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The Nature Conservancy

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Used be a far better place to work - Anonymous employee The Nature Conservancy Employee Review

3.0
Jun 10, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work being done on the ground in the field Good pay, benefits and opportunity for professional staff Greater emphasis on working with partners across the organization (as opposed to making "partners" do what TNC desires) Very smart people, mostly working effectively together

Cons

Heavy internal and external rhetoric/spin on global strategy through policy and partnerships (sexy) with minimal correlation to ROI relative to less ambitious (less sexy) but more tried and true investments and their relative and more readily measurable returns Generating money for conservation strategies broadly and mistakenly used as a surrogate for actual conservation heavily celebrated and crowed as wins

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