Consider a Gift to Our Annual Campaign
By Kellie Dentler reporting for Native Plant News Fall 2025
This year’s annual campaign marks a powerful milestone: the upcoming 75th anniversary of the North Carolina Native Plant Society. This November when the annual campaign kicks off, we invite you to be part of it when you make your gift.
Why native plants matter
For nearly 75 years, NCNPS has worked to protect native plants and share why they matter. Native plants are central to our experiences in nature. Picture goldfinches and cardinals singing in your backyard, stretches of flowers lining the roads you’ve driven for decades, or the dappled light cast by tulip and oak tree canopies on forest trails. Savor a child’s joy in finding a blooming Painted Buckeye (Aesculus sylvatica) while you are together walking through the woods.
When you donate to the Annual Campaign this November, you carry forward our nearly 75-year mission: advocating for healthy habitats and plant communities, educating others about thriving ecosystems, conserving green spaces and the wildlife that depends on them. Your support sustains NCNPS. You are the reason we continue to grow and thrive.
Honor someone special
As we get ready to celebrate this milestone in 2026, we ask you to consider making your gift before the year’s end in honor of, or in memory of, an NCNPS member who inspired your love for native plants. Your tribute not only celebrates their legacy, it helps ensure that future generations enjoy thriving habitats in their communities.
Help usher in our 75th anniversary with a gift to the Annual Campaign. Let’s protect native plants as we have for more than seven decades – together. You don’t have to wait to give – we hope you will give starting this November to our annual 2025 campaign.
Kellie Dentler lives in Greensboro and is a member of the Triad Chapter. Kellie brings 20 years of experience in philanthropy to her role as chair of the annual campaign for NCNPS. She is a certified Master Naturalist, a mother of three, and a lover of hiking through trees.