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Partners for the Environment launches fundraising campaign

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Twelve groups from across the region are partnering to raise funds to continue their crucial missions of protecting and preserving our vital natural resources.

Today, more than ever, help is needed to support the work to preserve and protect the green spaces we love. In the midst of a global pandemic, our parks, forests, wetlands, hiking trails, rivers and streams are there for us. They give us a place of peace, discovery, joy and rejuvenation for our physical and mental wellbeing. And we need them to be there for us in the future. We need clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy soils to grow our food.

For the month of February, the Gifts That Grow campaign unites local and regional not-for-profit groups to help raise awareness and needed funds to continue their work. The campaign is a collaboration managed by the Partners for the Environment including:

 

    • Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm
    • Beaver Creek Wetlands Association
    • B-W Greenway Community Land Trust
    • Brukner Nature Center
    • Central State University
    • Clark County Park District
    • Glen Helen Association
    • Learning Tree Farm
    • Little Miami River Watershed Network
    • Marianist Environmental Education Center
    • Tecumseh Land Trust
    • Rivers Institute at the University of Dayton

 

The Gifts That Grow fundraising campaign will run through February 28, 2021.

They need your help today! Donate now at https://tinyurl.com/GiftsThatGrow2021.

The funds raised during the Gifts That Grow campaign will be split evenly among the participating organizations. The Partners for the Environment is a Component Fund of The Dayton Foundation. For more information: www.gdpartners.org

 

The Partners for the Environment is an alliance of environmental organizations, government and civic organizations, and public and private educational institutions. These organizations share the common goal of protecting, restoring, preserving, and promoting the environmental and agricultural resources of the Great Miami River and Little Miami River Watersheds – an 18 county region in southwest Ohio.

Ralph Dull to be honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

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Ralph Dull, local farmer and environmental advocate, will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement award tonight at 6 pm at the Partners for the Environment Annual Dinner at the Brukner Nature Center in Troy.

 

The Partner of the Year awards celebrate organizations and people that work to protect, preserve, and restore the environmental and agricultural resources of the Great Miami River and Little Miami River watersheds.

 

Dull, of Brookville, has worked tirelessly to protect farmland, promote sustainable agriculture, and use green energy in his family farming business. His family owns and manages several farms that are permanently protected with agricultural and or conservation easements. He also is known as a founder of the Dayton Peace Museum and he and his wife Christine were inducted into the Dayton Region Walk of Fame in 2011.

 

Dan Jackson, former staff with Montgomery Soil and Water Conservation District, also is being honored posthumously with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work with communities to protect sensitive lands and promote conservation.

 

“The awards dinner is an opportunity to honor those who have done exceptional work and have provided us with inspiration and leadership,” says Sarah Hippensteel Hall, co-chair of Partners for the Environment.

 

A couple of other awards will be presented during the dinner.

 

  • Stephen Mackell will be honored with the Individual of the Year award. He is the co-farm manager with Mission of Mary Cooperative.
  • The Miami Valley Leave No Child Inside collaborative is being honored with the Partner of the Year award for its efforts to connect children in the Miami Valley region to nature and the outdoors by giving them opportunities to develop the skills and desire to become stewards of the environment.

 

The Partners for the Environment is an alliance of environmental organizations, government and civic organizations, and public and private educational institutions within an 18-county region in southwest Ohio. More than 70 organizations are connected to the alliance.