Youth Outreach

Photo by Stella Miller

Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon Society's (NY) Youth Outreach Committee gives a program at a local senior center.

In November 2008, Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon Society (NY) formed a Youth Outreach Committee as a means of engaging teens in nature and conservation. Stella Miller, Chapter President, mentors the members of the Committee by providing leadership training in fundraising, marketing, public relations, donor cultivation, and program development and coordination. The committee meets once a month to brainstorm program and project ideas. They manage a blog, write articles for the Chapter newsletter, lead a series of "Young Naturalist" field trips, conduct workshops for Cub Scouts, are in engaged in a kestrel nest box project, and visit nursing homes for their program "Bringing Teens and Seniors Together: Bridging the Generation Gap Through Nature".