This BLOG is intended to help conservation organizations and land trusts pursue excellence in all aspects of their conservation endeavors. I welcome your comments and feedback to these posts.
By David Allen, Development for Conservation I’m working with several groups right now who are interested in changing their Board’s culture. Specifically, they have Boards who have not been particularly involved in raising money and are interested in encouraging and supporting Board level efforts in this...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Hi! Yeah (Mark, Sue, James, Samantha) said you might be looking for a (treasurer, attorney, Millennial, Timbuktu resident) for your Board. I’m your man! Yeah (he’s, she’s) a great person. And s/he says you are a great organization, too. Of course I’ve...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation You know, right now, every member who will be renewing this year (assuming, of course, that you have members who renew every year). You know what they gave last year and when. And you know or could easily decide what...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Last week, I spent a perfectly wonderful two days at the Texas Land Trust Council’s Land Conservation Conference. Wonderful that is until I went outside the hotel expecting 80 degrees and sun and got 39 degrees and rain instead. I...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Three weeks ago, I asked you for data related to the value of your donors: Isolate the members and donors you have who made a first gift to your organization at some point – any point – during the calendar...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation I’m going to delay another week reporting back to you on the 5-year-value data I’m collecting in hopes of getting information back from a couple more land trusts who participated last year. The results are interesting thus far, but I...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Before I get into this week’s topic, let me quickly remind you that I am gathering 5-year-value data on new members again this year. I will report on what I learn in the next few weeks. If you are willing...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Last year, about this time, I posted about a metric I wanted to collect data on – the 5-year-value of new members. I was working on a Rally presentation on Metrics. Here’s what I asked for: First, isolate the members and...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation If you haven’t seen it yet, you should. Vu Le of Nonprofit AF is a gifted writer and humorist who blogs weekly about nonprofit work. Much of his material is related to Equity and Inclusion from the perspective of the non-white...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation So – are we headed for another recession? Plenty of folks think so. Mazarine Treyz of Wildwoman Fundraising points to the slowing housing markets on the east and west coasts, state government belt-tightening, and gun-shy foundation granting as signs that a downturn...