Wildlife Conservation Network, Inc.

WCN's mission is to protect endangered wildlife by supporting conservationists who ensure wildlife and people coexist and thrive.

We work to achieve this mission by raising and deploying funds to support a wide range of field-based conservation organizations, invest in the best projects to save threatened species, and help local conservationists grow and thrive through scholarships and grants.

Wildlife conservationists have the power to ensure a future for wildlife by developing new solutions and working closely with communities to save endangered animals. In order to succeed, these wildlife champions need funding to run their programs and assistance to build their organizations and ensure their efforts are sustainable over time. WCN partners with leading independent wildlife conservationists, providing them with an array of services and training in areas such as marketing, accounting, and strategic planning. WCN also creates connections to donors who can make these conservationists' work possible.

SUPPORTING A NETWORK OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATIONISTS
We find the best entrepreneurial organizations and invite them to receive in-depth, ongoing support by joining our Network of Conservation Partners. We provide our Partners with the financial resources, tools, and services they need to effectively protect wildlife. As all organizations in our Network go through a rigorous vetting process, donors can invest in them with confidence.

PROTECTING SPECIES ACROSS THEIR ENTIRE HABITAT
Our Wildlife Funds offer flexible grants to projects in order to protect a threatened species across its entire habitat. The Wildlife Funds invest in effective projects from a wide range of organizations, kickstarting new approaches and bolstering tried and true conservation efforts. Each fund amplifies donor support by combining contributions, allowing for the biggest impact possible.

WCN plans to continue growing our Partner Network and Wildlife Funds to incorporate more species and more geographies, thus broadening our reach and increasing our impact.

INVESTING IN LOCAL CONSERVATIONISTS
WCN helps local conservationists grow and thrive so that they have the support they need to protect wildlife. We invest in these brave women and men to strengthen their skills, build their organizations, and advance their careers in conservation. Through scholarships and grants, we provide support to the local people who are shaping conservation in their home countries, ensuring we have a greater and more sustainable impact for wildlife.

We have a network of partners that are able to learn best practices in wildlife conservation from each other.
We have a diversity of professional background amongst our staff to enable us to properly assess and address our partners' organizational and development needs: financial, scientific field expertise, marketing, events, donor development, IT.
We have brand recognition that enables us to organize the largest wildlife conservation public event in the US - the Wildlife Conservation Expo.
We have a network of 100+ volunteers.
We provide practical skills training to dozens of field conservationists, empowering them to expand and sustain over time the impacts of their programs to protect the species and habitat on which they focus. Training topics include communication, leadership training, strategic planning, fundraising training, and knowledge sharing across participants.

So far we have raised over $200 million to support wildlife conservation on the ground.
We've provided graduate scholarships to over 150 scholars around the world.
We provide organizational development support to 20 partners.
We have organized over 15 in-person Wildlife Conservation Expos in three different cities in the US plus 4 virtual Expos.
Our Wildlife Funds have supported 645 projects in 48 countries around the world and granted over $60 million to protect elephants, lions, pangolins, and rhinos across their range.
We are developing a tool to help measure the organizational performance of our partners.
The diversity of species and geographies that we support has broadened to North America and we will continue to take on more partners around the world.