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2022 MPF Marker Match

July 1, 2022 | Giving, News

Susan Lordi Marker and Dennis Marker will match gifts of any amount up to a total of $25,000 to create a special prairie stewardship fund this year.

In 2021, the Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF) acquired five additional properties, including three donated by the Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. With these additional holdings, MPF’s stewardship costs will increase, but the conservation values of these stunning prairies is priceless.

When The Nature Conservancy donated Goodnight-Henry, Rockhill, and
Shelton L. Cook Memorial Meadow prairies to MPF, the organization also donated $50,000 for future stewardship costs. This year, MPF invites supporters to grow this amount to $100,000. MPF lifetime members Susan Lordi Marker and her husband Dennis Marker will match all gifts, of any amount, to a total of $25,000. Our goal is to raise a total of $50,000, including the match to create a special $100,000 stewardship fund for these three prairies.

 

“Because we are prairie owners ourselves, we know first-hand about stewardship costs,
and we want to help MPF build this special fund to sustain the rich diversity of these three
prairies well into the future,” said Susan Lordi Marker. “Prairie protection is not inexpensive, but
we all know it is worth it. Please join Dennis and me in making a gift for MPF’s 2022 campaign.”

 

 

This campaign’s goal has been met!

2022 Stewardship Campaign Donors as of January 2, 2023

whose contributions total more than $52,000:

 

Karen & John Albright
Kathleen & Harold Anderson
Jan & Lyle Anderson
Sharon Bachmann
Ruby Ball
Linda & Bob Ballard
Chris & Debra Barnhart
Mark Belwood
Patty & Steven Berry
Anita Berwanger & Harley Scheidegger
Marilyn & Dennis Bettenhausen
Cheryl & Guy Burgess
Marty & Rhonda Clark
George & Linda Deatz
Ronald Dellbringge
Susan Cohen & Mitch Krasnopoler
Suzanne Crandall
Kathy Doisy & Matt Knowlton
Susan Dyer
Judy & Vernon Elsberry
Joanne & William Fogarty
David Galat
Darin Groll
Andrea & Wilfred Hardiman
Steven Hollenbeck
Jean Keskulla & George Stalker
Venita Kelley
Elizabeth Kellogg & Peter Stevens
Holly Kinser
Andrea Hamilton Kintree
Bryce Knight
Elizabeth & Austin Lambert
Lea & Dennis Langdon
Marge Lumpe
Jane Mandel
Susan Lordi Marker & Dennis Marker
Nancy Martin
Veronica Mecko
Claire Meyners
The Miller-Hammond Fund
Barbara & Wade Newman
Jeanne Ortega
Orbie Overly
Madalyn Painter
Susan & Kei Pang
Bailey Patterson
Mark & Bari Phipps
Terri Riutcel
Mary Ann Phillips & James Scott
Alex & Cathy Primm
Lois Quenneville
Brian Ritter
Susan Rohde
Laura Ross
Bruce & Ann Schuette
Deborah & Don Schultehenrich
Arlene Segal
Ardis Shipley
Richard Steel
Mary Stuppy
Rheba Symeonoglou
Daniel Terpstra
Rick & Karen Thom
Randy Washburn
Andrew Williams & Rebecca Christoffel
David Wolfe & Janet Kister
Kay & George Yatskievych

 

 

Photo of Susan Lordi Marker and Dennis Marker by Rick Kraft

 

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