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diverse as the forest products industry and the Audubon Society, the International Brotherhood <br /> of Electrical Workers and the Forest Service. <br /> Along with broadening the management base, the Lane County Audubon Society is contribut- <br /> ing architectural /ADA /planning expertise and a membership base. <br /> Resources. Although no fund - raising can be initiated until the site is contracted, current plans <br /> include the following: <br /> direct mail solicitations for funds, materials, services to be included in mailings of <br /> local conservation groups (Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, Audubon) and other <br /> organizations with membership bases likely to be interested (Natural History Museum, <br /> WISTEC), as well as mailings to the hundreds of people whose lives have been <br /> touched by CRCC over recent years <br /> development of a 'charter member' program among the thousands of people visiting <br /> educational displays at summer events such as Art and the Vineyard, the Lane County <br /> Fair, and Eugene Celebration <br /> a media campaign utilizing radio and television personalities <br /> service club and business presentations (e.g., Rotary, Kiwanis) designed around <br /> building individual display cages: a "Corporate Cage Campaign" <br /> a combination art auction, benefit concert, wine - tasting event <br /> - extensive grant - writing through both foundations and government sources <br /> - personal solicitation of major individual donors <br /> - Adopt -a -Bird program to support individuals among the education birds <br /> Seed money is available for these campaigns. To build the Interpretive Center, develop the <br /> paths, educational programs, and all the proposed display cages to the standards planned will <br /> take an estimated five years. Our goal is to raise $500,000; where cash needs are met <br /> through donated materials and services, the funds will be converted to an endowment account <br /> for on -going operations of the facility. <br /> III. TERMS OF PROPOSAL <br /> The site, as is, is a workable rehabilitation facility and caretaker's residence. It is proposed <br /> that the lease agreement start on the basis of a residential /rehabilitation site, with a timeline <br /> that a portion will be open to the public within a year, with further areas to be developed <br /> annually thereafter; those developments delineated in this proposal to be accomplished within <br /> five years; with an overall lease term of a minimum of 25 years. <br /> As with other non -profit organizations utilizing city property (i.e., WISTEC, Willamette <br /> Wildlife), CRCC proposes a zero or nominal monthly or annual rent, exchanging property <br /> Cascades Raptor Care Center Proposal 8 <br />