks, and open space. The partnership strives to encourage greater public participation in planning and stewardship activities and help our open spaces flourish and contribute to the greater well-being of our city for years to come.
The Almy Pond Watershed Protectors
The Almy Pond Watershed Protectors are dedicated to improving water quality in Almy Pond. The coalition consists of nine local organizations including the Land Trust, Salve Regina University, Newport Tree Conservancy, Newport Preservation Society, Save The Bay, Spouting Rock Beach Association Foundation, the Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England, RI Department of Health (RIDOH), and RI Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM). The City of Newport is also actively engaged.
Scenic Aquidneck
Scenic Aquidneck is focused on enhancing and preserving the visual quality of Aquidneck Island. A collaboration of three nonprofit partners – Preserve Rhode Island, The Preservation Society of Newport County and the Aquidneck Island Land Trust – the Coalition brings together resources to execute projects for the benefit of the Island’s communities.
Rhode Island Land Trust Council
The Council is the coalition of our state’s land trusts – community-based organizations formed to protect scenic open spaces, farms, forests, historic sites, and watersheds that define the character of our communities, keep us healthy, protect wildlife habitat and drinking water supplies, and provide local food & beautiful places for recreation. Many land trust properties across the state are open to the public and are traversed by hundreds of miles of walking trails. The Land Trust Council works to advocate for strong land conservation policy at the statehouse and helps land trusts collaborate with each other.
The Green Infrastructure Coalition
This coalition is a group of not-for-profit organizations, architects, designers, builders, city planners, and state and local policymakers as partners, who work together to promote nature-based solutions for cleaning runoff pollution. Nature based solutions create pathways for rainwater, melting snow, and other run-off to avoid pavement and infiltrate into the earth.
Aquidneck Island
Needs You!
Now more than ever.
Please join in now to protect Aquidneck Island’s scenic beauty, open spaces, local farms, drinking water, and outdoor recreation. Become an Aquidneck Island Land Trust Member. Donate. Volunteer. Conserve your land. Attend events. There are many ways to get involved. Choose any and all that work for you, your family, or business!
