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John,
I know how much you care about saving open space, and I know how busy the holidays can be.
That’s why you’ll be glad to know there’s still time to take advantage of our generous supporter’s matching-gift offer and make your special year-end support go twice as far to create parks and protect public lands for people.
When you make a tax-deductible year-end gift today, it will be matched dollar for dollar. Your gift of $25
will be matched with another $25, making a total of $50. A donation of $35
will become $70, and $50
will turn into $100.
We’re grateful for all you do as a friend of The Trust for Public Land, and I know this is an opportunity you wouldn’t want to miss. Your gift will be doubled, so it will do twice as much to:
- Create Stronger Communities: With the pandemic, wildfires, and hurricanes uprooting lives and livelihoods nationwide, we need our public lands — wilderness areas, neighborhood parks, and everything in between — more than ever before. And with reckless development, climate change, and state and local budgets stretched to the breaking point, our public lands need us more than ever before too.
- Preserve our National Parks: There are approximately 2.6 million acres of privately and state-owned land or “inholdings” in national parks across the country. For instance, at Arizona’s Saguaro National Park, 128 acres of land near the park and the newly connected Sweetwater Preserve remain in private hands. These properties can block access to popular trails and other sites, as well as impact trail access, wildfire management, views, water quality, and wildlife habitat. At any moment, irreversible development could take place on the park doorstep. We’re negotiating with multiple landowners to sell the land to us, so that we can transfer it to the National Park Service, but we still have a long way to go.
- Save our Public Lands: The battle over the future of our public lands is being waged daily across the country. Some in Congress want to transfer public lands to the states — who could sell them to the highest bidder. In states where voters have approved taxpayer dollars for conservation, officials are instead using the money for other programs.
The year is almost over — and that means our year-end matching gift offer will end soon. Make your tax-deductible contribution to The Trust for Public Land by December 31 so that your special year-end gift can be doubled to keep open space … open.
Sincerely,
Kim Elliot
Senior Director of Annual Giving
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