Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World by Birchard
Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World by Birchard

Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World

With more than $3.7 billion in assets and annual revenue of $800 million, the Nature Conservancy has...
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Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World by Birchard

Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World

$86.11
Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World by Birchard

Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World

$86.11
Author: Birchard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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With more than $3.7 billion in assets and annual revenue of $800 million, the Nature Conservancy has generated staggering growth that would be the envy of any business.

Incorporated in 1951 by a small circle of concerned ecologists, the Conservancy has grown financially into the world's largest environmental organization. It has one million members--up from 500,000 in 1990--and 3,500 employees operating in 50 states and 28 countries across the world.

Nature's Keepers offers readers an inspirational leadership tale and management chronicle, as it goes behind the scenes and details the inner workings of the Nature Conservancy. Highlighting the efforts of nine extraordinary leaders, Nature's Keepers examines the organization's culture and management, strategy and decisions, and courageous and ingenious individuals who have dedicated their lives to conservation.

Author Bill Birchard reveals how the Conservancy's sometimes controversial business practices--entrepreneurial approaches to preserving ecosystems while meeting human needs--have earned the praise of management gurus such as Peter Drucker. The Conservancy's way of operating, though not free of failings, is both widely emulated in the nonprofit community and greatly respected by business scholars and CEOs nationwide.

Author: Birchard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 03/04/2005
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.34w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780787971588


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2005 pg. 1249

About the Author

THE AUTHOR

Bill Birchard is a freelance journalist who has been writing about management and the environment for more than twenty-five years. His work has appeared in Chief Executive, CFO, Fast Company, Strategy + Business, and Tomorrow magazines. He has also written for the Appalachian Trail Conference, the Montana Department of State Lands, and the U.S. Forest Service. He is the coauthor of two previous books, Counting What Counts and The One-Minute Meditator. On the web, see www.natureskeepers.net.

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