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Meet the Young Professionals
Holly Magliano, a YP Board member, and Chris Browder, a YP member, met through a YP-hosted event. Two years later, they've announced their engagement and plan to be married this spring!
How did you both get involved with the YPG?
Holly: I got involved after attending The Nature Conservancy's Gala in 2005 as a guest of a New York State Trustee. At the event, I met a few staff members who told me they were planning to start a Young Professionals Group and I immediately got on board.
Chris: My fly fishing guide in Montana had been after me for years to get involved with The Nature Conservancy since he liked the organization’s work. I finally pulled the trigger, found the YPG and went to my first event in NYC.
How did you two meet?
We met on a trip to Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island in 2006. It was a rainy weekend, but on Sunday the sun came out and we ended up in the same kayak. It was a great way to get to know somebody. We got engaged two years later.
How do you integrate your concern for the environment into your everyday life?
We constantly think about our impact on the environment and ways to lessen it. We are members of a CSA and eat local, organic food in season. We reuse & recycle, try not to use plastic bags, carry reusable, aluminum water bottles... but there is so much more we can do. Recently, we've been learning more about composting indoors and we'd love to trade in our Escape for the hybrid model.
What do you like/are your favorite things about the YPG?
Holly: My favorite thing about the YPG is the people. Here you find talented professionals with a passion for the outdoors and a concern for our planet. Both of us have made strong friendships within the organization and we are most grateful that we found each other!
In addition to being a member of the YP Board, Holly is a Co-Chair of the YP Events Committee, working tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure the success of events like our annual YP Benefit. Both Holly and Chris enjoy good food, travel, and outdoor activities in all kinds of weather!
Green Reading
by Joel Papo
Investing in Nature (by author William Ginn) is a collection of case studies which explores how investment banking strategies are powerful complements to traditional approaches to acquiring land for conservation purposes. The book covers topics including conservation investment banking, the creation of new environmental markets, and incentives that encourage conservation practices. These strategies, all of which have been utilized by The Nature Conservancy to protect large tracts of land, are explained in an engaging manner that is accessible for those without a finance background. William Ginn is Director of the Conservancy's Forest Conservation Program and has helped The Nature Conservancy to protect over 1.5 million acres of forestland.
YP Committees in the areas of Conservation, Events, Development, and Membership & Media are directly involved in helping to plan our events and to expand our efforts. They are not only a great way to get involved, but can also help determine whether a position as a YP Board Member might be the next step.
For more information about the Real Estate Group and the Real Estate Group Steering Committee, please contact Joel Papo.
For more information on the YPG or how to join, please visit our website or contact us.
Special thanks to Naomi Arbit, who compiled the content of this newsletter. Questions? Email Naomi.
For all other inquiries, please contact us .
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Announcing New YP Membership Benefits!
The Young Professionals Board is pleased to announce the addition of exclusive benefits to recognize the commitment of YP members supporting our efforts at higher levels:
- Friends receive all the benefits of being a member of The Nature Conservancy and receive invitations to members-only events, including preserve trips and talks with Conservancy scientists and program staff.
($100 annual contribution)
- Supporters also receive invitations to exclusive invite-only events.
($250 annual contribution)
- Conservationists are also invited to participate in activities hosted or attended by Conservancy Trustees, including our annual year-end celebration.
($500 annual contribution)
- Conservation Partners can also invite a non-member guest to attend members-only trips/events (like Mashomack), and are invited, along with a guest, to a complimentary fall cocktail reception attended by Trustees and other Conservancy supporters.
($1,000 annual contribution)
Click here for more details, or email us to learn more.
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Upcoming Events with the YPG
Happy Hour with the YPG!
Thursday, October 23
6:00 to 8:00pm
Stone Creek
140 East 27th Street (3rd/Lexington)
Come reconnect with old friends and meet new ones over cocktails after work! Learn more about how you can get involved with the YPG and support The Nature Conservancy’s efforts to protect the last great places on Earth. Happy Hour specials will be available from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Special thanks to Jon Pirozzi of Stone Creek for hosting this event!
Please RSVP by October 20th.
Join us for a Special Party
to launch our Forest Initiative!
November 6, 2008
7:00 to 10:00 PM
Aldine
150 Varick Street
Join us for a Bacardi-sponsored cocktail party to launch the Young Professionals' Forest Initiative. Each year we focus our efforts on raising awareness and support for a specific conservation priority, and this year we've chosen to highlight forests, essential to the health and quality of human life and a source of livelihood for more than one billion people living in extreme poverty around the world.
A recent study indicates that the global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis.
Our event will be hosted by Aldine, where we'll be able to tour the premises and learn how we as individual consumers can fight illegal logging and promote sustainable forestry. Bacardi is providing complimentary cocktails during the evening, and there will be a special After-Party at Marquee open exclusively to formal YP members. Participants of the YP Board Challenge Fund will also receive complimentary entry for a guest!
Please RSVP by October 29th
Click here to see photos of our recent outings, including the pre-opening party we hosted with Zev Jonas and NY Studio Gallery.
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Conservation Spotlight:
The Fortune of Follensby Pond
The Nature Conservancy has purchased 14,600 acre Follensby Pond in the Adirondack Park, a site known as much for its ecological importance as for its place in literary history. One hundred AND fifty years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson and a group of thinkers set up camp in Follensby Pond, at a place they called “Camp Maple,” after the location’s maple trees. There, these scholars came up with the well known philosophy of Transcendentalism, based upon an emphasis on the spiritual and an appreciation of nature.
Follensby Pond is equally important today. After bald eagles were virtually wiped out from the Adirondack ecosystem due to DDT use, Follesby Pond was chosen as the location for their reintroduction. The intervention proved very successful and currently there are 12 nesting pairs of the bald eagles in the preserve.
Click here to read more about the Conservancy's save of this amazing property!
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