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Aldo Leopold Nature Center launches $3M campaign

The Aldo Leopold Nature Center's new campaign will focus on equitable education initiatives, capital improvements and growing the endowment fund.
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The Aldo Leopold Nature Center (ALNC) announced the launch of its $3 million Building Our Legacy: Sustainability Now & Into the Future Campaign. The campaign will focus on three areas:

Equitable education initiatives

  • Funding low- or no-cost programs to bridge financial, language and transportation barriers;

  • Supporting Nature Net: The Environmental Learning Network; and 

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  • Providing equitable staff compensation to aid retention.

Capital improvements

  • Installing multi-language interpretive signage;

  • Replacing a boardwalk, outdated roof and solar panels; 

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  • Restoring trails, docks and bridges for accessibility; and

  • Upgrading Science on a Sphere and the Immersion Theater climate science exhibits.

Access for future generations

  • Growing the endowment fund to annually support access initiatives.

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With gifts from the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation and Diane Endres Ballweg, the campaign is 89% fulfilled. ALNC has $341,000 left to raise.

To learn more or get involved, click here.

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