Your House Can Save Land

As potentially one of your largest financial assets, your house can provide a significant, extraordinary contribution to save land in the Genesee Valley.

During your lifetime, a house may grow in value, but often it remains most important as a place to live regardless of its financial worth.

After your lifetime, your house’s value can provide a significant one-time investment in local land conservation. When received by Genesee Valley Conservancy, your house will be sold to a new family that will use and enjoy the house, as you did. The income realized from the sale will then help fund our latest conservation projects.

With the cost of permanently protecting land at $3,000 an acre, a house would provide significant funding for the Conservancy to complete a conservation project.

As we increase the pace of our local conservation work to protect drinking water, important habitat, and working farmland, we will rely more on significant gifts like houses to fund the increasing cost of protecting the important lands of the Genesee Valley.