Making a Gift
to the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System
A gift to the Earth does a world of good
How to Contribute
Send your contribution to the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System, 7660 Cave Road, Bainbridge, OH 45612.
Donate $35 or more per year, and you will automatically become a Friends of the Arc Member. As a thank you, all members receive our two yearly newsletters in the mail, and an invitation to our annual Donor Gathering. Additionally, all members will receive a Friends of the Arc decal and membership magazine that includes all of our trail maps.
The pass is good for your household and any guests who accompany you in one car, and is valid for the entire year in which it was purchased. New members who join at the end of the year will also receive the next year's pass.
Where does your money go?
The simplest most direct act we can do on behalf of biodiversity protection in the eastern United States is to acquire land and restore large block of our native ecosystems. The Arc is an extremely active land-buying organization. We reunite forest fragments, create contiguous forested river corridors, and buy up rare botanical and zoological hotspots.
Currently we manage over 4000 acres in southern Ohio in fourteen preserves, a region belonging to the high-diversity heartland of eastern America's temperate hardwood forest. Read more about what we do.
Land is expensive, but we only need to buy it once. How much land would you like to save? At today's rural forest prices, here's how far your money can go.
$35 2.5 square rods $75 5 square rods $500 1/5 acre $1000 2/5 acre $2500 1 full acre $5000 2 full acres $10,000 4 full acres $12,500 5 full acres
Our Promise to You
We value the privacy of your home and overflowing mailbox by sending you only one or two news mailings a year; and we value your donation by conducting a low-overhead and efficient operation. We will never give out your mailing address or e-mail address to other parties; nor will we ever ply you with calendars or tote bags. What we will do is conduct our operation as frugally as humanly possible and turn your donation into the enduring gift of life and land.
Gifts of Stock, Charitable Remainder Trusts, and Endowments
The Arc of Appalachia has a strong partnership with the Columbus Foundation, who can give expert advice on charitable remainder trusts and other financial giving instruments. Currently the Foundation manages a fund in the Arc's name, called the Highlands Fund, and all donations to this fund are transferred to the Arc to further advance its mission.
If you are considering supporting the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System with a pivotal and long-lasting gift, call Brad Britton at the Columbus Foundation at 614-251-4000, extension 106.
For other questions about contributions, please call our main office at 937-365-1935.
See our Official Mission Statement as recorded with Ohio's state and the federal government.
Do a charity review of our non-profit status and history at GuideStar.
