We Can't Succeed WithoutYour Help

Frogs are a very endearing and popular animal and the community relies on us to help these animals - but this is an expensive activity and the money has to come from somewhere. Generally, it does not come from the government because we are too involved in scientific pursuits. We must raise our costs from concerned people like yourselves.

Jun 09: we are donating some items to the Amphibian Research Centre in VIC and we need transport help. If you are a removalist driving a mostly empty truck back to Melb from Cairns, we have about 12 boxes of supplies that need to go.

There are six ways you can help our work:

  1. donating money (we are now tax deductable!) is always the most important one because we have many, many expenses to cover (cash, check/cheque or automatic deposit - see our new page on bank transfers or if you need to use your credit card to make a donation, we have an arrangement with the Amphibian Research Centre to process credit card donations for us - visit their site at www.frogs.org.au/groups)
  2. donate goods or books (see further down this page)
  3. donate services (we often need odd bits done such as carpentry, plumbing, glass work, A/C installation and removal, etc. - we currently need a grant writer who is experienced with govt. grants and we always need people with cars to do pickups; we could also use professional advice on a mix of topics including legal, soil science, marketing, primary school education, toxicology, climate change, genetics, psychology, film production and the functioning of the media industry)
  4. be a member (see our membership page)
  5. be a volunteer (conditions apply! - see our volunteer page)
  6. be an information scout - we don't have time to scour the newspapers and magazines for frog related items and often miss the opportunity to write in a letter to the editor on an issue that needed a reply from the conservation point of view; if you see an item, please tear out the entire page and post it to us at P.O. Box 949, Edmonton, FNQ 4869

Maybe you would rather not sign up for yet another non-profit organisation but you still want to do something to help frogs. Please look through our needs list below. Perhaps there is something in this list you can provide or you might know someone who may be in a position to help. Maybe you have some of these things gathering dust in your garage or perhaps a friend of yours happens to be in the business of manufacturing or selling some of these supplies and would be willing to offer us a nice discount. Every little bit helps!

(Please note: while you can ship just about anything to anywhere, many of the items listed below are for readers in Far North Queensland only. For example, our power supply and plugs are different to anywhere else so electronic items from overseas won't work here, and other items are cheap enough or recycled but the postage to ship them here is far more expensive than the items themselves. If you are overseas and want to send us something from the list below, please contact us first so you don't waste your money and effort.)

Some goods we need are:

  • disposable gloves They should be latex and most of our volunteers use medium size but the occasional box of small or large would be useful. If you work for a retailer, drug company or glove manufacturer, would you consider selling these to us at cost or perhaps donating one case of gloves to us each year?
  • Other items that we purchase are plastic pet tanks, sponges, lemon scented bleach, disinfectant, AA, D, and 6V batteries, and fresh fruit and vege for the bugs we feed to the frogs.
  • Are you in the USA? We need to acquire books on various subjects but the costs of purchasing them from here and shipping is far beyond our ability. Perhaps you would like to purchase and mail a book to us using Amazon.com or another source. Some titles we are interested in are listed here.

You can reduce what goes into landfills by sending us some of these recycleable items:

  • eye droppers
  • cardboard egg cartons and trays
  • four and five litre plastic bottles from purchased distilled and rain water
  • the rectangular Peter's ice cream containers

Is there anything else you are getting rid of that's not on this list? Please contact us - we are used to being creative when it comes to making do (such as taking cracked fish tanks, standing them on their sides, throwing a pretty fabric over the top and using that as a brochure stand) - so we might have a good use for whatever you don't want anymore!

 

Last edited: June 3rd, 2009