Thank You To Our Partners
Thank you to our dedicated partners for your tireless efforts in researching and advocating for the preservation of the magnificent monarch butterfly. Your unwavering commitment plays a crucial role in ensuring the well-being and sustainability of this beautiful species. We are grateful to have you as part the global solution and appreciate your inspiration for our vision. Together, we look forward to continuing this important journey in the community.
Donation Recipients 2024
National Gold Recipient - CDN
The Canadian Wildlife Federation’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of Canada’s wildlife and habitats for the use and enjoyment of all.
The Canadian Wildlife Federation conducts its activities through a cooperative approach – working with people, corporations, non-government organizations, and governments to inspire collaboration in achieving wildlife conservation. We will use the best available science-based information to develop our policies, programs and communications. CWF prides itself in being accountable and transparent in fulfilling our mission.
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CWF has a comprehensive and far-reaching Monarch conservation program. We conduct research, produce communications products, and work extensively with partners in Conservation Authorities, Counties, Municipalities and Corporations. The goals are to create and restore breeding and feeding habitats along public roadsides, rights-of-way (e.g. hydro-lines, pipelines, solar farms), and on marginal farmland.
In addition to active habitat restoration, CWF invests considerable expertise and resources in training events for our Networks of Municipal and Utility partners, where we leverage our connections with restoration experts throughout North America.
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Our Monarch Conservation program expands annually as we take on new projects and strategies. And because Monarchs are considered an umbrella species for other pollinators, these projects also provide habitat for many other insect pollinators, such as bees.
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Kanata, Ontario, Canada
Regional Silver Recipient - CDN
OakvilleGreen’s vision is to create a LIVING Oakville with restored nature and a community that is connected to nature.
We strive to make Oakville a living city with enhanced natural diversity, stronger connections between natural areas, and healthier green spaces. We aim to reconnect people to the natural environment in their neighbourhood and across their community to increase their awareness of the importance of nature and to move them to action to protect, enhance and restore Oakville’s natural environment.
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Community Partner Recipient - CDN
ArtHouse is a Halton charitable organization that provides FREE arts-based programs for children and youth age 7-17 who have little or no access to fee-related activities. We nurture the wellbeing of the Whole Child every step of the way – unconditionally – in an atmosphere that is supportive and safe.
ArtHouse is like a Village – and it’s not a small village. We estimate that close to 15,000 children and youth have little or no access to any extra-curricular programs throughout the Halton Region. And while we simply can’t accommodate everyone, we are grateful to our Community Partners, our Instructors, Volunteers and our Donors who are working with us to ensure that we can reach as many of our most vulnerable young people as possible. Our goal is to enhance their confidence, curiosity, imagination, resilience and respect for one another. We are using our arts-based programming to show them that there are Pathways to Possibility and that beyond graduation there is a world of opportunity in our fast-changing 21st century.
We believe the case for the arts is the strongest we’ve seen in decades. We are committed to helping our participants grow creatively, socially, emotionally, intellectually and unconditionally in an atmosphere that is supportive and safe. We will stay connected Every Step of the Way.
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Halton, Ontario, Canada
Research Fund Recipient - USA
Monarch Health is a citizen science project based at the University of Georgia in which volunteers from across North America sample wild monarch butterflies to help track the spread of the OE protozoan pathogen over space and time. Citizen scientists test monarchs harmlessly for OE by pressing a clear sticker against the butterfly’s abdomen. Volunteers then send their samples to our lab at UGA for us to examine under a microscope for the presence of protozoan spores. Infected monarchs have many brown, football-shaped spores scattered in and around their scales. After processing samples, volunteers receive a summary of the infection status of each butterfly they monitored.
The broader mission of Monarch Health is to understand pathogen spread and impacts on monarch butterflies. We also aim to understand how disease patterns are changing in response to human activities, and what actions might mitigate disease spread. We seek to enhance awareness of monarch biology and conservation through the partnership of citizens and scientists.
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Athens, Georgia, USA
National Gold Recipient - USA
The Monarch Joint Venture is a national partnership dedicated to conserving monarch butterflies and other pollinators. Since 2008, the MJV has brought together partners from across the United States in a unified effort to conserve the monarch migration. This diverse partnership includes federal and state agencies, other nonprofits, community groups, businesses, and academic programs that work together to implement science-based conservation actions in the form of education, habitat, and science. These actions are organized in a regularly updated Monarch Conservation Implementation Framework, which serves as a framework to guide conservation planning for individuals, partners, and other interested stakeholders nationally.
As a leader in monarch conservation, the MJV supports monarch conservation planning and implementation efforts on a broad scale by facilitating information sharing, partnership building, and carrying out identified conservation priorities. We facilitate multiple working groups focusing on topics such as communications, agriculture, and monitoring. Additionally, the MJV funds its partners to carry out priority actions identified in the Implementation Framework. Beyond this, we provide accessible educational information on monarchs and their conservation to various sectors and the public.
To reach our nation’s ambitious monarch and habitat targets, commitment from a diverse set of stakeholders is required. The MJV works to recruit, educate, engage, and inspire to action a broad spectrum of individuals and entities, both partner and non-partner.
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Regional Silver Recipient - CDN
OakvilleGreen’s vision is to create a LIVING Oakville with restored nature and a community that is connected to nature.
We strive to make Oakville a living city with enhanced natural diversity, stronger connections between natural areas, and healthier green spaces. We aim to reconnect people to the natural environment in their neighbourhood and across their community to increase their awareness of the importance of nature and to move them to action to protect, enhance and restore Oakville’s natural environment.
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Community Partner Recipient - CDN
For almost 100 years, Oakville Rotarians have raised funds through special events to support local area charities and not-for-profits, dispersing financial aid to many deserving organizations and their very worthy projects and initiatives. As well, funds are donated and leveraged to support Rotary International projects that impact the global community in a meaningful way.
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Research Fund Recipient - USA
Our mission is to better understand the distribution and abundance of breeding monarchs and to use that knowledge to inform and inspire monarch conservation.
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The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project is a joint MJV and University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum citizen science project to track monarch eggs, larvae, and milkweed throughout North America.
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Madison, Wisconson USA