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Based in Keystone, Colorado, The Keystone Center is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1975 to ensure that present and future generations approach environmental and scientific dilemmas and disagreements creatively and proactively.

The Keystone Center’s mission today is to equip citizens with deliberative frameworks, democratic processes, analytical information, and critical-thinking skills to navigate tough problems and develop solutions.

Through the Center for Science and Public Policy, the Center for Professional Education and Leadership and Keystone Science School, The Keystone Center positions itself to improve decisions about long-term issues by helping students learn, teachers teach and thought-leaders and decision-makers effectively address technically complex, politically uncertain situations. 

The Keystone Center is headquartered in Keystone, Colorado, with offices in Denver, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Washington, DC.

Contributions to The Keystone Center can enable dialogue development on a politically controversial and scientifically complex issue or allow an economically disadvantaged youth to experience nature and science, for the first time, through guided discovery and research.

Please click here for printable version of pledge card to designate a tax-deductible gift today.

Contributions will create skilled decision-makers in the leaders of today and tomorrow.

You can choose to not accept membership gifts. You may also consider The Keystone Center in your will, trust, life insurance policy or retirement plan. Please print out pledge card with your contribution.

Please contact Ruth Ann at 970-513-5800 if you wish to join the Friends Program.

Thank You for your support.

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Friends Program

Your contribution will create skilled decision-makers in the leaders of today and tomorrow.

$5,000 Mountain Lion | gifts received: two fleece vests

$2,500 Black Bear | gifts received: fleece vest

$1,000 Elk | gifts received: hoodie sweatshirt

$500 Bighorn Sheep | gifts received: two baseball caps or visors

$250 Mountain Goat | gifts received: baseball cap or visor

$150 Snowshoe Hare | gifts received: scat, star or logo t-shirt

$75 Lynx | gifts received: water bottle

$35 Pika | gifts received: carabineer or lanyard

"At Keystone Science School, children see snowshoe hare tracks in fresh snow, squirrel middens where food is stored, Engelmann Spruce in sub-alpine, and the odd noisy crow. They identify avalanche trails and cornices on the ridges of the Continental Divide. They continually shout to each other,
Look at that!
Look at that!"

-Lois Sandusky, teacher, Friends School, Boulder, Colorado

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Message from President