Donate & Make a Difference
Thank you for considering a donation to the Friends of Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges. Friends greatly appreciates donations from current members and from other nature enthusiasts. Your gift will help Friends build awareness of, and community support for,
the Lower Suwannee and Cedar Keys refuges.
the Lower Suwannee and Cedar Keys refuges.
Wish List
As a non-profit, Friends runs on the power of our members' commitment to the Refuges, on their annual and life membership dues, and on donations from both members and the community at large.
Wish-fulfillment partners are greatly appreciated!
Wish-fulfillment partners are greatly appreciated!
What is at the top of the Wish List now?
Demonstration by Unlimited States of Ability - $300 more
At the Annual Meeting on Saturday, February 24th, Friends will have a demonstration of gear to make the Refuge more accessible to visitors with limited mobility. Donors have already pledged $200.The cost to underwrite bringing the equipment and people to demonstrate it safely will be $500. Email friends@friendsofrefuges.org with any questions.
At the Annual Meeting on Saturday, February 24th, Friends will have a demonstration of gear to make the Refuge more accessible to visitors with limited mobility. Donors have already pledged $200.The cost to underwrite bringing the equipment and people to demonstrate it safely will be $500. Email friends@friendsofrefuges.org with any questions.
Vista Camp Pollinator Garden
Work Day Volunteers
We will need volunteers on several work days to lay out the plot according to our landscape volunteer's plans. The volunteers will spread composted dirt, prepare it for planting, and plant our native plants. Volunteers may be needed to go with the Garden Leaders to purchase and transport the plants. When it is planted, we expect to outline the garden with paving stones which will need to be placed. Volunteers might also build picnic tables, benches, and other amenities. If you would like to be contacted about these work days when they are scheduled, please email friends@friendsofrefuges.org to be on the contact list.
Work Day Volunteers
We will need volunteers on several work days to lay out the plot according to our landscape volunteer's plans. The volunteers will spread composted dirt, prepare it for planting, and plant our native plants. Volunteers may be needed to go with the Garden Leaders to purchase and transport the plants. When it is planted, we expect to outline the garden with paving stones which will need to be placed. Volunteers might also build picnic tables, benches, and other amenities. If you would like to be contacted about these work days when they are scheduled, please email friends@friendsofrefuges.org to be on the contact list.
Wishes Do Come True
Since January 2023, all these wishes have come true:
- A volunteer interested in membership data management. Hooray! We are meeting with her after the Annual Meeting to see if this project is really a fit for her.
- A new laptop computer, made possible by gifts from John and Donna Thalacker and Jay and Donna Bushnell.
- The Refuge found a way to provide the final funding needed for Friends' long-desired mobile community outreach center and Junior Ranger workbooks.
- Volunteers came forward for a hot, sweaty work day at the Cook's House to keep Friends from needing to hire a cleaning crew to prepare for the next phase of architecture work.
- Joyce and Ed DeHaan, bought Friends' former Chrome laptop that wasn't quite up to our current needs.
- Roger McDaniel and his son Robert found a way Friends could receive a year of our Adobe Design software that we need for producing brochures and interpretive panels.
- John Douglass fulfilled the wish for funding for Junior Ranger badges and in April for the funding needed to reorder the workbooks when the kids' interest far outran our expectations.
- Bob and Barbara Hudson fulfilled the wish for the funds needed to assure Friends could meet the required matching gift for the grant from the Florida Department of Historical Resources to start work on the Cook's House at Vista.
Mail Option
Mail your check to: Friends of Refuges PO Box 532 Cedar Key, FL 32625 |
OUR REGISTRATION NUMBER WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA IS CH52376. A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE. |