This is your last chance to get your donation (up to $100) trippled. Time is running out. The doubling ends at 12:00 Noon. Make a donation to The Environmental Conservancy of North Port at The Giving Challenge NOW.
This year we have a special bonus. A generous supporter who wishes to remain anonymous has pledged to match all Giving Challenge contributions up to $5,000.
Every family member can give a separate donation on different credit / debit cards. So, if you give $100 and your spouse gives $100 and your child gives $100, that $300 becomes $900 for the Conservancy.
Clear-cutting of trees from lots is often a shock and gets attention easily; but beneath those trees, native plants thrive that seem to often be misunderstood and/or overlooked completely. Routinely scraped away by machinery, underbrush mowed down or dug out/covered up with sod, an amazing variety of beautiful and hearty plants adapted to our Florida weather await discovery.
Routinely we perform plant inventories on our lots. In the initial plant inventory we did on our first lot we acquired (Lot 1) we counted 51 different plants!
If you multiply 51 plants by the vast number of lots that are cleared daily in North Port alone, and multiply that by the week or the month - and then expand that to acreage that is also being cleared for commercial development all around us - thousands upon thousands of native plants are being removed from our natural environment all the time and few - to none in many cases - are being planted back; instead they are replaced with generic landscaping plants, Big Box store non-native plants, or sod.
While native plant nurseries are abundant with natives, not all plants are cultivated and sold in these nurseries, leaving a vast number of them to face permanent erasure from our landscape as times go by.
After you make your donation, please help us spread the word. You can send an email to your friends, or post to your followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to make a donation now. Here’s a message you can copy and paste:
I just had my donation to The Environmental Conservancy of North Port Conservancy TRIPPLED: https://bit.ly/3uOEjY5 Will you donate too? #GivingChallenge22 #BeTheOne #EnvironmentalConservancyofNorthPort
Thank you for your incredible support.
If you are uneasy about making the donation on a web site, contact us at (941) 218-9775 while the Challenge is running and we will lend assistance. We want this to be a huge success, and we will help any way we can.
The 2022 Giving Challenge is presented by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County with giving strengthened by The Patterson Foundation.
Thank you for all your support. It means everything to us.