Prairie State Conservation Coalition is grateful to the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation for awarding a $36,000 grant for our project “Growing Leadership, Diversifying Membership, and Completing the Strategic Plan.”
The project will focus on enhancing the membership experience for our members, creating a commercial donor database, and expanding our membership beyond the land trust community. The project will put particular emphasis on a new strategic plan to incorporate our intentions regarding justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in our conservation community led by our newly-hired executive director to take us into the future.
Our new executive director will be responsible for leading us in five key areas:
- Expand the PSCC membership that includes all land conservation organizations
- Create opportunities for the next generation of conservation professionals
- Diversify future PSCC funding sources to include more individual donors, local family foundations, corporate and private businesses, and new member organizations
- Educate the public, private landowners, and elected officials of the benefits to people and nature by permanent land preservation and conservation practices
- Be the leader and leading voice for land conservation in Illinois
We are excited with the opportunity to move forward in all these areas as we venture into a promising and fruitful future.
