Improving your Partnerships with US Indigenous Communities
This webinar will address “better” practices on how to talk with Indigenous communities about conservation and land protection as allies and partners. “Better” practices include addressing the failures of the past, challenges of the present, and future considerations of land management, traditional knowledge, and meaningful relationships.
Prepare for Uncertain Times: Stress Test Your Organization
Many economists say that a recession is looming–and that we are starting to see early signs of a downward turn. The time to get prepared is before the worst of it hits. In this session, we’ll talk about stress-testing your financial position. We’ll show you how to do financial scenario planning so you can create your own contingency plan. And because we are facing more than just financial uncertainty, we’ll walk through stress-testing your staffing, board, program, and more.
Ellie Stanley
Director of Organizational Development & Senior Consultant Ellie Stanley (she/her) has been part of TREC since 2009 and serves as Director of Organizational Development and a Senior Consultant. Over the…
The Hidden Gold of Monthly Giving
Growing a monthly giving program is one of the most valuable ways your organization can invest its precious fundraising resources. During this webinar, we’ll talk about how and why to sustain a laser focus on monthly giving, stewarding these special donors, and how to grow your major gifts program with monthly giving.
Action-Inspiring Storytelling: The Marshall Ganz Public Narrative Model
In a world full of overflowing inboxes and overwhelmed minds, telling stories that motivate peoples’ heads, hearts, and hands is more important than ever. Hone your storytelling skills with TREC Associate Kristi Chester Vance and Harvard University teaching fellow Dušan Stojičić, who will train participants in the Public Narrative storytelling model created by Marshall Ganz, legendary organizer and Harvard Kennedy School senior lecturer.
Marrying Financial Planning to Strategic Planning
This tutorial reviews the key components of linking strategic planning to financial planning. We’ll examine approaches to strategic planning from Good Enough to The Works; and also how to budget for revenue gaps and surpluses, determine where to put your fundraising focus, and determine the sustainability of each of your programs.
Board Term Limits
Regularly bringing in new board members helps keep away stagnation and provides the board opportunities for renewal. This resource reviews the importance of Board Term Limits and discusses the advantages and concerns to take into consideration for your Board.
Budgeting as a Strategic Tool
Resources are tight, and conservation groups need a robust budget tool designed to help them plan for the year ahead. TREC’s budget template is an easy-to-use budgeting tool that makes developing a budget more accurate while using far less staff time to prepare it.
Allocating Shared Operating Expenses
Shared Allocation is the process of spreading your shared expenses such as rent and utilities across your programs and other cost centers. By using shared allocation, each program shows its full costs. This toolkit shows you why this is important and how to do it.
Executive Director Hiring Checklist
We’ve created these overview checklists to support board members and hiring committees in the hiring process. We encourage you to use these in conjunction with TREC’s Transitions in Leadership toolkit.