WCN's services help a small entrepreneur make a significant impact

Wildlife Conservation Network was created to help overcome the start-up challenges individual conservation entrepreneurs face — including incorporating as a nonprofit, writing grant proposals, creating marketing materials, raising funds and promoting the cause, maintaining a donor database, and fulfilling all the associated accounting and reporting requirements. This expert assistance allows the conservationist to concentrate their efforts on fieldwork, not deskwork.

WCN support provides conservation entrepreneurs with:

Fundraising Support

WCN uses a fundraising model based on the relationships that have evolved among high-tech entrepreneurs, investors and venture capital (VC) firms. We act as a very efficient VC -- identifying high-potential conservation entrepreneurs and projects, ensuring due diligence is completed up-front, providing ongoing advisory services, and forging alliances between donor-"investors" and conservation entrepreneurs. WCN is the first to use this approach to fund and support worldwide conservation efforts.

Shared Back-office Support Services

Wildlife Conservation Network specialist teams provide the conservation entrepreneur with an expert administrative and professional "back office." By sharing expertise and costs across these projects, WCN makes these services more cost effective for an independent entrepreneur. WCN services include writing grant proposals, supporting accounting and reporting needs, maintaining a donor database, creating marketing materials, building and maintaining a website, developing public relations programs, and implementing an information technology strategy.

Expert Networks

In addition to administrative tasks, independent conservationists face a number of challenges in the field. These include obtaining national endorsement, operational logistics, developing integrated conservation plans, and developing and implementing research plans. Entrepreneurs in the WCN network have access to the best scientists and conservationists throughout the world to assist them in these tasks.

Annual Wildlife Conservation Expo

WCN's annual Wildlife Conservation Expo builds public awareness of the work of these enterprising conservationists. Supporters can meet leading conservationists, including the WCN Partners, and experience firsthand the depth of dedication and energy the entrepreneurs bring to their work. The Expo also provides the WCN Partners with an invaluable opportunity to learn and exchange ideas with each other, thus accelerating learning and development across the entrepreneur group.