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What you can do
Read why your donation is both important and effective. For U.S.-based donors, contributions to DAPTF are fully deductible for federal income tax purposes, as no gifts or services are provided in return.
Send a check in US dollars, payable to Arizona State University Foundation, to: Dr. James Collins All donations will be acknowledged in writing within a few weeks after receipt. Please include your name and address for these purposes only. Thank you for donating to DAPTF! Putting small donations to good use: how the DAPTF spends its money Although the DAPTF seeks to address amphibian declines in every corner of the world, it operates on a very small budget. While we have been sustained by substantial awards from charitable foundations, we are largely dependent on small donations from individuals. Around 40% of our income is spent in the form of small grants (up to US $2000). We have two grant schemes, our annual Seed Grant program and a Rapid Response Fund. Seed Grants are designed to support novel and innovative research into amphibian declines, with the intention that they will help researchers to obtain further funding from other sources. Our Rapid Response Fund provides immediate economic assistance to researchers who need to investigate mass mortality events and other situations for which any delay would mean an important opportunity being missed. Our Seed Grant programme has grown steadily over the years and, since 1993, we have funded 157 projects in 45 countries. Since 1998, we have supported eight projects through our Rapid Response Fund. Our total outlay on these grants to date is $285,250. Over 80 papers, published in peer-reviewed journals, are the direct result of DAPTF funding. More importantly, some of our Seed Grants have been spectacularly successful in achieving their primary objective, to initiate new research activity. A number of important programs around the world began with support from the DAPTF. The remainder of our funding supports our International Coordinator, who is responsible for our core activities. Since its formation in 1991, the DAPTF has developed an extensive network of over 100 national and regional Working Groups, but we are still actively seeking to initiate more activity in those parts of the world for which information is most lacking, such as Asia and Africa. Our newsletter Froglog is published bi-monthly and issue 67 has just been published. We are planning to use the flexibility afforded by the internet to improve and expand Froglog this year. A measure of the success of our website is that the monthly news update it provides receives over 1700 hits per day. All this activity has been maintained for 14 years on a small and well-managed budget. The DAPTF is a truly community-based organisation, seeking to reach individuals and local groups who are experiencing the amphibian decline phenomenon directly. We are very dependent on the community for support and desperately need small donations from individuals. We strongly believe that we put those donations to very good use. Please donate to the DAPTF and help us to continue our important work; with your support, we can make a difference. Tim Halliday DAPTF website • What you can do about Declining Amphibian Populations • Midwest Frogs Home Page |