IPPc Membership Form

Become a Member of The Illinois Prairie Path
a not-for-profit Corporation

The Illinois Prairie Path Corporation is a private not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation which is financially funded solely from donations made by its members. Members recieve the IPPc newsletter and one multi-colored IPPc trailmap. In addition, tax-deductible contributions will be used by the PATH's all-volunteer board of directors to:

• Preserve, restore, and re-establish prairies along the trail. The IPPc spends thousands of dollars each year towards this effort alone.
• Preserve Open Space. Our successful effort to protect the 8.3 acres adjacent to the Path near Glen Ellyn is one example.
• Sponsor Eagle Scout projects to construct amenities along the Path. Many of the guardrails over streams, new benches, and erosion control barriers were installed, replaced or repaired this way.
• Place and maintain trash containers and a comfort station along the trail.
• Install and repair display cases, mile markers and benches.
• Coordinate trail cleanups. 1,000 volunteers help with the Path's sponsored annual Earth Day cleanup each April.
• Support trails. The IPPc makes annual donations to the Conservation Foundation Trails Project and the Illinois Trails Conservancy.
• Work with municipalities, counties, and the State of Illinois to promote trail safety awareness and improvements.
• Assisted Maywood and Forest Park with the completion of the new Des Plaines River bridge and Main Stem extension.
• Help to develop the recently revised DuPage County Trail Maintenance Policy, protecting the natural beauty of the Trail system.

To become a member (and get the new $6.00 color map free) mail the following application, and your check made payable to ILLINOIS PRAIRIE PATH, to the following address:

Illinois Prairie Path
P.O. Box 1086
Wheaton, IL 60187

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                 PRAIRIE PATH MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

 ____ I am applying for new membership

 ____ I am renewing my membership

 ____ This is a gift membership from______________________________________


 __ Society.....$1000    __ Patron.......$100    __ Organization.......$50
 __ Lifetime.....$500    __ Sustaining....$75    __ Family.............$30
 __ Donor........$250    __ Supporting....$50    __ Individual.........$20


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        for our internal records only. This will not be 
        released or sold to any other outside party.

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