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$ 28,000 and counting!
Thank you to all of our financial supporters for helping us exceed our 2005 goal and for supporting our important work in Missouri. I don’t mind telling you though, that this is only the beginning. The environmental challenges we face in Missouri have grown in number and scope in recent years and to meet these challenges Chapter leaders have developed an ambitious long-range strategic plan that will fully fund the Club’s conservation priorities.
The plan actually expands our reach and effectiveness in Missouri so that we can continue our work to safeguard Missouri’s natural heritage for generations to come. It identifies aggressive conservation priorities and legislative goals, and provides for a new long-range sustainable fund-raising plan that will enable us to achieve our expanded vision.
You are an important part of that plan!
Financial support from ALL our members is needed in 2006 and beyond to ensure that Sierra Club has the resources to hold polluters accountable and affect positive policy changes for the long-term health and safety of Missouri communities.
Your Missouri Sierra Club — staff working with an active and engaged member base — is involved throughout the state implementing critical programs aimed at shaping public policy and protecting the best of Missouri for our children. These programs are not merely theoretical. Our work has a direct impact on you, your family, and your community.
There are many important environmental organizations in Missouri, each playing its part, but only the Sierra Club has an army of citizen activists. Only the Sierra Club utilizes every lawful means of defending the environment, including grassroots organizing, litigation and lobbying. We are the only environmental organization with a full-time lobbyist at the state capitol.
The work of our staff, multiplied by an active and engaged member base, makes Missouri Sierra Club the most efficient and powerful environmental organization in the state. One you can be proud to support!
The 2005 Missouri Ozark Chapter Annual Appeal has received more than $28,000 in member donations — exceeding our $25,000 goal. Our average donation is up, thanks to some generous major donors. However, to date, the number of 2005 donors is far short of the number of the number of 2004 donors. We have fallen short of our goal by 222 donors. Those 222 donors would add over $4,000 to our annual appeal at only $20 per donation.