Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch
The Importance of Accurate Revenue Forecasting
TREC has prepared a new fundraising report for 2012, featuring tools to help accurately forectast annual revenue for your environmental nonprofit organization. Read this informative report, "Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch", by TREC Senior Associate, James (Kim) Gilliam.
Moving To Higher Ground: Fundraising Strategies in Challenging Times
Fundraising survey report
There is no doubt that the economic recession has made a
significant impact on many environmental nonprofits. In 2010, due to the
severe economic downturn, TREC conducted a follow-up
survey on fundraising just a year after the 2009 report, Weathering the Storm. "Moving To Higher Ground: Fundraising Strategies in Challenging Times" will illustrate key facets of fundraising challenges in our current times.
In addition, this report is broken down into seven "reportlets"
each of which focuses on tactical steps that every organization
can adopt in these challenging times. These reports are just as
relevant today as they were a year ago.
Fundraising Planning: Preparing for a Busy Year by Planning Ahead:
View the Fundraising Planning report
TREC's report on Major Gifts: Game On!- Increasing Your
Major Gifts and Legacy Gifts Now!- will help
your staff with straightforward advice that every organization,
larger or small, can immediately apply to raise more money from
these, your most important investors.
TREC's report on Boards: Now More Than Ever -The Imperative
of Strong Board Leadership in Tough Economic Times will help
your staff and board stay focused on the right priorities this and every
fall.
TREC's Fundraising Survey: Foundation Giving: Not a Sure
Thing, will give
you current information and ideas to deal with lagging
foundation giving.
Track TREC on our social networks
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Twitter is a rich source for short, must-have info on fundraising.
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Facebook offers practical advice, videos and the latest enviro fundraising
trends.
TREC
is a White Badge Partner in the Terrapass Carbon Balancing
Program
We carry out our mission through coaching, consulting and training services focused on leadership development, capacity-building and leveraging resources to organizations dedicated to habitat conservation and wilderness protection.
TREC's 2011 Salary and Benefits Survey- Available for a limited time through 2012.
The results of North America's most comprehensive salary and benefits survey for environmental nonprofit organizations are in! The survey covers over 10,000 environmental nonprofit employees throughout North America.
Almost 500 nonprofit environmental organizations—small and large—participated in our 2011 salary and benefits survey. With the volumes of rich data collected and analyzed from the survey, we have developed a number of resources, and all are now available to you. These resources and reports will provide you with the comprehensive information needed to make employment and personnel decisions during these difficult economic times. This report will be available through 2012.
The reports available on TREC’s shopping cart are:
• 2011 TREC Salary and Benefits Report (USA Edition)
• 2011 TREC Salary and Benefits Report (Canadian Edition)
• 2011 TREC Salary and Benefits Executive Summary Report (USA
Edition)
• 2011 TREC Salary and Benefits Executive Summary Report (Canadian
Edition)
Click here to review a detailed description of these resources and sample reports, or to puchase a report.
The TREC Guide to Interpreting and Using Your 2011 Salary and Benefits Survey Report: This handy free guide will give you excellent information on how to interpret the data from the 2011 Salary and Benefits Survey.
Click here for the TREC Guide to Interpreting the 2011 Salary and Benefits Survey Results
Key Indicators of Financial Strength and Stability
Assess your organization's financial health and get ready to thrive!
In order to protect the great wild places of the west, we need your organization to thrive. Some organizations are facing tough times brought on by the economic downturn; others have found new sources of income and are expanding. In order to keep your organization around for the long haul, weathering challenges and positioned to take advantage of opportunities, take the time now to address your capacity to thrive by carefully evaluating your organization’s financial strengths and weaknesses. In TREC's report Key Indicators of Financial Strength and Stability, we give you simple tools to assess your organization's Financial Health.
Donor-Centered Direct Mail
Direct mail really isn't about raising money
With millions of pieces of direct mail sent out every year, you job is to have your letter rise above all the rest. Take a look at this report by TREC Senior Associate Elizabeth Hospodarsky for important ways to make your appeals outshine the rest and bring better returns!
Fraud
Could your organization be a victim?
If your
reaction to a tutorial on preventing fraud is… "I don’t need to listen
to that because fraud couldn’t possibly happen at my organization."
Hold on. We prepared this session for you. Do yourself and your organization
a favor and spend seven minutes to listen this. In this recording we
lay out six simple steps you can take to prevent fraud from happening
at your organization. Watch this informative
video.
Fundraising for the Future Program
This distance-based learning program begins in February of each year
TREC’s Fundraising for Future is a distance-based learning program for development and management staff members who are new to fundraising. The series consists of eight monthly web-based training sessions (open to all Wilburforce grantees in the U.S. and Canada). Learn more.
Financial Management Program
Learning to adapt to new conditions
Because times are tight, it is even more critical that we carefully evaluate our organization’s financial strengths and weaknesses. We need to empower ourselves with the knowledge and skills we need to thrive. This program starts in 2010 (open to all Wilburforce grantees in the U.S. and Canada). Learn more.