Now, go to your companies Human Resource Department, Marketing Manager or person in charge of corporate giving with your donation receipt and company matching gift form and ask them to have your company sign up to match your donation to The Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy. The volunteer must bring battery powered lanterns.
There is an outhouse behind the quarters. This water needs to be filtered or boiled. Volunteers pump water from the lake into a tank that gravity feeds to the kitchen. If you donated online, please print off and take with you or e-mail your electronic receipt to your company. The keeper’s quarters is a two-story brick house built in 1929. Type or print your company's name and address into the boxes as well as your name for submitting it. Then, print off a Company Matching Gift form to take with you to your company. Introduced as a fundraising program in 2005, Climb with the Keepers is a unique tour specifically designed for those wishing to experience the historic. First, just donate to the The Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy as you normally would. There's no additional cost to you and these matching gifts provide much needed funds, as we work to fulfill our preservation and educational missions. (Please ask your company if they participate first) How Workplace Matching Gifts Work As part of this program, volunteers stay for a week at a time in the Lighthouse and give tours 7 days a week from 10 am to 4 pm each day. Historically, lighthouse keepers were needed to trim the wicks, replenish fuel, wind clockworks and perform maintenance tasks such as cleaning lenses and windows. There's no additional cost to you and these matching gifts make it easy to support our mission by providing a stable flow of support for our work. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as 'wickies' because of their job trimming the wicks. The goal of the program is to honor the keepers (both.
Volunteers also are responsible for keeping the shoreline clean. Many companies, both big and small, may double (or sometimes triple) the value of donations made to The Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy by their employees, employees' spouses, or even retirees. The Lighthouse Keeper Grave Marker program was begun in Maine by Tim Harrison of Lighthouse Digest. The Keepers of Burnt Island Light in Boothbay Harbor use volunteers for their Living Lighthouse Program volunteers act out the roles of a former lighthouse keeper and his family, describing what life was like on the island without electricity, running water or refrigeration.
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