Building and Managing Conservation Budgets

A conservation budget is a promise to a funder and a plan for a field team, and the two rarely stay aligned once the work begins. A conservation budget is a promise to a funder and a plan for a field team, and the two rarely stay aligned once the work begins. This course teaches you to build activity-based budgets that stay defensible when costs move, partners change and the multi-year picture shifts.

You build a line-item budget grounded in activity-based costing. You allocate costs with a rationale your partners can see, then plan for risk before it lands. The course closes with a capstone: a complete budget for a sample conservation project you can adapt to your own.

Part of the Designing and Managing Conservation Projects Certificate →