That’s the kind of thing you need. And I, I see that changing a lot now, only because I keep, I keep saying it. You have a new generation of development. People that didn’t grow up developing relationships, they grew up learning how to go out and do grant writing… Read More
They would provide the funding to support to get our dolphin lift, which is almost half a million dollars to build a dolphin lift. Because we created a relationship and they knew if something was happening with the species, they were interested. We are gonna get a hold of ’em. Read More
Come in now they come in. And guess what?… Read More
What you can give is help support it. Funding wise, they don’t wanna do that. It’s, and they don’t wanna give their time. It’s inconvenient. So that scares me about where we’re going in the future as far as philanthropic giving and support of conservation down the road. It was… Read More
It’s no, I want you long term. And you know, we have donors that, I won’t say they don’t do it now, but it’s causing some problems. We had donors that supported a dolphin program. Well, you know what, as soon as we knew a dolphin was gonna give birth,… Read More
But if it’s conserving something in the field or it’s a program that requires managers and scientists, how can you give your time?… 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, ’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
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
Well, I, you know, I recycle. Read More
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. What do you do for it?… 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
What motivates do you think donors today compared to a decade ago?… 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
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