Conservation Changing Lives: Empowering You
“Judy’s coaching has transformed how I work. She empowered me to get out of my own head and into the hearts of donors with strategy, science, and empathy”
Emy Royce, Communications Director
Bitter Root Land Trust
Areas of focus
- Inclusive conservation, Ambassador Lands
- Communications to inspire and connect
- Community-based fundraising
- Programs that change lives and inspire
- Climate change
- Executive coaching
- Strategic planning
Interested in climate change, conservation, and what you can do?
My twice-monthly e-News provides articles, commentary, and research with tips on communication, impact, and what land trusts and conservation groups are doing to slow down climate change.
Recent Climate Change & Conservation e-News stories
LAND TRUSTS TAKING ACTION
It’s time for businesses to aim higher. Here’s one way to do it—natural climate solutions
The Nature Conservancy
August 2020
This is the sort of article you can share with community members, businesses, and your local land trust. Granted, with Covid-19, businesses are often facing lower cash-flow. But that's not to say you can't start planting the seeds of what could be possible once we get through the worst of this pandemic.
Corporations are (rightly) first focused on reducing their emissions. That’s absolutely where they need to start, and it should be their highest climate-related priority...
CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSERVATION
Understanding rural attitudes toward the environment and conservation in America
July 2020
What might be transferable to your community, or, as a land trust, to your constituency?
A recent study from Duke Nicolas Research Institution of Environmental Policy Solutions found that "Broadly, our study suggests that the urban/rural divide on the environment is not a function of how much rural voters care about the environment. Nor is it a function of how knowledgeable they are—rural voters appear relatively sophisticated about environmental issues...
[T]here are opportunities to engage rural voters on climate change and environmental policies generally."
NOTE: There are additional reports and a webinar that I will share next month.
"Judy’s climate e-News provides land trusts help and hope in dealing with climate change."
Carol Abrahamzon, Executive Director
Mississippi Valley Conservancy
Are you looking for inspiration? Check out this community conservation series featuring land trusts from across the country, developed in partnership with the Land Trust Alliance.
Community Consultants snapshot
Judy Anderson of Community Consultants has worked in the land trust sector for over 25 years. Judy currently assists nonprofit organizations on practical strategic conservation initiatives, incorporating local communities, climate change, governance, communications, and community-based fundraising strategies.
judy@community-consultants.com
518-758-7226
"Speed coaching [short-term coaching] with Judy was incredibly productive for our land trust. She guided us to adjust our approach to communications and begin reworking our materials, with great results."
Janet Milkman, Executive Director
Barnstable Land Trust