Events
The most important aspect of the work of Three Aunties will
be providing educational events for the public.
To celebrate the newly-official nonprofit, Three Aunties, and
get it off to a rolling start, we plan to hold an environmental networking
event. The purpose will be to mix
experienced environmental advocates with newcomers as well as with scientists and
researchers. We plan to have
activities that will help everyone who attends meet one another and learn what
the other people are doing or interested in doing. This will
let people know whom to contact for assistance and information to further their
environmental and research projects.
In addition, we plan to publish a summary of the meeting
with each participant stating their specific projects and interests and contact
information. This will be made available
at no charge on the Three Aunties website.
If this event is successful, we will repeat it annually.
The next big event we are planning is a ROOTS festival. This will be a farm and domestic arts
workshop patterned after the primitive skills workshops that are cropping up
all over the country. See links:
ROOTS stands for Reclaiming Our Origins, Traditions and Skills. The purpose is to restore pride in, and
cultivate appreciation for, our historical and natural heritage. This will be accomplished through providing
opportunities for the teaching and learning of ancient and traditional skills
that are being lost. These skills are
beginning to be recognized as being important for young people who will live in
the world of future decades.
This event aims to restore a sense of place and a positive
relationship with our natural surroundings that will help benefit people’s
mental and physical health and well-being.
This three-day event is planned for late in the year annually, starting
in 2013.
Other events will be planned as opportunities arise. Three Aunties may partner with other
nonprofit organizations in some of its endeavors.
Publications
Besides educational events, the next most important work of
Three Aunties is to provide information.
Three Aunties may publish articles, books, multimedia electronic
publications, apps and newsletters that inform the general public and
interested specialists of important research, discoveries, natural occurrences,
natural phenomena, and empowering methods of co-existing with nature in a
mutually beneficial manner.
Several publications are on the drawing board. These will include blogs, multimedia e-pubs
and videos.
To inform people of the imperiled state of some of Florida’s
butterflies, Three Aunties is working on obtaining extraordinary photographs of
the rarest species and those that may even be extinct. Three Aunties will publish “Wanted” posters
with these photographs and pertinent information on them. In addition, we plan to publish the photos
and links for further information on T-shirts, cups, etc. through Café Press or
another similar outlet, preferably local if we can find one. We may also inform people of our events, and
of concepts and ideas associated with the mission of Three Aunties, through
this medium.
Blogs
Three Aunties plans to maintain several blogs that will
provide information on events, publications, and nature study topics. These blogs will also link to websites where
publications can be found. On the
websites and blogs, people will be able to read and download free e-pubs and
purchase admission to events. They will
also be able to purchase e-pubs, and if available, to order hard copies of
Three Auntie’s publications. A
preliminary list of Three Aunties' blogs includes:
Grants
If we find any possible opportunities to obtain support for
the work of Three Aunties through grants from government agencies or private
foundations, we plan to take full advantage of these. Possible projects that may be supported once
Three Aunties is an official nonprofit would be publicity for Three Aunties’
events on public radio, small grants for use of municipal buildings for
nonprofit public events, and some education, research, and conservation grants.
Biodiversity
Conservation
Finally, Three Aunties may work with private foundations
and/or government agencies to purchase, preserve, and enhance the biodiversity
of environmentally strategic tracts of land in Florida through a Biodiversity
and Land Conservation program. Three
Aunties would solicit donations from foundations, government agencies, individuals
and businesses that are inclined to want to do something to preserve and
enhance biodiversity in Florida, and use the funds to facilitate biodiversity
preservation.
When possible, Three Aunties plans to use these biodiversity
preserves for nature literacy education and research to benefit the public as
well as for specialists, land managers, and scientists (such as with the ARC of
Appalachia Preserve System at this link:
Hope For the Future
As of this time, Three Aunties plans to accomplish its
activities through the volunteer efforts of the Board of Directors, which
includes many-talented people with skills, training and experience in
computers, writing, biological science, alternative health, nonprofit
administration, event planning, and more.
The Board of Directors will work with affiliates and other volunteers,
and will network with other nonprofits and government agencies, to accomplish
this work.
In our different ways, all of us at Three Aunties are
praying for a future where our work will be well received, our offerings will
be grasped, and our purpose and intentions will be fully supported, so that we
can do the work now that we feel is most important for future generations.
