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By David Allen, Development for Conservation I’m going to delay another week reporting back to you on the 5-year-value data I’m collecting in hopes of getting information back from a couple more land trusts who participated last year. The results are interesting thus far, but I...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Before I get into this week’s topic, let me quickly remind you that I am gathering 5-year-value data on new members again this year. I will report on what I learn in the next few weeks. If you are willing...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Last year, about this time, I posted about a metric I wanted to collect data on – the 5-year-value of new members. I was working on a Rally presentation on Metrics. Here’s what I asked for: First, isolate the members and...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation If you haven’t seen it yet, you should. Vu Le of Nonprofit AF is a gifted writer and humorist who blogs weekly about nonprofit work. Much of his material is related to Equity and Inclusion from the perspective of the non-white...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation So – are we headed for another recession? Plenty of folks think so. Mazarine Treyz of Wildwoman Fundraising points to the slowing housing markets on the East and West Coasts, state government belt-tightening, and gun-shy foundation granting as signs that a downturn...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation As I teased last week, one of my three checklist items each year in January is to get my Board Campaign organized. The link is a downloadable paper about how to organize a Board Campaign mechanically. (I won’t go into...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Start again. January of another year. 2018 is over. History. Fa, sol, la, ti, Done. And January brings us ‘round again “to Do.” 2019 yawns before us. It could be anything. What will it be for you? January is a good time for reflection....
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. - Theodore Roosevelt I sincerely hope that this New Year’s message finds you warm and comfortable, surrounded by family and good...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Yesterday was December 17th. I marked the day, because there are exactly 14 days left in the charitable giving year. So this post will serve as a reminder that these two weeks are NOT weeks you should be taking off. Just as...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation As you probably know, Alaska residents receive a check in the mail from the State of Alaska, representing a distribution of oil royalties earned during the year. It’s called the Permanent Fund Dividend and has ranged from $300 to more...