Well, ’cause I don’t know where it’s gonna go. Well, but if it’s a conservation organization, if a proof of record, well, you know, it, it, it’s a, it’s a problem. It’s a problem for me. It, if I have to get involved, if someone’s gonna get me involved and… Read More
They’re all like, I need right now. I want it right now. Well, that doesn’t happen in conservation, or I’m not gonna give you money. I’ll give you my time, but don’t ask me for too much time. Well, your time’s important. Read More
Well, no, I, I don’t give, I, I won’t give them money. Why?… Read More
Do you give to conservation?… Read More
Well, you know, recycling does that well, no, it doesn’t. Read More
Okay, but what do you do to help protect species?… Read More
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. What do you do for it?… Read More
Well, I, you know, I recycle. Read More
So she came out and we, we sat, I sat down with her and we came up with a list of questions and she went out in Chicago area at DePaul University and, and Columbia University and met with all the, you know, everyone she could and said, you know,… Read More
When she was getting her masters, she wanted to do a, a, a paper on millennials and and conservation of millennials and did they really support conservation?… Read More
Oh, that’s a long answer. I think in many cases it hadn’t changed. If you have the development department that you should have, and by that I mean we, you know, the unique thing about Brookfield and, and Lincoln Park too, but Brookfield, it had a history of donors that… Read More
You know, and that’s what drove my looking at it. It was like, I support SSP programs and a ZA and CAA, but I’m not gonna use their list of programs as my menu. I’m gonna list what I think we have the talent to care for. And if not,… Read More
What motivates do you think donors today compared to a decade ago?… Read More
Well, I, I go back to, I wanted to diversify the collection. I felt that, you know, as I mentioned, Tropic world had become empty. It was a big cavernous, concrete, empty place. And I’d walked through it, quite frankly, I got bored. And so I went back to the… Read More
I said, I want you to bring influx of birds. And we added probably, I think when I left, he had added already about 320 specimens to all three sections of, and we had all kinds of activities going on again. So I look at making decisions on showing as… Read More
What kind of factors drove those decisions?… Read More
Maybe that should tell you something about where you’re at. You know, the vast majority, if you’re honest with them and they trust you, they’re not gonna listen to your garbage that you’re spewing over here. And I, I think that made a big difference. And you had to make… Read More
How many millions of people come through our gates every year that support us?… Read More
Here’s where you can pick it because we own the property and you can’t go here, but you can go here. And, you know, you would think, oh, hundreds of people are gonna show up. Well, maybe 12 people would show up. And we would go out and give them… Read More
Our animals have better water quality, have better healthcare. They’re not dodging boats, they’re not being polluted by, you know, fertilizers and things coming into the bay off of the, it’s, it’s a tough life out there. And we provide a safe haven and yeah, we breed and yeah, we’ve… Read More