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North Carolina Annual Zoological Society Report 2007 North Carolina Annual Zoological SocIEty Report 2007 Dear members and Donors: A major stride in 2007 was completion of Project: Pachyderms—the Zoo Society’s capital campaign begun in 2005 in support of the Zoo’s Watani Grasslands Reserve expansion. By the end of 2007, you exceeded the project’s $7 million goal and construction was nearly complete on one of the finest African grassland exhibits anywhere. In support of Watani Grasslands Reserve and much more, the Zoo Society transferred $10,649,769 to the Zoo from 2006 through 2007—a two-year record. In 2007 alone, you transferred $5,131,574 through the Society to the Zoo. Strong private sector support highlights the Zoo’s importance to North Carolinians. So the Zoo Society took a new step in 2007— we dedicated the resources necessary for a permanent, energetic presence in Raleigh to educate legislators about the Zoo’s needs and value to North Carolina. Our goal was to encourage lawmakers to share your enthusiasm and emulate your financial support for the state Zoo. Lawmakers responded, and the State provided $3,456,000 in long-absent capital funding. This state appropriation added to traditional transfers means that our combined efforts brought $8,587,854 to the Zoo in 2007. Walking its traditional path of contributions and operations, the Zoo Society netted $3,500,913 for the Zoo in 2007. While this is near of the average for the past 10 years, gift shop sales and Zoo To Do (dinner/dance/auction) both achieved record highs, corporate membership and annual giving increased significantly over 2006, and the Zoo Society ended the year with more members than at the end of any previous year. You stepped up with new facilities and exhibits, animal care and educational pro- grams as well as green initiatives such as the Solar Pointe solar-powered picnic pavilion and planning for a constructed wetland at the Zoo. A long-term Society project—Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park—achieved 501 (c) 3 nonprofit status in 2007, creating a new partner in our efforts to “save a piece of the world for its wildlife.” These accomplishments, along with other vital programs such as elephant tracking in Cameroon and the Valerie H. Schindler Wildlife Rehabilitation Center for the care of injured and orphaned North Carolina animals, were all possible because of you. We are grateful for your support and always take great care to earn the trust you place in us. In 2007 the Zoo Society received a 4-Star ranking (the highest possible) from Charity Navigator, an independent organization that rates the nation’s charities on the way that they manage your funds. Thank you for all you’ve done do help “save a piece of the world for its wildlife.” We will continue to dedicate ourselves to earning your trust every day as we step together toward the new territory ahead of us. Sincerely, Russell H. Williams Executive Director new TErritory In 2007, the Zoo Society entered new territory in support of the Zoo. Not only did we transfer $5,131,574 to the Zoo and set a two-year record for transfers at $10,649,769, the Zoo Society also initiated a new legislative advocacy program that resulted in $3,456,000 in State appropriations for Zoo capital expansion projects—the first significant State appropriations in fifteen years. With traditional transfers and State appropriations combined, Zoo Society efforts brought $8,587,574 to the Zoo in 2007—a record by any measure and more than three times the average of the previous ten years. (See chart p.9) The bulk of 2007 transfers supported capital projects such as the Zoo’s elephant and rhino expansion. Transfers also supported conservation outreach, animals, education, marketing, art and more. Virtually all of these funds came through the generosity of private donors, corporations and foundations. With private donors carrying so much of the weight for Zoo capital expansion for so long, the Zoo Society added a new method to its existing programs in 2007 to raise money for the Zoo. Legislative Action Results in Zoo Funding In 2007, the Zoo Society asked External Affairs Director, Kathy Bull, to expand her community outreach from corporations and community leaders to legislators. This marked the first time that the Zoo Society designated a staff person to lobby the state legislature concerning the Zoo’s capital needs and provide legislators with a knowledgeable and easily accessible authority to explain the rationale and potential benefits of Zoo funding these needs. Kathy, with support from Society members and Zoo and Society staff and volunteers, met regularly with state Senators and Representatives, keeping them abreast of Zoo programs and of the positive impact that these programs have on the state and its citizens. Kathy arrived in Raleigh with the goal of securing $3.456 million in capital funding from the State. This funding would allow the Zoo to build a barn for the animals living on the Zoo’s African Plains and construct a much-needed work and storage area for the Zoo’s horticultural staff. The barns would improve the care the Zoo offers to the 40 antelope already living on the African Plains—particularly those animals sensitive to weather conditions. The barns would also position the Zoo to bring in additional antelope species. With the new barn, the Plains exhibit could support fragile newborns and family groups of antelopes that would live, look and behave much like the antelope herds that teem across Africa’s expansive grasslands and savannas. As part of the effort to secure financial support for the Zoo, Kathy also undertook the important task of educating state legislators about the broad and deep commit- ment North Carolina’s citizens hold for their Zoo. This bond revealed itself when the N.C. Zoo Society asked its members to e-mail or write their legislators in support of the Zoo funding request. The response was amazing. More than 1,200 Society members responded by contacting their legislators within just a few days! The Zoo Society Board and Zoo Council added to this effort by visiting Raleigh and going with Kathy to walk the halls of the legislature to speak with the State’s most important decision makers. These combined efforts built stronger relationships between the Zoo and the legislature by acquainting its members with the profound cultural and economic bene- fits the Zoo provides its many friends and its State. The results were spectacular. The General Assembly included $3.456 million in the 2007 capital budget for the N.C. Zoo. The Zoo Society’s expanded fund development efforts were successful thanks to its strong leadership, its committed members and a responsive State legislature! ANNUAL REPORT 2007 1 Greener TErritory Constructed Wetland The Zoo finalized plans in 2007 to construct a wetland area near the North America entrance. The wetland, to be constructed in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Transportation, will be located adjacent to an 11-acre lake and associated picnic area. The Zoo Society will fund construction of an observation deck and group catering deck. Educational graphics at the site will explain the water qual- ity benefits of wetlands to both individual visitors and school groups. What’s more, the wetland will improve storm water runoff and water quality at the Zoo. Power of the Sun By the end of 2007, the Zoo completed construction on the largest solar power project in North Carolina—Solar Pointe. Funded through a partnership between the Zoo Society, N.C. Zoo, Car- olina Solar Energy and Randolph Electric Membership Corporation, the Solar Pointe picnic pavilions provide covered catering space for Zoo visitors. The facility will generate the energy used by 11 to 13 average North Carolina homes per year. Educational graphics include a monitor connected to a Web site that shows a live readout of the actual energy being generated. Trees Big and Rare In November 2007, the North Carolina Division of Forest resources certified that a Pignut Hickory tree (Carya glabra) at the N.C. Zoo qualified as a Champion Tree in the North Carolina Big Tree Program. The 106-foot high hickory tree has a circumference of 126 inches and an average crown spread of 77 feet, making it the largest Pignut Hickory in the state. Also in November, N.C. Zoo Horticulturists joined members of Trees Asheboro and Quality Forward (a volunteer organization based in Asheville), to plant six rare American Chestnut trees in Montford Park in downtown Asheville. The Zoo had been cultivating the trees since receiving pure American Chestnut seeds from the American Chest- nut Foundation in 2005. American Chestnuts once thrived in the Eastern United States from Maine to northern Florida and were among the largest trees in the east with diameters of more than 60 inches and heights of more than 100 feet. Early in the 20th century a lethal fungus, known as chestnut blight, was imported into the United States on Asian chestnut trees. By 1950 almost all of the 4 billion American Chestnut trees that once covered more than 9 mil- lion acres were dead. N.C. Zoo cultivation is an important part of the effort to save and restore this magnificent species. The Zoo Horticulture Division’s efforts on behalf of the American Chestnut earned first place honors for the 2007 N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Sustain- ability Awards. In 2007, the Zoo Society transferred $70,293 to the Zoo for horticulture. 2 North Carolina Zoological Society new TErritory at the Zoo Exhibits Watani Grasslands Reserve By the end of 2007, the Zoo had nearly completed construction on the new Watani Grasslands Reserve exhibit area — a 37-acre space with a 7-acre elephant habitat, 30-acre African Plains exhibit with rhinos and antelope, a 12,000-square-foot elephant holding barn and other new and improved facilities.
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