The Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2018 website is now available! This will be the
seventh year for the Natural Resources Foundation's spring fundraiser for the
Bird Protection Fund, and we've set an ambitious goal of $100,000, to celebrate
the Year of the Bird and the 100th anniversary of the Migratory Bird Treaty
Act. We have TEN priority bird conservation and research projects this year,
which you can find on the website.
The web service that we used since 2013 upgraded its platform and tripled its
price, so we changed to a new one. The new software is called DoJiggy, and the
new Birdathon site full address is wibirdathon.dojiggy.com. I admit it's a
weird name, but the software is economical and works well for our purpose. It
even does some things the old website didn't do. It's been around since 2009
and has very good reviews on Capterra, which is like Angie's List for business
software. We'll be using the same credit card processing software as before, so
that's all secure. We've redirected the familiar domain, wibirdathon.org, to
forward to the new address so that you can just share that link.
Special thanks to my colleagues Nora Simmons and Kim Kreitinger who made great
contributions to the design. As you browse the website and set up or join teams
and make donations, please send me feedback and questions so I can fix anything
that fell through the cracks.
Please consider joining the Birdathon this year! Teams have found all kinds of
creative ways to participate: morning strolls through the neighborhood, full
day dashes around the state, several hours of biking or kayaking, even
overnight backpacking trips. Food is usually a part of a Birdathon-lunch or
dinner to celebrate the day's success. The important thing is to have fun! And,
of course, raise money for birds.
Just a fun note: our first new team to register this year is "Mr. Dargatz's
Nature Kindergarden" from Menominee Falls. Go, young Birdathoners!
#BirdYourWorld #BirdYourWisconsin
Best,
Diane Packett
Great Wisconsin Birdathon Coordinator
Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin
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PO Box 2317
Madison, WI 53701
920-219-2587 (mobile)
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