I am very pleased that our work on behalf of the EU Interest Group of EAZA zoos (see page http://zoofunding.wordpress.com/contact-us/what-is-the-eu-interest-group/) has resulted in new significant references to the environmental capacity of zoos being inserted into the official EU report on the Statement on Biodiversity ( excuse all the euro jargon!)
The text recognises our work in ‘in [...]
I suppose this kind of follows on from the post on zoos and children’s literature ( http://zoofunding.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/zoos-and-childrens-literature/)
I guess it has been a long time since any other zoo animal has become as famous as Knut (maybe Goldie the escaped eagle at London in the 70’s…?). On the one hand, a celebrity animal must boost a [...]
A challenge gift is a fundraising technque widely used in the USA, but not so much in Europe. It is normally deployed within a given campaign, appeal or other distinct fundraising drive.
One major donor is asked to publicly make a large firm pledge towards your total target, which can only be redeemed if a matching amount emerges [...]
It is too tempting for a zoo organisation, perhaps under fresh management or other new impetus, to move towards a full, long term masterplan without any thought at all as to where major external funding might come from. Only later to start looking around for major funding partners and trying to shoehorn the site’s development into programmes [...]
books-on-zoos.doc
Here is such a list (rather thrown together due to time pressure). Some of these are guide books to zoos around the world, some look at the history of the zoo world, some at our general role in society. Certain of these latter of course , especially published a while back, take an equivocal lstance [...]
You will find this at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/funding/intro_en.htm
Those interested may find this useful at least to give a feel for ‘the rich and complex eco-system’ that is EU funding. Quite a bit of this is out of date and ‘environmental’ is defined pretty widely.
If you have a query, it may be easiest to add a comment below, and [...]
This provides a great insight into the trials and tribulations of drawing down millions of pounds to fund a visionary project. Tim reveals a secret public funding technique – lying!
There is much to be mined from this experience in terms of the knife edge priocess of putting and keeping together a major funding package, as well as [...]
This provides a great insight into the trials and tribulations of drawing down millions of pounds to fund a visionary project. Tim reveals a secret public funding technique – lying!
There is much to be mined from this experience in terms of the knife edge priocess of putting and keeping together a major funding package, as well as [...]
I know this blog is intended to be of at least European relevance rather than just UK, but naturally my business networking has been largely confined to the UK. Anyhow, there are close equivalents to the CBI in every European country (Confidustria in Italy, Bund der Deutschen Industrie – BDI in Germany, MEDEF in France, etc) [...]
I know this blog is intended to be of at least European relevance rather than just UK, but naturally my business networking has been largely confined to the UK. Anyhow, there are close equivalents to the CBI in every European country (Confidustria in Italy, Bund der Deutschen Industrie – BDI in Germany, MEDEF in France, etc) [...]
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