Who took 2,055 young people accompanied by 248 teachers and Chaperones to the Islands?  
CIR did, and now you can help support this important program!

 

Join CIR at one of these
suggested membership levels
and receive these valuable benefits!

 

Members will be invited to our annual appreciation event in March 2013

This year we will feature a BBQ at Carpinteria State Beach, plus a geology walk with Dr. Tanya Atwater and a tour of the Carpinteria Salt March with Wayne Ferren!

 

PLUS:

Each membership entitles you to:

One CIR organic-cotton T-Shirt
(island fox, Coreopsis, heron, or island)
 Fox shirt colors:
green goldenrod or gray

Donate through our
web page:
Donate by check payable to:

Channel Islands Restoration

550 Maple Street Unit F
 Carpinteria, CA 93013

 

 


Seventy Eight Youth Trips Teaching Conservation Principles and Restoring Habitat Since 2004.

CIR has taken 2,055 young people to Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands sine 2004, and these kids came from mostly low-income school districts.  CIR works hard to enable these kids to visit the Channel Islands, learn about conservation and ocean pollution and volunteer on important restoration projects. 

CIR raised the money to pay for the boat, bus, pre-trip classroom education and the staff to organize and lead the trips for the vast majority of these schools.   Your CIR membership will help fund our program next year, just as government grants disappear!

 

Government Funding Scarce!
Our robust school program for the last few years was funded chiefly by state and federal grants, but government funding for this type of school trip has become scares!  CIR will continue to teach kids about conservation and ocean pollution, while providing once in a lifetime visits to the Channel Islands, but we need your help to support these programs.

 

Private Sector and Membership Support.
 CIR will be turning to our membership, supporters and to our local business community to fund the school program in the coming years.  Our spring school trips will happen in just a few months, but we do not have any funding for them yet.  You can help support this program by joining CIR with a tax-deductible contribution. 

 

Please join CIR and help us restore critical habitat and educate hundreds of school children and adults every year about conservation and the value of California’s native habitat.  Please remember that CIR must raise a great deal of our funding from individuals to keep operating.    That is why we ask for contributions, and we hope that people who support our work will also support us financially.

 

Please read on to learn how you can support CIR with a year-end, tax-deductible membership. 
Every membership helps us plant a native and educate a child!

 

Top: 4th graders from Ventura schools pose with CIR staff on Anacapa Island.  Left: Volunteers plant natives at Carpinteria State Beach.  Right: CIR expenses in 2012.  Eighty-two percent of our budget goes directly to support our restoration and educational programs, but we must raise the funds from  individual donors to pay for many of those programs and to cover other necessary costs.