Dear Mr. Svitek,

On behalf of The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, I want to thank you for The Kate Svitek Memorial Foundation's recent $1,000 gift. Our organization is striving to move forward with creating environmental awareness. Gifts like yours helps us do just that.

Since 1965, The Schuylkill Center has been providing environmental education to urban Philadelphia citizens, especially students. In line with Kate's ideas about "providing people the opportunity to grow through their interaction with the environment", the Center hosts many children during their first experience with nature. We consider outselves the backyard of Philadelphia, where people can escape the confines of the inner-city.

I know in the past, Nancy Clair had witnessed our EcoVan program in action at a school in west Philadelphia. This initiative allows our educators to teach water education to students using our traveling EcoVan laboratory. Although we have retired the van itself, the program continues, using revised curriculum and hands on activities inside and outside the students' classrooms. In addition, the Center has many wonderful programs occurring in 2005, including: nature rambles, water surveying, low ropes challenge course, and various "blitzes" that focus on recycling, water and wildlife.

Again thank you for your support. It is greatly appreciated and makes a big difference in our ability to carry out our environmental mission. You or any of the Foundation's trustees are welcome to visit our site. Please do not hesitate to contact me at 215.482.7300, ext. 139 or apoff@schuylkillcenter.org.

Sincerely

Ashleigh Poff
Grant & PR Coofdinator