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.
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...
29 October 2024 By David Allen, Development for Conservation You’ve been working on getting your fundraising gala organized for what – like nine months now? And it’s finally over. You can relax now, right? Unfortunately, not so fast. There’s still work to do, and you’ll do it if...
22 October 2024 By David Allen, Development for Conservation If we could change our collective thinking in just one way, we would all raise more money – and not by just a little bit. That shift in thinking goes like this: Donors give because they want to. It sounds simple...
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...
10 September 2024 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Last week, I reported on a webinar I attended from NextAfter, a digital marketing firm that actively conducts market research related to online giving and generosity. The post ran long, and I let it go without really exploring...