I heartily agree with this. I have led a few on, maybe up to a dozen now. I have a 'pretty good' retention rate because I sell to their particular use case, stay close and upvote often/always.

Thanks for sharing your journey, I look forward to seeing how it goes with the organization(s)! Conservation is one of the niches here on steem, in my mind, though there is a bit of a splintering of the topic like elsewhere on the internet, the come together better here than any place else I have seen.

Cheers!