Bold Bison provides creative communications solutions, engaging facilitation services and inspiring workshops and trainings for the conservation movement, the education sector and the arts.

Conservation communications needs to be bolder. We bring a down-to-earth, common sense approach to communications strategies and tools from digital and print to content creation and media relations. We also provide hands-on workshops and skill-building training sessions, and we facilitate retreats, coalitions and networks.

Ecopixel creates and sustains websites for conservation, collaboration, and community. Join other land trusts who use our platform, and let us help you with outreach, events, and online fundraising. We'll collaborate with you on a compelling design that meets today's mobile-friendly responsive design and accessibility standards. Easily update all of your content using the open-source, nonprofit-run TYPO3 CMS (content management system). We provide a complete solution that includes reliable, carbon-offset hosting as well as personal support and ongoing training. While Ecopixel serves a variety of nonprofits, small municipalities, and socially responsible businesses, it's with land trusts that we have the deepest experience. We know that web projects can seem complex. We're here to help! Contact us for your website needs.

Effect Size Consulting provides nonprofits with strategic leadership, coaching and support in three main fundraising and organizational growth focus areas: Major Gifts & Campaign Fundraising Strategy, Data-Driven Fundraising, and High-Performance Team Development. Principal, Anthony Rupard has over fifteen years of experience leading progressive fund development teams, most recently as the Development Director for the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy’s $71.4M comprehensive Campaign for Generations which exceeded $80M in campaign support.

Our team can analyze your existing base of support and help you determine the potential for increased annual giving and major gift support and identify and develop planned-giving program opportunities. We can create a plan that positions the organization to increase annual support, assess campaign feasibility and comprehensively manage your campaign. We also conduct capacity audits, invest in team culture through training and create performance metrics to attract and retain talented fundraisers.

The Effect Size Consulting team is experienced with raising money for complex conservation land transactions including conservation lending and has a reputation for teaching staff, board and other key volunteers how to build authentic and trusting relationships that lead to transformational gifts.

Sarah is skilled at managing organizational change, developing and mentoring people and managing complex projects. She has worked in the not-for-profit, research, technology and education fields and has over twenty years of experience, most recently in the land trust community. Sarah served in several leadership roles at the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, including Director of Human Resources for five years and the Director of Stewardship for three years prior. She was instrumental in supporting the growth of the organization with attention to culture, development of staff and volunteers and monitoring benchmarks and outcomes. Sarah has extensive experience in the creation, implementation, and review of policies and procedures, and successfully led the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy through the accreditation process in 2009 and again in 2014. Today, Sarah supports land trusts as they plan and prepare for accreditation. She provides guidance and training to develop people and systems to meet the goals of the organization.

Brenda Schick, principal of Singing Stream Conservation Consultants, has over 20 years of experience in land conservation across the United States. Singing Stream's services include assessing and accessing public and private funding, completion of due diligence (appraisals, surveys, etc), strategic brainstorming and mentoring in project design and much more.  Brenda was the Vice President for land protection at the Trust for Public Land and she is eager to share her expertise to help you achieve your mission.

After 19 years as a conservation professional, I decided to launch Strong Outcomes to use what I learned to help environmental agencies and organizations be more successful.

In my career, I have helped dozens of communities and organizations build capacity to conserve natural resources and authored a book on natural resource-based land use planning. I developed conservation plans, organized workshops and events, developed community engagement strategies, and implemented practical measures of success.

I have a BS in Biology and an MS in Biodiversity Conservation and Policy from the University at Albany, and a Certificate in Change Leadership from Cornell University. I am a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program and have 13 years of nonprofit board experience.

TK.designlab, LLC is an ecological design and planning studio that employs innovative and experimental design solutions to address issues related to regenerative development, climate resilience and environmental integrity for landscapes and communities. We work directly with communities, non-profits, companies and individuals to design and plan these responsive landscapes. We are a lean, visionary, mobile and technologically inclined studio. We are purpose-driven and process-oriented. And we believe that people and place matter.