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What participants say...

"Thanks so much for all your help with our planning retreat. I am really happy with it and know that our staff and board really enjoyed it and thought the results were helpful too!!"

What participants say...

"The pre-work was key, but the expedited path was fantastic. I'm not a fan of navel gazing but I am a fan of getting it together. This got us to getting it together."

"Helped reconfirm what our priorities are in a very big-picture sense. We successfully started to move away from creating goals/objectives for ourselves such as "expand collaboration" and started to do a better job of recognizing the difference between conservation goals and objectives, and tactics/tools we can use to achieve them."

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Planning and Evaluation Services

The driver behind TREC’s planning and evaluation services is a mindset of "continuous improvement."

Nonprofits have to shorten their planning cycles and ensure they are maintaining a high level of performance, in order to not only survive, but to thrive in these challenging times. TREC’s strategic planning services are poised to meet the needs of organizations having to rethink and refocus their strategic direction and goals.

Planning Consultation

TREC can help you define your organization’s vision, mission and goals, build your plans—strategic plans, fundraising plans, campaign plans, annual operating plans, and long-term plans—and assist with implementation, evaluation and modification of your plans going forward.

Evaluation Consultation

TREC provides expert assistance in program evaluation. We believe evaluation is a core management function for all nonprofits that can lead to important organizational learning and reflection. The end result: a stronger and healthier organization. By working together as partners, we will help you identify measures of success for your programs and campaigns, collect and analyze data to determine whether you’ve met your expectations, and then use what you have learned to improve your future work.

TREC is skilled in using the language and theory of program evaluation to meet the special needs of the environmental community.

We offer the following kinds of services:

  • Benchmarking
  • Interview and focus group facilitation
  • Online data collection
  • Outcomes evaluations
  • Salary surveys and analysis
  • Statistical analysis
  • Survey design, dissemination, and data collection

Research Services

TREC provides two kinds of research services:

  • Individualized research services to conservation groups.
    TREC can carry out customized surveys for groups that want to learn more about how their members and stakeholders see their programs.
  • Research that increases knowledge of the field.
    TREC’s research reports provide environmental nonprofits with critical and timely information to enhance their understanding of the sector and to increase their effectiveness.

For more information about planning and evaluation, contact: trec@trec.org