TNC Origins & History
The Nature Conservancy operates in approximately this many countries around the world.
What is over 80?
TNC staff use this platform to book travel.
What is Navan?
This Westchester County site was TNC’s first land preservation project.
What is Mianus River Gorge?
These types of gifts are critical in successfully funding the 2030 goals.
What are flexible gifts?
Established in 1885, this is the oldest state park in the United States and is shared with our neighbors in the North.
What is Niagara Falls State Park?
Before becoming The Nature Conservancy, this group voted in 1950 to change its name.
What is the Ecologists Union?
This is the deadline that expense reports must be submitted in Workday for the end of FY26.
What is today, June 24?
Note: Supervisors must approve by June 30.
This preserve is one of the largest of the 20 inland pine barrens in the world.
What is the Albany Pine Bush Preserve?
TNC's 2030 Goals framework tracks data from this year to 2030.
What is 2020?
This state park features 19th-century engineering, featuring stone bridges, tunnels, and winding staircases built into the gorge walls.
What is Watkins Glen State Park?
This U.S. president was in office when TNC became officially incorporated as a nonprofit organization.
Who is Harry S. Truman (1951)?
Teams and Zoom recordings automatically delete after this many days.
The New York BU is composed of these eight offices.
Albany
Center for Conservation (East Hampton)
Cold Spring Harbor (Uplands)
Keene Valley (Adirondacks)
Mashomack (Shelter Island)
New York City
Pulaski
Rochester
At 51%, this metric currently boasts the most progress toward our 2030 goals.
What is lakes & wetlands?
This park features dramatically carved 150-foot-tall shoreside cliffs formed from eroded drumlins.
What is Chimney Bluffs State Park?
This state housed TNC's first controlled burn (bonus points for the name of the natural area).
What is Minnesota's Helen Allison Savannah?
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What is multi-factor authentication?
Note: Starting July 20, The Nature Conservancy will switch from PingID to Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication (MFA). All staff must register new MFA options by July 20. Please reach out to Coleen Carney with questions.
This is our longest serving staff member that reports to the NY BU.
Who is Diana Albie (with continuous service since 2/22/1994!)?
This partnership aims to combat the biodiversity and climate crisis by delivering at lease 20 Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) initiatives.
What is Enduring Earth?
This three acre park is the smallest of the state parks, but hosts some of the largest crowds.
What is State Park at the Fair?
This private foundation's gift allowed for TNC to hire it's first paid president in 1966.
What is The Ford Foundation?
The Performance Partnership Process (PPP) comprises these four key elements.
1. Agile Goal Setting
2. Continuous Conversations
3. Emphasis on Managerial Excellence
4. Quality Feedback & Coaching
Pine Neck Nature Sanctuary is located in East Quogue, NY. Quogue is a shorthand of Quaquanantuck, a Shinnecock word meaning this.
What is "shaking marsh" or "trembling land?"
These are the seven 2030 metrics.
1. Climate Mitigation
2. Climate Adaptation
3. Oceans
4. Lands
5. River Systems
6.Lakes & Wetlands
7. People
The lakes at this park are meromictic and were formed by glaciers during the last ice age.
What is Green Lakes State Park?