TREC Reports and Research
TREC applied research and reports are published with the support of Wilburforce Foundation.
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Conservation Fundraising at a Crossroads: Creating Healthy Fundraising Organizations (2005)
This report diagnoses five fundamental obstacles to healthy fundraising in environmental nonprofits. The report also addresses the high rates of turnover among fundraising professionals and the lack of knowledge transfer that results. The report presents clear recommendations for strengthening environmental nonprofit resource development, including: strengthening executive director leadership in fundraising, greater board participation in fundraising, and placing greater value on donors as organizational stakeholders.
A diagnoses of five fundamental obstacles to healthy fundraising and two staffing problems that result. Then a detailed look at key policies and practices groups can adopt to become healthy fundraising organizations.
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Training Resources for the Environmental Community (TREC). Our mission is to catalyze the habitat conservation and wilderness protection community in Western North America to promote sustainable environmental integrity and diversity. 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.