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The Leslie Science and Nature Center, an independent community-based 501(c)3 organization, provides environmental education programs and activities for children and families. Donations provide a critical part of continuing LSNC's innovative educational programming. Donations are welcome!

Please make checks payable to:

Leslie Science and Nature Center or LSNC
1831 Traver Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Or donate online via Network For Good

Thank you for your donation to the Leslie Science & Nature Center. All contributions are tax deductible and provide critical funding for scholarships, program materials, raptor and animal support.

The Leslie Science and Nature Center is a non profit 501(c)3 organization. Your gifts are fully deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Funds to the Leslie Science and Nature Center fund the following:

Camp scholarships - annually
Critter House support
Staff education
Much needed Supplies

Wish List

The Leslie Science and Nature Center is in need of the following:

Binoculars

Spotting Scope

Vacuum cleaner

Field guides

GPS system

Critter House food

Bird seed

Please call (734) 997 1075 if you would like to donate any of the above items! And thank you!!

Book List

This is a list of books our staff would like to use and have on our bookshelves. The gift of a book can reach thousands of children.

Compost! by Linda Glaser
The Day the Great Lakes Drained Away By Charles Ferguson Barker
Diary of a Fly by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss
Frog Heaven: Ecology of a Vernal Pond by Doug Wechsler
How do birds find their way? by Paul Mirocha
Market Day: A Story Told with Folk Art by Lois Ehlert
The Mushroom Center Disaster by N. M. Bodecker
Oak Forest Ecosystems: Ecology and Management for Wildlife by William J. McShea
Pretend You're a Cat by Jean Marzolo and Jerry Pinkney
Re-Cycles by Michael Elsohn Ross and Gustav Moore
Scats and Tracks of the Great Lakes: A Field Guide to the Signs of Seventy Wildlife
So What, Saw-Whet? by Rochelle Frank and Linda Gast
Species (Scats and Tracks Series) - by James Halfpenny
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils (Great Lakes Books) By Charles Ferguson Barker
Verdi by Janell Cannon
Vernal Pools: Natural History and Conservation by Elizabeth Colburn

Donations

We are grateful to the following businesses, foundations, and individuals for support to our programming:

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation - $40,000 to support the transition of the Leslie Science and Nature Center entity to a non-profit organization
James A. and Faith Knight Foundation- $17,500 to support the transition of the Leslie Science and Nature Center to a non-profit
Wolf Family Foundation - $13,500 for school environmental education programs
Pfizer - $9,500 for school environmental education programs in Ypsilanti
Friends of Leslie Science Center - $4500 for summer camp scholarship and general support
General Motors - $5,500 for support of the Global Rivers Environmental Education (GREEN) Program
Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor - $750 to support raptor programs for local school groups
Wild Bird Center - for donating birdseed at cost

Thanks To Our Adopt-A-Class Sponsors

The following businesses and individuals donated funds to enable school groups to participate in an environmental education field trip.

Beckmann Coulter
Comerica Bank
Donaldson & Guenther, DDS
A-1 Rental
Jean Kluge