Residential environmental learning and conference center

Click here for current weather conditions right here at the Audubon Center
(observations from our on-site NOAA climate station)

Weather Forecast | Weather Maps

Help Support the Audubon Center

Support us and make our mission your own!

Scholarship Donations

Planned Giving

Why Become a Member?

The Audubon Center was created in 1968 by a wonderful bequest and has grown to become a major education and environmental organization.

Here are some highlights:

Over 65 schools in attendance.

The Center is accredited by
North Central Association of
Colleges and Schools.

Field Campus for Northland College

Field Campus for Hamline University teacher training

Field Campus for Inver Hills
Community College

Certified Land Management

Wetland restoration

Prairie restoration

Wildlife care

Residential programs

Dinners, lectures and concerts

All membership benefits include an eNewsletter, three mailed newsletters, a 10% discount in our Nature Center store, and invitations to special events! All donations are tax-deductible.

Are you already a member?

Audubon Center of the North Woods Gift Memberships make terrific gifts for birthdays, graduations, weddings—any occasion! Gift membership recipients will enjoy a year of exciting benefits, while helping to promote respect for nature through our programs, in addition to knowing that your gift means increased support for our efforts.

To make a donation to the Audubon Center in any amount, you can us at 888-404-7743, email us at audubon1@audubon-center.org or write us PO Box 530 Sandstone, MN 55072

In-Kind Donations

If you have any equipment you no longer need that could help the center? If so, please contact us at audubon1@audubon-center.org or call at 1-888-404-7743. Your donations are priced at fair-market valuable and tax-deductible.

We appreciate donations of office equipment, recreational games and sports equipment, various tools and maintenance equipment are always appreciated. Our wildlife barn can always use food to feed our raptors (please call first), as well as medium sized pet carriers. Bicycles are always appreciated, as they are used by our interns and some participants as a mode of transportation around the Center's grounds.

The Audubon Center is a member of the Cars With Heart Program! Do you have a van, car, truck, snowmobile, camper, or boat you don't need anymore? Consider donating it to the Audubon Center! Through the Cars With Heart Program, your older vehicle can be worth more to you as a donation than if you traded it in! The is a great way to support the Audubon Center's education programs while get the most value out of your old vehicle. For more details, contact us: 888-404-7743 or audubon1@audubon-center.org

Memorial Donations

If you would like to make a memorial gift on behalf someone you loved and respected, the center is honored to be the recipient. There are many forms of memorials - here are some examples:

General memorial gifts, often announced with the obituary;

Send to the Audubon Center with the memorial notes

The person sending the memorial is sent a thank you letter from the center

The family for whom the memorial is made receives a notification of all gifts from the center

All memorials are listed in the center's printed newsletter

These gifts will be added to the scholarship funds at the center that are managed by the Minnesota Foundation and earnings from the accumulated revenue is used for scholarships.

All gifts are tax deductible.

Memorials over $5,000 will result in one of the dorm rooms being named in that persons honor

Art work, benches, and other permanent structures can be accepted as memorials if they fit the center's design and plans and must be approved in advance.

Scholarship Donations

Smaller donations to the existing center scholarship funds are accepted at any time and should be designated for that purpose by the donor.

Separate scholarships funds in a person, family, or business name can be established with gifts of $10,000 or more

These funds will be held and managed by the Minnesota Foundation for the Audubon Center

All gifts are tax deductible

Proceeds are based on the value of the fund and are equal to 5% of the fund balance. Any excess earnings are reinvested in the fund to grow the balance

Planned Giving

For information and details regarding bequests or life income giving options, please contact the Center. The Center works with the Minnesota Community Foundation for these options.

To make a donation to the Audubon Center in any way or for any amount, you can call us at 888-404-7743, email us at audubon1@audubon-center.org or write us PO Box 530 Sandstone, MN 55072

Our Mission:
To protect, improve and promote the enjoyment of the
natural environment through formal and informal
education programs and research; to assist and encourage
environmental education programs, centers, and careers.

Our Vision:
The environment is the blackboard for the Center's educational programs; the common ground that brings us together with the natural world and people from around the globe to share our concerns for one another and the future. It is through positive and shared experience that we hope we can affect the values and actions of our people to create a world of harmonious diversity.