Your membership support

The Delaware Highlands Conservancy has a strong record of conservation success. With your help, we will achieve much more.

Your membership contributes to the protection of healthy lands, clean water, and quality of life in our unique Upper Delaware River region.

Become a member now!

As a member, you receive quarterly newsletters and invitations to special member only programs. You are connected to our activities and events. You are in the loop regarding the news of all our new initiatives and conservation achievements. 

Your membership contribution is an investment in our mission.

Your membership enables us to safeguard the farms, forests, and waters of Wayne and Pike counties in Pennsylvania, and Sullivan and Delaware counties in New York.

YOU are vital to our success.

Please join us in protecting healthy lands, clean waters, and our rural quality of life.

To join by MAIL, please click here, print the membership form, and mail it back to the address on the form along with your check or credit card information.

To join by PHONE, just give us a call at PA: 570-226-3164 or NY: 845-583-1010 with your credit card information.  

To join ONLINE

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Gifts of cash are fully deductible. We welcome donations in any amount.   

Other ways to support the Conservancy

Give the Gift of Conservation

What better way to say you care than giving the gift of clean drinking water, productive farms, beautiful forests, and healthy wildlife habitat. For that special occasion – birthday, anniversary, thank you, graduation, wedding – say “I care about you and your quality of life” by giving a membership to the Delaware Highlands Conservancy.

Volunteer

The contribution of your time and effort is vital to our success. Want to organize outings, promote events, map our easements, participate in our monitoring walks, craft grant proposals, write articles for our newsletters, create press releases, drive a fundraising event, or provide general office support? Visit our volunteer page and learn more.

Donate Stock, or Real Estate

Gifts of stock earn a federal income tax deduction equal to the fair-market-value of the stock. If your stock appreciated you avoid paying capital gains on the appreciated value.

Gifts of real estate allow you to avoid federal taxes on the appreciated value of your property. If land is given for conservation purposes, we will work with you to create a conservation easement that ensures its protection in perpetuity – maintaining it in a natural or ‘wild’ state or making it available for passive recreation. Gifts of real estate with little or no conservation value can be used to house our office, or be traded or sold to raise funds, allow us to protect plant and wildlife habitat, scenic vistas, forestlands, and clean water elsewhere within the Upper Delaware River region.

Take Advantage of Planned Giving Strategies

Planned giving strategies are available that allow you the lifetime use of your property or provide you with an annuity from your investment. A landowner can give property to the Delaware Highlands Conservancy but retain the right to live on it. Full ownership of the land transfers to the land trust upon the death of the landowner. As with the outright donation of lands, mutually agreeable terms of management and maintenance will be agreed.

Make a Bequest to the Conservancy

Convey land or other gifts to the Delaware Highlands Conservancy in your will. A deduction from the value of one’s taxable estate may be allowed for land bequeathed for public purposes. The Directors of the Delaware Highlands Conservancy would be pleased to explain the giving options to you, your lawyer and your accountant.