While the Center's main building is closed to the public due to renovations, the Lloyd Center offices are open. Enjoy our walking trails, open free to the public from dawn to dusk.
Please Consider Giving to the Lloyd Center's 2026 Annual Appeal!
Help protect the places we love.
There are places that become part of who we are: a familiar set of earthen stairs down into the forest, the quiet edge of a salt marsh, an osprey soaring overhead, while fish jump at the estuary’s edge. These places connect us to something larger than ourselves and remind us of our responsibility to protect it.
For more than four decades, the Lloyd Center has helped people of all ages understand, appreciate, and protect the extraordinary coastal ecosystems of southeastern New England through environmental education, scientific research, and community outreach.
But none of this happens without you.
Your support makes it possible for more than 12,000 students annually to step outside the classroom and discover nature firsthand. Your generosity supports scientific research that helps protect vulnerable species and habitats and provides families and community members with meaningful opportunities to learn about the environment around them. As climate change, habitat loss, pollution, environmental funding cuts, and declining biodiversity place increasing pressure on our natural environment, the work of the Lloyd Center is more important than ever.
We are asking you to make a gift today to help sustain our work.
Please join us with a year-end gift to the Lloyd Center. Together, we can protect the places that sustain us, inspire the next generation of environmental stewards, and carry forward a legacy of respect and care for the natural world.
Thank you for believing in the Lloyd Center and supporting our important work!
P.S. Every gift, regardless of size, makes a difference. Please consider making your contribution today.
Many thanks to those who have already made an Annual Appeal donation!
About The Lloyd Center
The Lloyd Center serves individuals, agencies, and organizations in southeastern New England – Rhode Island to Boston to Cape Cod. It is the only area organization focused on educating the public about coastal and watershed issues, and conducting research on coastal ecosystems and endangered species.
The Center cooperates on a broader level in coastal, environmental, and educational programming throughout New England, nationally and internationally.
Our school-based activities further expand our reach to urban audiences. A scholarship program also provides space for ten urban New Bedford students in our Summer Program.
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