Virginia Living Museum Animal Aid Club

The Virginia Living Museum supports children who respect animals, especially those indigenous to our state. Our goal, first and foremost, is for children to have fun and enjoy helping the animals that teach us valuable lessons every day at the Museum. Volunteerism at an early age can be rewarding and fun. Each one of us can make a difference, and by working together we can give back to our community.

You help the animals at the Virginia Living Museum!

 

♥ You CAN help the animals at the Virginia Living Museum!

 

1. Choose how you would like to help our animals:

·    Hold a Lemonade Stand/Bake Sale (at home or a business place where you have permission) & donate proceeds

·    Collect Cell Phones/Juice Pouches (recycling keeps millions of juice bags and cell phones out of our landfills!)

·    Collect items from the Museum Wish List

·    Create your own unique fundraiser (pot small plants to sell, make jewelry, sell art)

 

2. Collect donations and return to the VLM anytime:

·    Fill out an Animal Aid Club donation form so we can accurately record your gift to the animals!

 

3. For more information:

VLM Development Office
524 J. Clyde Morris Blvd.
Newport News, VA 23601

(757) 595-1900 x 286

♥ Congratulations to our Summer Animal Helpers!

We are proud to announce our summer 2012 program winners:

 

Most Juice Pouches collected: Travis Mokry

Most Cell Phones collected: Cassidy Hays

 

Most Donations:

1st place: Briana Shackelford (sold original artwork)

2nd place: Dana Morrison (made and sold jewelry and potholders)

3rd place: Anna & Isaac Tucker (bake sale)

 

3,582 Juice Pouches and 94 Cell Phones collected for recycling and kept out of our landfills!

$886.00 was raised for the program to help care and feed our animal friends!

 

♥ Thank you for your interest in helping the VLM animals!

 

The Virginia Living Museum is home to more than 250 species of animals and plants found throughout Virginia including reptiles, mammals, birds and fish. Virginia has 110 species on its Endangered and Threatened List. Six of them can be seen at the Virginia Living Museum: the loggerhead sea turtle, red wolf, shortnose sturgeon, hellbender, bald eagle and canebrake rattlesnake.

 

Proceeds from the AAC support the care and feeding of more than 1,000 animals at the Virginia Living Museum where animal care expenses are approximately $600,000 annually.

 

 

The Virginia Living Museum is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Service designation. Museum financial information is available form the State Office of Consumer Affairs, P.O. Box 1163, Richmond, Virginia 23218. Your donation is deductible to the full extend of the law, consult your tax advisor.

 

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Check out the Animal Aid Club PHOTO GALLERY and view the great work being done by kids! Special thanks to community supporters: Pirate's Cove Miniature Golf,Cinema Cafe, Panera Bread, Portsmouth Museums (Children's Museum), American Indoor Karting, Nauticus,Virginia Zoo, Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, Busch Gardens.