Melinda is the President of Nature Abounds, a national non-profit organization headquartered in Pennsylvania educating and engaging citizens in sustaining their community through environmental stewardship. Nature Abounds launched their first opportunity IceWatch USA in November 2008 and their second opportunity Watch the Wild in March 2009. Nature Abounds is working with EPA and PaDEP to revitalize and expand the Pennsylvania Senior Environment Corps, which lost it's funding in 2007.
Prior to leading Nature Abounds, Melinda was most recently the Volunteer Programs Manager for the National Wildlife Federation, and prior to NWF, she was the National Program Director for the Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement (EASI).
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