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Dear Friends:
I hope you’ve heard the good news that Atlanta Audubon is expanding our role to do more for birds all across the state as Georgia Audubon. Birds are telling us it’s time to act, and I’m proud to report that our dedicated staff continues to work closely with members, partners, and supporters to build places where birds and people thrive, even as we face such uncertain times. Throughout the stay-at-home orders and social distancing of the past several months – thanks to your support – we’ve been able to continue our important work to restore bird-friendly habitat, monitor bird populations, and connect people with birds and nature in new and exciting ways. And today, I have even more exciting news to share with you. Over the past 24 months, a group of generous members and supporters has committed $500,000 in support of our expanded vision to create a conservation-minded Georgia which values and appreciates the important functions that birds and other wildlife play in our shared ecosystems. These critical dollars have already helped accomplish so much for conservation in Georgia. I’m writing to ask you to support this ongoing work and to help us do even more as Georgia Audubon. Building off of the impressive commitment from this group of initial supporters, I want to challenge us all to flock together to raise an additional $50,000 by December 31. Will you join me with a gift of $159 or more to the Flocking Together Campaign today? That’s $1 for each of the 159 counties in our state in which Georgia Audubon now hopes to inspire a love and appreciation of birds and the natural world. Your gift to the Flocking Together Campaign will help us spread our wings as the leader in bird-friendly conservation. All the way from our founding days in 1926 as the Atlanta Bird Club to our incorporation in 1973 as an independent chapter of National Audubon known as Atlanta Audubon, it’s you, our members, who have helped build each and every successful program that we celebrate today as Georgia Audubon. Though we’ve made necessary changes to our work due to the pandemic, I’m so proud of the ways the staff have continued to innovate and adjust to the challenges we’ve faced over the past several months. We’ve been able to continue providing educational opportunities through Webinars to more than 1,500 participants. Our new Virtual Bird Walks have allowed us to reach more than 58,000 followers this spring and summer. This fall, volunteers will be able to begin monitoring their Project Safe Flight routes again, and two new Chimney Swift towers will soon be installed along the Atlanta BeltLine. Conservation staff and volunteers have begun meeting with property owners again to certify additional bird-friendly Wildlife Sanctuaries all across the region. From the Wildlife Sanctuary Program to Project Safe Flight … From our Learning About Birds youth education to our Ambassador Hummingbird program … From the construction of 8 Chimney Swift towers and the installation of more than 500 Brown-headed Nuthatch nest boxes … And from inspiring new bird enthusiasts through our free public bird walks to placing a pair of binoculars in a child’s hands for the very first time … Together – from the mountains to the coast, and everywhere in between – we are Georgia Audubon. I hope you’ll join me with your own commitment to the Flocking Together Campaign today so we can continue to work together to do more for Georgia’s birds and habitats. We are eager to bring our work to communities all throughout Georgia, and we can do so with your support. With gratitude, Jared Teutsch Executive Director P.S. We’d love to share some of our new Georgia Audubon apparel with you. Each donor who makes a campaign contribution of $159 or more by December 31 will receive one of our new Georgia Audubon caps to show off your love of Georgia’s birds. |
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Georgia Audubon is building places where birds and people thrive through Conservation, Education, and Community Engagement.
Piping Plover, Walker Golder / Audubon Photography Awards
Georgia Audubon is adding critical capacity to coastal conservation work in our state. Over the next 12 months, our work will focus on monitoring shorebird and coastal bird populations in partnership with the Jekyll Island Authority and the Georgia Sea Grant Program. Our expanded efforts on the coast will also increase access to nature for underserved communities and engage coastal residents and visitors in the protection of critical habitat along the Georgia coast.
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Corina Newsome, Katherine Arntzen / Georgia Southern University
Georgia Audubon’s new Community Engagement Manager, Corina Newsome, knows the power that birds possess to quickly draw a person’s attention and curiosity to the world around them. Using birds as our vehicle, our expanded Community Engagement efforts will help us scale out successful conservation and education programs to communities throughout the state. Georgia Audubon is committed to seeking out, listening to, engaging the voices of more diverse bird and nature enthusiasts in our membership and programs.
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Photo by Melanie Furr
Over the past three years, Georgia Audubon has reached nearly 7,000 K-12 students--the next generation of conservation stewards--with hands-on, nature-based education education programs. Bird-friendly outdoor classrooms were installed at eight southwest Atlanta schools as part of our Connecting Students with STEM through Birds Program. Today, our 13-unit bilingual curriculum, Learning About Birds, is being redesigned to meet updated educational standards and to provide the digital resources that today's educators rely upon to reach their students.
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Make a gift of $1,000 or more to become a member of Georgia Audubon's Leadership Giving Circle to make a meaningful impact for Georgia's birds and habitats. In appreciation of your generosity, you'll earn special recognition opportunities and benefits throughout the year.
Join the Leadership Giving Circle
Make a gift of $1,000 or more to become a member of Georgia Audubon's Leadership Giving Circle to make a meaningful impact for Georgia's birds and habitats. In appreciation of your generosity, you'll earn special recognition opportunities and benefits throughout the year.
Leadership giving is calculated on an annual basis based on cumulative donations and membership gifts made from January 1 to December 31. Please direct any questions to Michelle Hamner, Director of Development, by email or by phone at 678-973-2437
