SUPPORT THE CONSERVANCY
CHOOSE WHERE YOUR DOLLAR GOES
Give the gift of nature to children
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Help us cultivate a passionate new generation who values nature as much as you do!
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The Escondido Creek Conservancy’s education team brings local students and adults out into nature. The benefits of outdoor education are numerous, and exposing students to nature helps them understand why it is so important for us to protect natural spaces.​
We have an exciting opportunity to develop stronger, more sustainable support for the Conservancy’s environmental and outdoor education programs—with an eventual goal to serve every school within the watershed. We are building a unique regional approach to environmental learning so we can expand our capacity and meet the demand for more nature-based learning in our local communities.​ Join us in our efforts by donating, sharing our story, and helping us raise funds to support outdoor education for many years to come!
Connecting Conservation Corridors: A Missing Lynx Project
People and wildlife need the same things: places to find food, safe shelter, community to find a mate, and a peaceful life to raise their young. Habitat fragmentation due to development is one of the greatest threats to wildlife survival. This extensive loss of wildlife corridors threatens the survival of many species and increases wildlife conflicts with people and pets.
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That’s where you come in. With your donation to our Land Fund, the Conservancy can connect habitat corridors in North County by saving three key properties. The White Atterbury (San Elijo Hills), Elfin Acres (Elfin Forest) and Kesting Dairy (Harmony Grove) properties are for sale and, with your help, we can purchase them and save them. These properties serve as critical wildlife corridor connections.
Donate now to help us protect these properties before they are lost forever.
Supporting the people that make conservation happen​
With the support of our wonderful donors like you, The Escondido Creek Conservancy has had great success leveraging small private donations into millions of dollars in grants that have resulted in the protection of thousands of acres of conservation land in North San Diego County.
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When you donate to the operations of the Conservancy, to the All Hands In campaign, your gift directly supports:
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Land acquisition, so the mission of the Conservancy is realized.
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Compliance with Land Trust Alliance standards and practices, so the Conservancy meets or exceeds national standards and that our lands are fully protected in perpetuity.
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Strategic leadership, so the Conservancy is an effective conservation leader.
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Effective communications and outreach, so Conservancy supporters and the public learn about the Conservancy’s work and are called to action.
Buy a Brick
In 2021, the Conservancy launched an ambitious project to create an office for itself, called Boulder Outlook, so that it no longer would pay rent. Fast forward a few years and one pandemic later, the office was completed. The building has also begun serving as an education center, to help train the next generation of conservationists. Our fundraising goal: $350,000.
We began the Buy a Brick campaign to pay permanent tribute to the generosity of our donors by installing memorial bricks at Boulder Outlook. The first group has already been installed, creating a walkway from the back patio to the shade area. We are now collecting for the next group that will fill the area under the shade structure. If you purchase a brick by August 2025, it can be installed in time for our October 25, 2025, Outdoor Education Elevated fundraiser, a not-to-miss family-festival to benefit outdoor educational programming and activities. Secure your sponsorship by August 15, 2025, and we will include a brick (at our cost!) and install it in time for all to see at the 2025 Outdoor Education Elevated event!​
Mountain Lion Makeover--Campaign Complete!
We are incredibly grateful for your contributions and, because of donors like you, we are thrilled to announce that we have reached our fundraising goal! We are now able to finish restoring this remarkable specimen and create a new educational habitat for her!
As you may know, the mountain lion was originally gifted to the Conservancy by an anonymous donor. She was taken legally many years ago, at a time when mountain lion hunting was still permitted, and was since kept in storage and out of sight. Our intention was to professionally restore and stabilize her so she can serve as an educational centerpiece for many years to come. We firmly believe that her restoration will perpetuate the story of the iconic California mountain lion and the vital role this species plays in our ecosystems.
To fully honor this project, we granted our capstone campaign donor the opportunity to name her as a fun and meaningful gesture. Our lion, now called Jessi, is named in honor of Jessica Heinz, a wonderful volunteer and late spouse of yet another wonderful volunteer, Jerry Block. Jessi spent a week at a "spa” (aka the freezer), at the San Diego Natural History Museum, and has since been at our office being updated by a very talented taxidermist, Simone Pixley. Over the last few weeks, Jessi has been transforming before our eyes. Simone is now creating Jessi’s "habitat" and she will soon have a plexiglass case to protect her from the sun. Yet another wonderful volunteer, Greg White, is using his crafty wood working talents to make a custom trim base for Jessi. Stay tuned for more updates on the marvel of Jessi’s Journey!
OTHER WAYS TO GIVE
There are many more avenues to show us support, please contact
Executive@escondidocreek.org
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Charitable Gift Annuities
Gifts of
Securities
Charitable IRA Donations
Memorialize someone at a Conservancy Preserve
Gift of
Real Estate
