Support Us
Donate
The Friends would welcome your financial support in any number of ways.
- Make a donation in memory of a family member or friend.
- Consider a legacy donation with a bequest in a will or living trust, or a charity as beneficiary of your retirement plan or lifetime gifts of cash or securities.
- Donate to the Friends if your Employer or a Business You Patronize Matches Your Contribution
- Contribute funding for major projects or programming.
- Contact our Friends President about ways in which you might wish to donate or with questions you may have about methods of contribution
- Contact president@friendsofharkness.org
All membership fees, gifts, grants, and donations go to restoration and preservation projects as well educational programming for the visiting public. Currently the Greenhouse Restoration is the focus of our capital fundraising efforts.
Become a Member!
The Friends of Harkness is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization that supports one of Connecticut’s most-loved parks. Over 250,000 visitors come to Harkness Memorial State Park annually. The Friends work productively together, on projects large and small, to enhance the Park. Our 30- year advocacy and labors have done much to restore Harkness to its former glory. As we contribute over 12,500 volunteer hours to the Park per annum, we also happily enjoy one another’s company.
Membership Levels
We need your help, as new and renewing members, to continue our decades long work together preserving, promoting and restoring the entire Harkness property. Our ultimate objective is to return the former Eolia estate to its pristine condition when bequeathed in 1950.
The Friends of Harkness are dedicated to safeguarding Harkness in a manner in keeping with the will of Mary Harkness, who so generously donated this magnificent property to the people of Connecticut.
Individual
(Under 65) Includes one vote at the Annual Meeting and free or reduced fee at events.
$35
Senior Individual
(65+) includes one vote at the Annual Meeting and free or reduced fee at events.
$30
Family
Includes two adults, and children under 25 years old. Two votes at the Annual Meeting and free or reduced fee at events.
$50
Senior Couple
Includes two adults, two votes at the Annual Meeting and free or reduced fee at events.
$40
Benefits of being a member include:
- Receiving the Eolian newsletter quarterly
- Invitation to a Members Picnic in August
- Invitation to a Holiday Party in December
- Joining a close community of Friends in play and work
Just a few very recent accomplishments:
- Restoration and pruning of our Heritage Apple Orchard
- Purchase of furnishings for the Mansion’s guest bedrooms and servants’ quarters
- Screening of a new documentary focused on Beatrix Farrand, Harkness’s primary landscape architect
