Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's crowdfunding campaign our most successful ever! We surged past our goal with 24 hours left to go, and you just kept giving - helping us hit $32,601 - 108% of our $30,000 goal, with over 170 donors.

The Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, known to many as "Camp Cooper," is offering free virtual field trip experiences for students in grades Pre-K - 8. These experiences are grade-specific and tied to Arizona Science Standards. Our virtual field trips are designed to supplement classroom science instruction with interactive and engaging lessons and activities for students.

There has never been a more important time to give what you can to keep the Cooper Center strong, building upon the successes of the recent past, and helping to extend our impact to more students in the years to come.

Many nonprofit organizations in Southern Arizona organizations were forced to cancel fundraising events and programming as a result of COVID-19 and the impact of that lost revenue was significant. Cooper Center is grateful to have received a CFSA Event Relief Grant.

"The messages that Camp Cooper brings to so many kids is so incredibly valuable and important." -Byrd Baylor

University of Arizona College of Education PhD student Kelly Jay Smith looks at the important work environmental education organizations are doing during the pandemic, including Camp Cooper Online.

A Statement from the Staff of the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning

We, the staff of the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, condemn the murders of Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and so many more Black lives because of inhumane and racist actions by police officers and other white individuals. 

As an organization, we have been silent and complicit in perpetuating racism and white supremacy through our actions and our inactions. We are complicit in the deaths of Black women, men, children, queer and trans folx through our inaction and silence. This is unacceptable.