Eastside Audubon Receives REI Grant

Eastside Audubon proudly announces the receipt of a grant from REI for $5821. The Youth Education Committee will use these funds to expand and improve our youth programs. Approximately $1,000 of the grant is clothing and camping gear which will be loaned to the low-income students who receive camp scholarships each summer. 

The rest of the grant will be used for a variety of items, including books, a microscope, art materials, DVDs, a storage container and clipboards. In addition, the "Bird Box," a complete educational program for loan to classrooms, will be completed and loaned free to teachers after volunteers have done presentations in their classrooms. This program contains lesson plans and the materials needed to teach them and will be an invaluable tool in the classroom.

On Saturday, August 29, Margaret Lie and Mary Britton-Simmons, members of the Education Committee, spoke to the staff at the Redmond REI about Eastside Audubon's work in the community. After their presentation, Store Manager Rick Creekmore

presented the grant. Eastside Audubon is very grateful to Redmond REI for giving the Education Committee the opportunity to reach more children and to improve the quality of its services.