Where leadership, conservation, and culture converge
Conservancy Club members build personalized pathways to measurable progress toward a premium net-zero lifestyle, business, and environment. Through curated networking, leadership dialogue, and data-driven insights, they gain a strategic roadmap to advance their ambitions and help shape a more sustainable future.
Gain the knowledge, connections, and strategic guidance to live and lead with intention—advancing stewardship that benefits your life, and the world around you.
Member Benefits
Shared Stewardship & Collaborative Learning
We bring together leaders, innovators, and environmental thinkers who share a commitment to responsible stewardship. Through curated discussions, expert briefings, and collaborative workshops, we craft publications that explore strategies that advance environmental progress. Our consensus-based research is deal for those seeking collective momentum toward a sustainable future.
Personalized Strategy & Measurable Progress
For members seeking deeper guidance, Conservancy Club offers tailored advisory and mentorship experiences. Through personalized net-zero roadmaps, executive coaching, and ESG strategy development, members receive expert support aligned with their specific goals. This high-touch approach transforms environmental ambition into clear strategies and measurable outcomes.
Experiential Leadership & Environmental Connection
Environmental stewardship begins with understanding our relationship to the natural world. Conservancy Club hosts immersive experiences—including nature retreats, forest bathing walks, and leadership sessions—that reconnect members with the ecosystems they aim to protect. These experiences foster reflection, creativity, and the kind of leadership perspective needed to drive meaningful environmental change.
We collaborate with entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, cultural leaders, and environmental innovators committed to building a regenerative economy and more resilient future.
Conservancy Club CommunityMembership brings together individuals who recognize that environmental stewardship is not only a moral responsibility, but a defining opportunity for leadership in the 21st century. Through curated gatherings, thoughtful dialogue, and shared experiences, Conservancy Club connects members who are shaping policy, investment, and culture around the future of our planet.
Leverage Our Expertise
Turning a climate idea into an investable venture requires more than passion for sustainability. Investors evaluate hundreds of proposals each year, and the strongest pitches clearly connect a compelling climate solution with a credible business opportunity. The Conservancy Club Climate Venture Pitch Review is a focused advisory session designed to help founders and innovators sharpen their narrative, strengthen their market case, and present their venture with confidence.
In this 90-minute strategy session, receive expert feedback on your climate venture concept or existing pitch deck. The session focuses on the elements investors care about most: the scale of the climate problem you are solving, the clarity of your solution, your revenue model, and the size of the opportunity.
Participants leave with actionable recommendations and strategic insight to strengthen their pitch and better position their venture for funding conversations. Pitches will be evaluated across several key dimensions:
• Problem & Climate Impact – Is the climate challenge clearly defined and urgent?
• Market Opportunity – Does the business case demonstrate real commercial potential?
• Business Model – How your venture generates revenue and scales.
• Traction & Credibility – Early wins, partnerships, pilots, or proof points.
• Investor Narrative – Refining a concise, memorable story investors can quickly grasp.
This session is ideal for:
• Climate tech founders and entrepreneurs
• Sustainability innovators developing new ventures
• Professionals preparing accelerator or grant applications
• Early-stage startups seeking investment readiness feedback
Sessions are offered by appointment and scheduled upon booking.
Environmental progress is most effective when it is inclusive, community-centered, and grounded in equitable access to opportunity. Yet many organizations struggle to translate commitments to environmental justice into meaningful strategies, partnerships, and programs. The Conservancy Club Environmental Equity Strategy Advisory provides expert guidance to help organizations align their sustainability efforts with equity-driven environmental leadership.
This 90-minute strategic advisory session is designed for organizations seeking practical insight on integrating environmental equity into their initiatives, partnerships, and long-term strategy. The session helps organizations move beyond general commitments and develop concrete approaches to engaging communities, strengthening partnerships, and advancing inclusive conservation.
Participants receive focused guidance informed by the intersection of environmental policy, conservation leadership, and equity-centered program development. Whether your organization is launching a sustainability initiative, expanding a conservation program, or exploring new partnerships, this session provides strategic perspective on how to align environmental goals with community impact.
Ideal For
Foundations and nonprofit organizations
Sustainability and ESG teams
Environmental and conservation organizations
Corporate social impact and community relations teams
Public sector and policy initiatives
Sessions are offered by appointment for organizations seeking thoughtful, actionable guidance on advancing environmental equity in their work.
A forum for advancing ideas, partnerships, and investments that accelerate environmental innovation.
The Conservancy Club exists to convene leaders who understand that meaningful environmental progress requires collaboration across sectors.
Through private roundtables, research initiatives, and strategic partnerships, members engage in conversations that shape the future of environmental policy, conservation strategy, and regenerative economic development.
Together, Conservancy Club members support initiatives that expand access to nature, strengthen environmental stewardship, and foster a more inclusive conservation movement.
Meet the Founder & Managing Director
Patrice Davenport is a strategic marketing and publishing professional with a background in transportation policy, workforce development, and critical infrastructure issues. Her career has focused on advancing initiatives at the intersection of public policy, economic opportunity, and community impact—experience that informs the Conservancy Club’s approach to climate leadership and environmental stewardship.
For nearly a decade, Patrice served in senior leadership roles at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where she led strategic program development, built high-impact partnerships, and helped convene policymakers, industry leaders, and innovators to advance transportation research and policy. Her work included launching national convenings, developing membership and industry engagement programs, and strengthening collaborations with organizations committed to expanding opportunity within the transportation sector.
Patrice serves as Board Chair of the Langston Golf Course Conservancy, an organization dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the historic Langston Golf Course in Washington, DC while expanding public access to recreation, environmental education, and community-centered green space. She holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University and a BA in International Relations from University of Southern California.
Leadership Driving ImpactExceptional leaders shaping the future of environmental stewardship.
> 60%
U.S. population that may be exposed to PFAS “forever chemicals” in their drinking water.
50% +
U.S. rivers and streams are considered too polluted to meet basic water quality standards.
1 / 3
Nearly 120 million Americans—more than one in three—live in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution.
The Conservancy Club works with innovators, organizations, and leaders advancing environmental stewardship, sustainability, and climate solutions.
Conservancy Club membership is offered by application in order to preserve the quality of the community and the intimacy of our gatherings.