Groups to Support
Dear BEN Readers,
As you well know, the Bama Environmental News is sent to you free of charge. Each year, in lieu of a subscription fee, I ask our readers to make a donation to selected charities. Since 1999, BEN Readers have contributed over $8,000.
This year, as a result of my appointment by Governor Don Siegelman to the Alabama Environmental Management Commission, I must place a restriction on this year's gifts.
If you have business with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the Environmental Management Commission or foresee future business we cannot accept your gifts.
Please consider giving to one or all of the three charities
listed below. Your gift will foster and promote environmental
education and more
importantly make a difference in the lives of Alabama's children.
Best Wishes,
Pat Byington
BEN Publisher
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Descriptions and Contact Information
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Southern Environmental Center at Birmingham Southern College
900 Arkadelphia Road
Birmingham, Alabama 35254
205-226-4934
http://www.bsc.edu/sec<A
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* Proceeds go toward operation of the SEC's Ecoscape and Interactive Museum. Last year, more than 20,000 children visited the SEC. In order to provide all segments of the community with access to the center's programs, the SEC must rely on outside support. Your donation will also be matched by a local foundation. The SEC is truly a very special place. Make checks payable to the Southern Environmental Center.
Camp McDowell Episcopal Church Camp (Pat Byington Scholarship)
105 DeLong Road
Nauvoo, Alabama 35578
205-387-1806
http://www.campmcdowell.org
* The Pat Byington Environmental Scholarship Fund at Camp McDowell was created by the Alabama Environmental Council honoring Pat Byington's 8 years of service as the organization's Executive Director. Proceeds help children from low-income families attend Camp McDowell's environmental camps. Make checks payable to Camp McDowell (note the scholarship fund on the check)
Sheffield High School "Environmental Public Service
Scholarship"
Sheffield Education Foundation
C/O Dr. Richard Gardner, Ed. D.
Superintendent, Sheffield City Schools
300 West Sixth Street
Sheffield, Alabama 35660
256-383-0400
* Our newest charity, the Sheffield High School "Environmental
Public Service Scholarship" was created this November to
support graduating students from the high school Bama Environmental
News publisher Pat Byington attended. Over the next 5 years, Mr.
Byington will be donating his Commissioner's salary from his service
on the Alabama Environmental Management Commission ($100 per meeting-
approximately $600 a year) to the scholarship fund. Additional
gifts given to the fund will help continue the scholarship program
beyond Mr. Byington's service on the AEMC. The Environmental Public
Service Scholarship will be presented to a graduating Sheffield
High School senior on Honors Day in May (the scholarship will
go to the college the student will be attending). The scholarship
will honor a student who has shown an interest in the protection
and enhancement of Alabama's environment and natural heritage.
A student in need of financial assistance is preferred, but not
required. Please make checks payable to the Sheffield Education
Foundation with a note in the far section "Environmental
Public Service Scholarships."
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