Become a Sustaining Member
Becoming a Sustaining Member is the best way to enhance and preserve special places and experiences in Oregon’s parks now and for future generations. By supporting Oregon Parks Forever with an ongoing monthly, quarterly or annual gift:
- If you choose monthly or quarterly payments, your payments are smaller than an annual contribution,
- Your membership remains current, renewing automatically until you tell us to stop (or your credit card expires).
- Recurring gifts are efficient and paperless (no renewals sent in the mail),
- Your recurring gift provides us with a predictable, reliable, steady stream of funds and,
- We spend less on fundraising efforts and more on our projects and programs!
Please note that Membership does not provide parking privileges in any Federal, State, Local or Tribal park.
Thank you in advance for considering to be part of a community that supports environmental education, accessibility, and healthy activities in parks throughout Oregon.
Details
- Recurring gifts can be set up with a credit or debit card, or Paypal.
- Changes to your recurring gift can be made at any time by contacting the Director of Membership & Communications at 503-966-1163 or administrator@orparksforever.org.
Thank you Gifts
As a thank you, if your recurring gift contribution totals $75 or more each year, you will receive an annual subscription to 1859 Oregon’s Magazine. If your annual contribution totals $125 or more, you will receive a gorgeous Oregon parks & forests wall calendar by Rick Schafer. If your annual contributions total $250 or more, you will receive a Northwest Forest Pass (valued at $30), good for access to US Forest Service properties in Oregon & Washington that charge a standard amenity recreation fee . Please note we are no longer offering a thank you gift of an Oregon State Parks annual parking permit. If you prefer to not receive a thank you gift, simply opt-out after choosing your donation amount.
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As a member of Oregon Parks Forever (previously Oregon State Parks Foundation), you join a team dedicated to enhancing and preserving special places and experiences in Oregon’s parks now and for future generations. Your gift supports projects and programs in Oregon parks that:
- Protect facilities, amenities and trails that have already been built;
- Promote healthy activities like hiking, camping, and cycling;
- Increase environmental education opportunities;
- Ensure Oregon’s parks are accessible to youth in under-served communities.
As a thank you for your support, membership levels starting at $75 will receive an annual subscription to 1859 Oregon’s Magazine.
Membership Levels
PARK FAN (Up to $50)
You will become part of a growing community that is helping to enhance, preserve, and protect special places and experiences in parks and forests throughout Oregon, in addition, you will have the following benefits:
- Our Monthly eNewsletter featuring interesting, timely information about Oregon’s parks and forests
- The option to be recognized as a Park Fan on OPF’s donor acknowledgment page on our website
PARK ADVOCATE ($50 – $74)
You will become part of a growing community that is helping to enhance, preserve, and protect special places and experiences in parks and forests throughout Oregon, in addition, you will have the following benefits:
- Invitation to “members only” webinars
- Discount in Oregon Parks Forever online store – 10%
- Our Monthly eNewsletter featuring interesting, timely information about Oregon’s parks and forests
- The option to be recognized as a Park Advocate on the donor acknowledgment page on our website
PARK CHAMPION ($75 – $124 )
You will become part of a growing community that is helping to enhance, preserve, and protect special places and experiences in parks and forests throughout Oregon; in addition, you will have the following benefits:
- Annual Subscription to 1859, Oregon’s Magazine *
- Discount in Oregon Parks Forever online store – 10%
- Our Monthly eNewsletter featuring interesting, timely information about Oregon’s parks and forests
- Invitation to “members only” webinars
- The option to be recognized as a Park Champion on the donor acknowledgment page on the OPF website
*You always have the option to decline to receive 1859 and allow 100% of your donation to go to support our work
PARK EXPLORER ($125 – $249)
You will become part of a growing community that is helping to enhance, preserve, and protect special places and experiences in parks and forests throughout Oregon, in addition, you will have the following benefits:
- A beautiful 2023 Oregon photo wall calendar, with photos by lifelong Oregonian, Rick Schaefer*
- Annual Subscription to 1859, Oregon’s Magazine*
- Our Monthly eNewsletter featuring interesting, timely information about Oregon’s parks and forests
- Invitation to “members only” webinars
- 10% Discount in Oregon Parks Forever online store
- The option to be recognized as a Park Explorer on the acknowledgment page on the OPF website
*You always have the option to decline to receive 1859 and the calendar and allow 100% of your donation to go to support our work. These thank you gifts are not tax deductible.
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PARK ADVENTURER ($250 – $499) Become part of a growing community that is helping to enhance, preserve, and protect special places and experiences in parks and forests throughout Oregon, in addition, you will have the following benefits:
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DIRECTORS CIRCLE ($500 – $999)
*You always have the option to decline to receive the NW Forest pass, calendar, and 1859 subscription to allow 100% of your donation to go to support our work. These thank you gifts are not tax deductible. FOUNDERS CIRCLE ($1,000 – and Up) Become part of a growing community that is helping to enhance, preserve, and protect special places and experiences in parks and forests throughout Oregon, in addition, you will have the following benefits:
*You always have the option to decline to receive the NW Forest pass, calendar and 1859 subscription to allow 100% of your donation to go to support our work. These thank you gifts are not tax deductible. |
Tax Information
Oregon Parks Forever is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that relies on support through memberships and private contributions which are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law. Our Federal Tax ID: 93-1177836.