John Regan Associates - External funding for zoos, botanical gardens & aquaria

I remember this expression from an American fundraising authority in my first years obsessing on the subject.
The idea was very simple: ‘the development process’ is all about  gradually turning outsiders into insiders, a process of inviting affluent, influential, talented and/ or well connected individuals to consider our organisation and our cause to be their own, [...]

This is to do with a levy the Government charges on companies who bury waste in landfill sites. This money is accumulated by the landfill operator and at the end of the year goes to the Treasury, unless…  the landfill operator chooses to donate  some of this to an environmental project.

A zoo or similar organisation has [...]

The Structural and Cohesion Funds, over one third of the European Union budget, are used by the EU for social and economic restructuring across the EU, on the basis that some areas have special economic and social difficulties. They also serve the objective of generally bringing EU states together, especially in terms of transport and infrastructure
They can [...]