Membership

  31 January 2023   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Two questions came through my inbox this week. I answered both in due course, but I get asked these a lot, and it occurred to me that I should share them here as well.   The first question: We’re redoing...

  13 October 2020   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Rally week has now come and gone. It was my 15th Rally, not that it’s important, but the 2020 version was certainly different from the other 14! Nearly 4,000 people registered. Holy cow! The workshop I led had nearly...

  16 June 2020   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   This topic comes from a Reader Question, which in turn came from a discussion thread on the Alliance’s Learning Center:   The discussion regarded using a "membership" framework in direct mail, etc. I hesitate to get rid of it because...

5 May 2020   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   WARNING: This post contains geek material.   Last Fall (seems like another lifetime), I coordinated a direct mail collaboration between five conservation organizations – three land trusts and two river groups. The collaboration featured a collective rental of Nature Conservancy...