Ignite Positive Change: Make a Year-End Gift in Support of Wildlife

By Tony Zick, Grants Coordinator

With the fall season upon us, now is the perfect time to consider your year-end giving priorities and how your contributions can make the world a better place. Giving to the Detroit Zoological Society (DZS) is a wonderful way to serve your community, support the well-being of animals and spark positive global change for wildlife and nature.

Gifts of any size to the DZS help support conservation locally and around the world. The more than 2,000 animals in residence at the Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Nature Center are ambassadors for their species; guests who connect with them are inspired to protect wildlife. The DZS relies on donors to help provide for the animals’ daily needs, including individualized diets, care and enrichment. In addition, donations help fund DZS research and fieldwork that conserve endangered species in their native habitats, such as Wyoming toads in the United States, penguins in the Falkland Islands and red pandas in Nepal.

Gifts to the DZS also help maintain the beloved Zoo and Nature Center campuses, host exciting events that bring the community together, offer high-quality science programming for underserved students in southeast Michigan and fund innovative practices that support environmental resilience.

If you have the option of rolling over funds from an Individual Retirement Account, giving appreciated securities or giving from a donor-advised fund, you may be eligible to receive a tax benefit as well.

The DZS is grateful to receive contributions from generous individuals, corporations and foundations. Thank you for your commitment to creating meaningful connections between people, animals and the natural world so all can thrive.

TO MAKE A GIFT

Please contact Andrea Richards at (248) 336-5729 or visit detroitzoo.org/donate