How Children's Nature Retreat Animals Can Help with Depression Depression is a widespread problem in the US, especially with the pandemic that took over 2020. Fortunately, there are ways to make people feel better. For example, the simple fact of being around animals can help lower people’s depression. This blog [...]
Children's Nature Retreat vs. San Diego Zoo There's nothing quite as fun and memorable as taking the family out to see some wild animals! While most people have heard of the San Diego Zoo, there are many opportunities at the Children's Nature Retreat that they may not know about! While they [...]
How to Teach About Animals and Responsibility Without Physical Animals One does not have to have a physical animal to be able to teach kids about them! There are many different ways to teach about animals and responsibility without pets. This blog will go over a couple of different ways [...]
We're Reopening September 24th! We're excited to announce that we're reopening on Thursday, September 24th! After evacuating over 120 animals, and being spared from the Valley Fire, the ranches and Humane society have helped us bring our animals back. We want to thank the rescue groups, volunteers, homes, ranches, first [...]
Help Feed and Care for Our Animals With the unfortunate circumstances of the COVID-19 outbreak, we had to close our doors to the public. This resulted in us losing 100% of our revenue stream overnight. Without our revenue streams, we won't have enough money to survive. The Children's Nature Retreat [...]
The Retreat: Your Next Fun Team Building Destination With deadlines coming up and an endless stream of projects, work can become overwhelming at times. This is why it's important to take a step back and relax. Children’s Nature Retreat offers an excellent place for fun team building activities that can [...]
Help Us Build a Home for Judy's Little Zoo Judy's Little Zoo The Children's Nature Retreat needs your help to build a home for Judy’s little zoo. Our friend Judy is turning 80 this year and moving into a smaller property and needs to find a forever home for her [...]
Support CNRF while Shopping on Amazon What is Amazon Smile? AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to [...]
Volunteer Program Volunteers play an integral role by: Helping guests learn about the animals Assisting with the delivery of educational programs Staffing special events Helping with maintenance Assisting the keepers with animal care (not inside the enclosures) Children’s Nature Retreat seeks and selects people for our volunteer program who are: Genuinely [...]
Planned Giving to the Children’s Nature Retreat Foundation (CNRF) Bequest in a Will or Trust A bequest – a gift through your will or living trust – is the most common method of deferred charitable giving. Through a bequest, you can direct specific assets, your entire estate or a percentage [...]
