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DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY
3511 BARLEY MILL RD, HOCKESSIN, DE 19707 | (302) 239-2334 | DELNATURE.ORG
OUR MISSION
Delaware Nature Society (DelNature) connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through
Year established: 1964 Number of full-time employees: 35 Annual revenue: $4.18 million Geographic service area: Delaware
Joanne McGeoch
Interim Executive Director
TOP FUNDING SOURCES:
Grants & Contracts: 58% Donations & Membership: 21% Program Fees: 15% Events & Other: 6%
You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.
—Wangari Maathai
SOCIAL MEDIA:
@DelawareNatureSociety @DENatureSociety @delnature
education, advocacy, and conservation. We envision a healthy and sustainable environment.
HOW WE MAKE AN IMPACT
• Advocating for clean water, access to open space, farmland protection, addressing climate change, protecting wildlife, and growing renewable energy (including assisting in securing $50 million in funding for clean water and $10 million in funding for farmland protection in 2021)
• Distributing thousands of pounds of our organically grown produce for members and local families in need
• Hosting educational programs for children and adults to connect them to the natural world through in-person and online courses
GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
Memberships and donations support our work, including but not limited to:
• Reaching and Engaging Through Nature to Empower Wilmington (RENEW):
school programs and internships for students living in the City of Wilmington
• Environmental Advocacy: Secures funding for important issues such as
open space, farmland protection, clean water, and climate change
• Bird Conservation: Research of breeding, wintering, and migrating birds,
and habitat protection and restoration
• Regenerative Agriculture: Coverdale Farm Preserve—one of four DelNature
sites—practices conservation farming methods that improve soil health, biodiversity, water quality while adapting to a changing climate
LEADERSHIP
Joanne McGeoch
Interim Executive Director
Eric J. Brinsfield President
Dan Barbato Vice President
Nicki Taylor Secretary
Adele McIntosh Treasurer
BOARD MEMBERS Kevin Donnelly
E. Bradford duPont, Jr. Pamela S. Finkelman Margaretta S. Frederick Frederick deL Greenewalt Ellen Kohler
Mary Y. Peck Dawn Rittenhouse Suzanne Smith Richard Stuckey Roland Wall
Andy Wetherill Marian R. Young
HONORARY DIRECTORS Bernard Dempsey Lorraine M. Fleming
Peter H. Flint
Nancy Frederick Michael E. Riska Lynn Williams
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