Your support is needed to protect wildlife habitat in Loudoun County. Loudoun continues to rapidly lose wildlife habitat due to development. You can help ensure that Loudoun preserves vital greenspaces where people and wildlife can thrive together. Your investment in Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy is an investment in the future of a healthy tomorrow where current and future generations can enjoy the awe and wonder of nature.

You can help!

GiveChoose is a unique 24-hour crowdfunding event organized by the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties to support local nonprofits. You help us win cash prizes being offered throughout the day.

Prizes will be awarded for most unique donors and most dollars donated during select periods during the day, and for total donors and dollars for the day. We are going to target the following windows to maximize our chances of winning these bonus prizes. Please donate during one, or all, of the below windows:

• 7:00 – 8:00 am (early bird gets the worm)
• 1:00 – 2:00 pm
• 9:00 – 10:00 pm (for the night owls)

Your support is critical to our success!

Your donation to Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for GiveChoose will provide us with funding to be able to continue to deliver high quality programs that inspire, motivate, and engage people to protect, preserve, and restore wildlife habitat in Loudoun.

Inspire

Your contribution makes education programs and field trips throughout Loudoun County possible. Every year our spring ephemeral walks dazzle attendees by the resilience and beauty of early spring forest flowers, and our various programs on wildflowers remain some of our most popular. All of our nature walks highlight the importance of functional habitat in making our experiences with wildlife more impactful. Our Eagle Cam program not only brings the awe and wonder of nature into homes and classrooms, it educates people about the importance of wetlands and the habitat necessary for wildlife such as bald eagles to thrive. These programs inspire life-long passions to protect and appreciate wildlife and their habitats.

Motivate

Your donation provides resources for our Audubon-at-Home (AAH) program. Our AAH program educates and motivates homeowners to create wildlife friendly habitat in their backyards. Our ambassadors conduct site visits, provide recommendations, and certify people’s properties as wildlife sanctuaries thanks to support from donors like you. To date, we have certified over 350 properties totaling over 4,600 acres as wildlife sanctuaries.

Engage

Volunteers work on deer exclosure fence. Photo by Sheri Knauer

Your gift helps create and restore wildlife habitat and create experiential programs to directly engage people with nature. Each year, we host two Native Plant Sales with over 1,400 participants, getting native plants into the hands of eager residents. And, last year we sold 700 plugs of milkweed to residents at our annual Milkweed Sale at Northwest Federal Credit Union’s Leesburg branch. Additionally, we have been working with volunteers to establish a pollinator meadow along the W&OD Trail in Leesburg at Harrison St. We also host monthly volunteer opportunities to enhance the habitat at our very own JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary which included a variety of forest restoration projects last year to protect native vegetation from excessive deer browsing pressure. Our goal is to help rejuvenate the understory of our mature forest to benefit our local amphibian populations and other wildlife.

You can be a champion for wildlife!

You can inspire your family, friends, and neighbors connect with nature. You can motivate others to get involved to protect, preserve, and restore wildlife habitat. You can engage the next generation of leaders.

Thank you for investing in our future!

Don’t want to wait until March 19? You can donate starting March 5th. All early giving donations will appear on the leader board on March 19th.

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