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.

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TREC's 2011 Salary and Benefits Survey- Now Available!

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.

The reports available on TREC’s shopping cart are:
  • 2011 TREC Salary and Benefits Report (USA Edition)—240 pages of information on 51 environmental nonprofit jobs and over 80 benefits provided by 368 USA nonprofit environmental organizations.
  • 2011 TREC Salary and Benefits Report (Canadian Edition)—201 pages of information on 42 environmental nonprofit jobs and over 80 benefits provided by 115 Canadian nonprofit environmental organizations.
  • 2011 TREC Salary and Benefits Executive Summary Report (USA Edition)—64 pages of information providing summary data on all jobs, job families and benefits from the USA survey results.
  • 2011 TREC Salary and Benefits Executive Summary Report (Canadian Edition)—57 pages of information providing summary data on all jobs, job families and benefits; from the Canadian survey results.

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

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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. We need 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 new report Key Indicators of Financial Strength and Stability, we give you simple tools to assess your organization's Financial Health.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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