Author: David Allen

  26 November 2024   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   “I don’t want to ask my friends for money because then they will come to me asking for money for their causes.”   This is a very common fear many volunteers and Board directors experience related to raising money. It’s...

  19 November 2024   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Last week on Friday, I participated in part two of a medical study designed to test the use of several different kinds of ultrasound to image blood vessels in the neck (carotid artery). The researchers were looking for...

  12 November 2024   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   If you send a follow-up letter to the people not responding to the appeal, you might get closer to your goal. We can’t do that. Oh? Why? Too expensive. Can’t afford it. It’s not in the budget. [Quizzical Huh? Face]   When was the...

  15 October 2024   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Bob, why don’t you ask for money in your letters? It’s more efficient to ask everyone for the same amount. Or not to really ask at all, leaving the amount given entirely up to the donor to determine. Even though...

  8 October 2024   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Whether we understand and acknowledge it or not, we all have an interesting relationship with neuro-psychology – and especially neurolinguistics, and neurolinguistic programming. These terms describe the possibility that human beings react to certain decision-making triggers that can...

  1 October 2024   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Think about this: You are trying to set up a meeting with a donor you’ve never met. Or you are trying to reconnect with someone whom you met at an event where they expressed interest in seeing one of...

  24 September 2024   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Note: It's Rally Week - [Will I see you in Providence?] - and I am reposting this from March of 2022.     If there is one word in land trust language that would benefit the most from tighter definition, it’s...

  17 September 2024   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   It’s the middle of September and you have a lot riding on the next few months. Seventy percent of the money given away every year is given between October and January. And half of YOUR money will come...