Training

If you haven’t looked at the current PPFF website to review the write-up and links related to your friends group, please do so ASAP, as we will soon be converting to our new website and want to make sure we have your information accurate. The new website better highlights the friends groups and the work that we all do to steward our public lands.

Annual Reports! If you need any help meeting the January 31 deadline, please let us know. Reports and annually required conflict of interest form signed by each of your board members can be found on the Friends Resources page of the website. 

Annual Report (Excel)
Annual Report (PDF if you prefer to write stuff)
Conflict of Interest

Know

One of Pam's early year tasks is to update the online report of donations you access in NEON to pull the current year. And as reports come in and reflect new chairs and/or treasurers she updates the automatic email a donor receives that is copied to those chairs and treasurers. While she's in there making changes, it's a pretty simple matter to refresh the text as well so if you'd like your message to reflect something a little more focused on your group than the generic message that is used in each auto message feel free to let her know.

The text at present reads:

Thank you for recognizing the quality of life advantages, economic and health benefits, and - yes - the simple beauty of _____ State Park/State Forest with your contribution of ${Donation Amount} to the Friends of _______.

As the parent organization for the Friends and its dozens of sister chapters, the Pennsylvania Parks & Forests Foundation (PPFF) is proud of these hard-working volunteers and is grateful - as they are - for your generosity. Thank you for supporting their efforts, and ours! You can be certain that 100% of your donation stays right here in Pennsylvania, supporting our chapters and PPFF's mission to inspire stewardship of Pennsylvania's state parks and forests through public engagement in volunteerism, education, and recreation.

If you are a chair or treasurer and you do NOT receive a copy of this email when someone donates to your group online, please be sure that you have added mmowery-ppff@pa.net as a safe sender in your email server (and check your spam filter occasionally) as we do seem to get trapped in spam all too often.
 

Share 

2021 is the 50^th anniversary of the Environmental Rights Amendment to Pennsylvania's Constitution. You can find our draft plan for celebrating this important anniversary here. We welcome your ideas as well as for members of the friends to join our planning committee. The best way for this Amendment to grow teeth is for us to educate the public on its existence and the important need to invest in our state parks and forests. Each month Sarah will include some social media ideas and you can always visit our social platforms and share.

Share - Part 2

We anticipate that visitation to state parks will continue to be high, particularly as the weather starts to warm in the spring. One role that you can play is to share information on your website about being safe in the outdoors (both seasonal safety as well as pandemic) and offer ideas of lesser-used areas of the park/forest. We know where we go!