20 May 2024 By David Allen, Development for Conservation I got on a plane last week heading to Detroit from Madison. I was on my way to Connecticut to work with a land trust on a capital campaign. On my seat, a postcard was waiting for me with...
13 May 2024 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Statistically, more than half the people who have a last will and testament at all will make changes to it within five years of their death. Will the land trust get written in or written out? Will the...
29 April 2024 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Linsday Linsday comes off the preserve trail with her family. She surveys their flushed faces happy chatter from being outside these last few hours. The bald eagle siting was truly awesome and inspiring. The weather was perfect. And there...
15 April 2024 By David Allen, Development for Conservation If you have an organizational goal of reaching 1,000 donors but don’t know how to get there, this post is for you. Some of it you will already know. Some of it will be intuitively obvious. And some...
11 March 2025 By David Allen, Development for Conservation I have come to believe that $100 is pocket change, more or less. It’s a very common withdrawal amount from an ATM for those of us still using cash at all. $250 is not pocket change. It’s a threshold...
4 March 2025 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Before I start in on this week’s topic, I want to ask for your help in gathering data for a future blog post. I’ve heard back from 12 groups now, and I’d like to get to at least...
28 January 2025 By David Allen, Development for Conservation In May, Carolyn and Marty attended a Conservancy-hosted family-fun day on the Green Preserve with their daughter and her two children. They were responding to a Facebook ad and thought the outing was just the thing to help...
24 December 2024 “Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy - these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. The cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.” - Carl Safina Thank you for giving...
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...