9 February 2021 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Before I start into today’s post, I want to remind you that I’m collecting five-year value information again, Time to Update the 5-Year Value Metric. If you could run a couple of reports on your database and send...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Happy New Year! Time to start again. January of another year. 2020 is over. (Thank Goodness!) Probably wasn’t what you thought it was going to be last year at this time. (There’s an understatement!) But now, it’s finally over. History. Fa, sol, la, ti,...
6 October 2020 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Q: What wine should I pair with dystopian outlook? A: All of them. There’s still a full calendar quarter to go, and I can’t wait for 2021. The future is as uncertain as it has ever been. And I’m talking...
7 July 2020 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Planning 101: Take a close and honest look at where you are right now. Visualize where you want to be. Brainstorm the various possible ways of getting there. Prioritize and choose a course of action. Suggest metrics and...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation You are on one side of a mountain range. And you need to get to the other side. You could go straight up. It might be technically difficult and very dangerous. You could go to the right for several months, parallel to...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Start again. January of another year. 2019 is over. History. Fa, sol, la, ti, Done. And January brings us ‘round again “to Do.” 2020 yawns before us. It could be anything. What will it be for you? January is a good time for reflection....
By David Allen, Development for Conservation A few years ago, I added my speculation to everyone else’s about how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) would affect charitable giving in the U.S. (See How will Tax Reform Affect Donor Giving in the Future?) We don’t need...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Start again. January of another year. 2018 is over. History. Fa, sol, la, ti, Done. And January brings us ‘round again “to Do.” 2019 yawns before us. It could be anything. What will it be for you? January is a good time for reflection....
Donors give money because of their belief in the mission and their belief that the organization can actually get it done. Efficiency rarely trumps actual results in donors’ decision-making. Projecting a successful organization will raise more money from more donors than projecting an efficient organization....
This is what I’ve been talking about as a missing step in Strategic Planning. Instead of including “resource development” in your exploration of various goals and strategies, and plugging in reasonable extrapolations of what you are already doing now – or worse, instead of paring...