The National Wildlife Refuge Association has an opportunity for you!! Through the generosity of some of our great Board Members, we have established the O’ Brien Prize, an annual award for our Friends groups. The prize is named after Donal O’Brien III, a past Board Chair and longtime enthusiast of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Don is a generous supporter of the great work we do for Refuges and is very impressed by the dedication and effectiveness of Refuge Friends groups.
This year we are offering 2 $1000 prizes. We know this isn’t a huge amount of money so have kept our application form very simple. It should be pretty easy and take little time for you to fill it out. Please email the completed form back to us by June 15. We plan to announce the award recipients early in July.
We understand that this is a modest beginning but plan to build the dollars available and increase the awards given each year.
Thank you for everything you all do for your Refuge and for the National Wildlife Refuge System. We at the Refuge Association are very proud to call you all our partners and recognize the very important work you all do, every day, every week and year after year for all the refuges across the country.