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Giving Acres launches as a Kansas farmland giving program through the Greater Salina Community Foundation

A new farmland giving program called Giving Acres has been launched by the Greater Salina Community Foundation to help farmers, ranchers, and agricultural landowners preserve their legacy through charitable gifts of farmland. The program aims to keep productive agriculture locally in place while creating permanent charitable resources for rural Kansas communities.

Kansas farmland landscape showing stewardship and community giving, with fields, a barn, and farm tools in the foreground.

Giving Acres allows landowners to donate farmland during their lifetime or through an estate plan. Once donated, income generated by the property is directed to a permanent charitable fund at the donor’s local community foundation, supporting the causes and charitable priorities the donor chooses. When practical and consistent with the donor’s wishes, the land is intended to continue being farmed by local producers and managed by experienced local farm management companies.

The program is operated as Giving Acres, LLC, governed by a regional board of farmers and agricultural professionals from north central and western Kansas. The Greater Salina Community Foundation (a 501(c)(3) public charity) and its regional affiliates accept and retain farmland to establish permanent charitable funds across rural Kansas.

To learn more or schedule a confidential conversation, visit www.GivingAcres.org or contact Post Rock Community Foundation at (785) 384-9444. Post Rock Community Foundation serves communities of Lincoln County and those served by USD 298 and USD 299.