Do you #GiveAHootAboutTheEnvironment?
Yesterday, the Park County Community Foundation launched its second annual Give A Hoot community giving challenge.
During the month-long challenge, all donations to PCEC will be partially matched by the Park County Community Foundation. This makes right now a great time to donate.
Dollar for dollar, your support goes a long way with PCEC, with 100% of your funds staying here in our community. At PCEC, we rely heavily on individual donations. In 2019, we are exceptionally proud to report that 68% of our annual funding came from community philanthropy -- from supporters just like you. Knowing that the same people we run into on the trail, at the grocery store and at the Farmers Market are the same people that invest in our work, inspiring us to be a more effective community organization. We can’t do it without you.
Our fundraising goal from Give A Hoot is $50,000. Last year, we received more than 100 unique donations, earning us the #2 spot on the leaderboard. This year, we hope to do even better.
Donate through Give A Hoot today
Your gift today supports community-based conservation right here in your backyard. That work starts right here, in the community. During the pandemic, we’ve helped organize local volunteers to sew more than 3,000 masks for dozens of community organizations, and we give them out for free each week at the Farmers Market.
And as always, your investment in PCEC supports an environmental vanguard in Park County with the ability to swiftly respond to environmental issues in the northern gateway to Yellowstone -- America's backyard.
The next ten years are an important time for a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that is facing new threats, a changing climate, and unprecedented growth. As the go-to local conservation group, PCEC is committed to:
Encouraging county and city governments to take a more active role in planning for expanding growth fueled by a demand to live and recreate near Yellowstone National Park;
Spearheading collaborative solutions that resolve conflict over trail access, consolidate public land and protect wildlife habitat in Montana's Crazy Mountains;
Engaging on critical water resource issues and use in the Yellowstone and Shields river watersheds;
Strengthening public lands protection and creating new Wilderness in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest;
Preventing mining companies from developing leases on private lands that border Yellowstone National Park;
Leading local community members to help with plastics reduction by making Boomerang Bags, reusable shopping bags and to help with recycling and composting at the Livingston Farmers Market;
Building Conservation Leaders through our internship program with Park High Green Initiative.
You can donate to PCEC during Give a Hoot through our donation page on the Give a Hoot site: https://www.give-a-hoot.org/PCEC. Gifts can also be made by check by using the official Give a Hoot donation form.
Thanks for your support.
- All of us at PCEC