Another Donor Challenged You to Match Their Contribution and You Met the Challenge in Record Time

Matching campaigns to help save the West Klosterman Preserve first started in 2022 with an anonymous donor, who set up a matching fund that helped fund the Green DeFence campaign and raised over $50,000 for the Preserve. She was joined with matching campaigns sponsored by Sally McConnell, Sanne Kure-Jensen and Mr. Friendly, John Gilliss, whose matching campaigns together raised almost $350,000 for the Preserve.

On September 10, an anonymous family who wanted to help save the Preserve established a $50,000 fund with a goal of raising $100,000 through matching your donations as the WK Preservation Group was facing its September 15 deadline. And together, you brought in over $100,000 in less than four days!

Everyone who has donated to the West Klosterman Preserve is a champion of saving slices of Paradise in the Tampa Bay region and this champion family and you have shared their passion for saving the natural beauty in Florida.

Here’s what they had to say as they started this matching campaign.

This initiative is near and dear to our hearts. We have lived in Florida all of our lives and have seen, on a local level, how new developments displace our natural wildlife. We appreciate the economic growth that’s expanded our local economy, but we also feel strongly in being good stewards of our land. Thus, we feel called to do our part to protect the natural habitat so close to our precious coastline. We are honored to be able to donate toward the campaign and hope that you will consider donating what you can to help save the West Klosterman Preserve.

Thank you to our anonymous family and to our growing group of people who have donated to save the West Klosterman Preserve. Success is in sight!