Annual Appeal Needs Your Support!

For 365 days a year, New Canaan Nature Center provides an open destination for members of the surrounding communities to visit, explore, learn about and experience nature. Our goal is provide a wide variety of natural and physical science programs designed to impart knowledge of the natural world around us to all age groups, while encouraging respect and care for our fragile environment and all living things.

Our Annual Appeal is the most important fundraising campaign we conduct all year and helps us preserve and enhance this invaluable resource while improving and broadening the services we provide. Looking ahead to the future – and to celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2010 – we are confident that our organization has planted the seeds that will yield a bright and vibrant future.
These include:
• An excellent staff that includes passionate environmental educators, experienced early childhood educators and seasoned administrative professionals.
• Innovative programming such as the 4th grade LINKS exchange, curriculum based school programs, and a new community garden.
• Increased outreach to our New Canaan neighbors and beyond through free Saturday programs, our “green” book club, new birding club, maple tree & honeybee hive adoption programs.

Despite this wonderful progress, we still need strong financial support to ensure that NCNC continues to flourish, and that our community continues to benefit and learn from what we have to offer. Your contributions, in any amount, have never had a more meaningful impact than they do right now.

We hope that, on many occasions throughout the year, you visit NCNC to take in the restorative effects of nature, find refuge, learn about something unfamiliar, and be inspired. Thank you for being an important part of our family and for your continued support of this community treasure.

For more information about giving opportunities, please email Laura Heckman or call (203) 966-9577.