How To Help

Public support is essential to our mission here at HMN and you can help us by donating your time and/or money. All donations of time and money are greatly appreciated.

Volunteer: The Hummingbird Monitoring Network would not exist without the dedicated help of volunteers, scientists, and citizens like you. If you would like to volunteer on a project, we suggest that you visit one of our public monitoring sites and talk with one of HMN's citizen scientists or scientists. They will be able to identify the best person for you to contact. Or please send a letter of inquiry to:

Hummingbird Monitoring Network
PO Box 115
Patagonia, AZ 85624

or write an email to the executive director, Susan Wethington at: swething@dakotacom.net.

Donate: Perhaps, you are unable to dedicate your valuable time to our cause but still wish to help by donating to us financially. HMN's promise to you is that we will minimize the organization's administrative costs and maximize the funds spent directly on our projects. In the event that the selected project is completely funded, HMN reserves the right to use donations for other projects.

We give you the option of choosing how we spend your money by allowing you to identify a specific project, or geographic region towards which your donation will be applied. If you are unsure where your donation will help the most, please donate to our general fund. If you do not wish to donate using PayPal, please just send a check to the address above and make a note on the check telling us which activity in the list below you would like to support.

General Fund - provides operating funds and support for new/existing projects. Your choice allows HMN to develop, expand, and focus funds on projects that may need more support.
Education - provides funds to continue and expand HMN's public outreach and education work, such as HMN's online information guide.
Monitoring - provides funds to the monitoring program but does not restrict the funds to be used in a specific region and allows HMN to expandto other regions where there are important breeding and migration areas for hummingbirds
Monitoring in Arizona
Monitoring in California
Monitoring in Central California
Monitoring in British Columbia
Monitoring in Mexico
Preservation - provides HMN the ability to expand preservation work to other regions and to help preserve other endangered hummingbird species
Preservation work in Ecuador's Colonche Hills - funds projects needed to protect the Esmeraldas Woodstar and other animals living in the Woodstar's habitat.
Research - provides funds for expanding HMN's research program and supporting student research