Emily's Birthday Fundraiser for Parks California

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💕 A Message from the organizer, Emily:

Thank you for considering a donation to ParksCA in honor of my 31st birthday! If you know me, you know that I love parks and spending time in the outdoors. I am so lucky that I get to build on this love in my work life helping support State Parks all across the state. Even if you don't donate, I hope you enjoy my personal slideshow of fond memories in State Parks from over the years and find some inspiration to go outside! Locations in order of photos: Candlestick Point SRA (at Kite Fest, happening this Sunday 10/27!), Henry Coe SP, Point Lobos SNR, Van Damme SP, Salton Sea SRA, Russian Gulch SP, Big Basin Redwoods SP, Fort Ross SHP (x2!), Millerton Lake SRA, and Lake Natoma (part of Auburn SRA).

Raising and Riding to help make California parks more welcoming, inclusive and climate resilient!

Thank you for supporting Parks California through Tour de Parks!

We believe in the promise and potential of the next generation of park stewards. The work we do helps people from diverse background build connections with parks and benefit from a connection to nature, history, and culture. With each gift you generously contribute, another young person can take another step toward expanding their connection with nature and their impact on the future of parks.

Specifically, our Career Pathways, Route To Parks, and passPORTS programs enable young people to take important steps toward a lifelong relationship with parks. That lifelong relationship can lead to decades of active stewardship of California’s treasured parks.

When you contribute, you create opportunities for young people to build meaningful connections, and you invest in the promise and potential of the next generation of park stewards

You'll also help make parks more climate resilient so they remain healthy and available to all people for the next one hundred years and more. Our Landscape Scale Partnerships and Climate Fellows programs pilot projects in parks to address critical issues across the largest and most diverse state park system in the U.S. Addressing coastal erosion, wild fire, sea-level rise, habitat destruction, and other impacts of climate change across the diverse biomes of California, we are able to build frameworks, programs, and practices that can inform climate resilience world wide in the years ahead.

You may have a friend participating in Tour de Parks to raise funds to strengthen California's parks for the future. Thank you for supporting your friend, and thank you for investing in parks!

We have an ambitious goal of raising $100,000 through Tour de Parks, and we are grateful for your investment in California's parks! Your generous unrestricted support (meaning we will use your investment where it is needed most), for the overall project or via one of the participants, will help ensure parks are meeting the evolving needs of everyone – today and in the future.