Before the year ends, people have the chance to get their donation to the National Park Foundation tripled.
All donations to the foundation will be tripled, thanks to the foundation’s board of directors, up until midnight on Dec. 31. All donations will be matched up to $1 million to triple the impact of the donations.
Donations can be made online through the foundation’s website and donors can choose whether they want to make a monthly or one-time donation.
What is the National Park Foundation?
The National Park Foundation is the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service and it generates private support and builds partnerships to protect and enhance the nation’s national parks.
“As the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, we directly impact what matters most: our treasured national parks. We focus on promoting programs and projects that protect precious landscapes and wilderness, historical sites, and places of cultural significance,” according to the foundation’s website.
Created by Congress in 1967, the National Park Foundation provided a way for private citizens to directly support the parks for the first time.
“The creation of the National Park Foundation led to the immediate protection and enhancement of some of our most iconic and historic places,” according to the foundation’s website.
The foundation does a variety of things: It helps keep trails clear through the service corps program, partners with collaborators like the White House to get kids outdoors, and raises and allocates critical funds to keep the parks safe.
Some of the foundation’s early projects include establishing grants to protect President Theodore Roosevelt’s home in Sagamore Hill on Long Island and making emergency purchases to save iconic places such as Gettysburg and the Blue Ridge Parkway.