By David Allen, Development for Conservation I’m working with several groups right now who are interested in changing their Board’s culture. Specifically, they have Boards who have not been particularly involved in raising money and are interested in encouraging and supporting Board level efforts in this...
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 I spent a lovely week last week in McAllen, Texas, at the Summit conference for Nature Center Administrators. I learned a lot and met some terrific folks involved in nature education all over the country. Among the many stories I heard,...
by David Allen, Development for Conservation "The most effective way to raise money from Millennials may be to wait until they’re in their 40's and 50's." So quipped blogger Jeff Brooks several years ago. His point was that the quest to attract younger people as donors and...
My accounting friend Dana says that every Board director should know how much money the organization has that is unrestricted – that it can spend on operations – and exactly how each restricted gift was spent. That would be an improvement for most land trusts...
When you have donor meetings set up, when you will be at an event or field trip where one or several top donors will be present, take a moment to invite a Board member to come along. I would not go so far as to...