Donations
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
