Your donation to the South Wake Conservationists will enable our local programs in support of wildlife and habitat. Thanks for helping preserve and restore our fragile ecosystem!
Here are a few of the many ways your donation will make an impact:
- General Fund: Provides for the the breadth of activities the chapter conducts, including public education, supplies and displays for public events, wildlife and ecosystem advocacy, informational literature and signage, conservation project materials, website hosting, and miscellaneous operational expenses.
- Eco Kids Program: Our chapter’s newest program to connect families with children to nature and inspire a conservation mindset and enthusiasm for the natural world in the the next generation. Kids-oriented activities are offered periodically throughout the year, with the “big event” being our Kids in Nature Day in the spring. Activities include nature-hikes, hands-on nature-based crafts, interactive education, pollinator planting, and other outdoor field trips.
- Garden for Wildlife: This is one of the chapter’s most popular year-round activities. The chapter has established and oversees seven pollinator gardens in the area to-date, plus leads regular workdays to plant native trees and plants in public areas, such as the NC Museum of Art Park. In addition, trash cleanup events are held periodically under the “Clean & Green” initiative, where NCWF provides one native tree or ten plants for every 25 pounds of trash collected.
- Wildlife Habitat: We construct and install structures to support wildlife in public parks, schools, and preserves. Five turtle basking platforms were initially built and installed at Bass Lake Park, and we have since built over 60 birdhouse assemblies for both brown-headed nuthatches and bluebirds, which have been installed in various schools and parks in the area. Other species will be targeted next, such as owls or bats.
- Deer Donation Program: Supports the out-of-pocket equipment, supplies, and and deer-processing expenses for this all-volunteer program to feed those in need in our local communities with deer donated by local hunters. Provides lean ground venison to local food pantries, supports wildlife disease and medical research, and supplies veterans with leather craft materials. (Note: deer processing suspended while under CWD alert, per county regulations, but a variety of educational events are continuing)
If you prefer to donate by check, please make it out to South Wake Conservationists and mail it to the chapter treasurer as follows (feel free to designate in the memo line, if you want to direct this to a specific program):
Treasurer – South Wake Conservationists
3112 Mills Lake Wynd
Holly Springs, NC 27540
South Wake Conservationists 