Fundraising Planning

18 April 2023   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   A few years ago, a Board member complained to me that the land trust wasn’t growing. “We have the same 250 donors we had ten years ago,” he said. I thought that was unlikely. This Board member was concerned about...

  24 January 2023   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   There’s a fun story about three bricklayers who are asked what they are doing. (You've probably heard it.) The first describes laying each brick on top of the others so that the lines are straight in every direction....

  24 May 2022   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Last week, I promised you a blog about strategies for recruiting new donors. I’m still going to post that, but I’m putting it off a week. Because the stock market is down 20%. And I’m sensing a level of concern...