Our residents always need food (both fresh fruit and vegetables and treats) and items which they can use as toys and educational materials for enrichment. 

And of course the Center for Great Apes can always use cash and in-kind donations.

Thank you for helping!

For the apes:

Kitchen Enrichment

• Ensure or Boost

• Brown paper lunch bags

• Condiments- BBQ sauce, dressing, relish, etc (low/no fat, salt, sugar)

• Olive oil to spray on dry feet and hands  

• Supplies to create enrichment

• Paper cups (8oz)

• Whole Nuts in shell

• Pedialyte

• Gatorade or other sports drinks (bottles or powder mix)

• Enrichment toys- Looky Lou, The Tire, Feeder Tubes, Foraging trays, and more... 

• Peanut butter

• Boomer Balls, Cylinders, Blocks, etc

• Applesauce (unsweetened)

• Dried fruit (Raisins, berries etc.)

• Baby food (any flavor)  

• Rice, oats, grains, nuts, & low sugar cereals.

• Coconuts- Christopher's favorite!

• Garlic powder, cinnamon, or other spices

• Lowfat, low-salt microwave or regular popcorn  

• Laser Pointers

Toys, Enrichment, & blankets

• Heavy Plastic toys- Little Tikes and Playskool  

• Plastic hard hats

• Sprinklers- garden & children's

• Paintbrushes

• Blankets- Polar Fleece

• Adding machine or register tape

• Hairbrushes, no staples in bristles

• Kong toys ( or other sturdy dog toys)

• Used Fire hose (from fire department)

• Unused socks, bandanas, or garden gloves

• Butcher, computer, or wrapping paper

• Gift Cards to Wal-Mart or Toys R Us

• Active Minds Enrichment Gear

• Sanctuary Supplies - enrichment items

• Enrichment toys - Safari Ball, Tug-n-Toss Ball, Jolly Ball, Stall Apple, and more... 

• Professional sports misters (as used on sidelines at football games)

• Televisions with DVD players

• Bags or block ice for summer enrichment

• Wind chimes, wind socks, or other "wind" lawn ornaments or flags

• Bird Houses and Bat houses

• Carpet or rug samples

• Woodwool (Excelsior)

• Burlap or canvas bags (coffee bean type)

• Squirt or spray bottles

• **Most important – Contributions to Endowment Fund for future care of the sanctuary apes

Equipment for Health Center:  

• Portable X-Ray equipment  

• Finger & toe nail clippers

• Gram Stain

• Lugols Iodine Stain

• Microscope Lens Cleaner

• Microscope Lens Paper

• Bottled Distilled Water

For the office:

• Postage stamps – any value  

• Phone Cards - any value 

• Recordable and rewritable CDs & DVD's

• Ink cartridges for– HP Color LazerJet 4730mfp

• A, AA, C, & D Batteries  

• White 110# cardstock

• Copier paper, laser printing paper

• Multi-purpose 20# copy paper

• Bright-white 24# photo paper

• Paper 20# & 110# various colors

• Sharpie Markers

• Scissors

• Plain, White #10 envelopes

• Clear packing tape

• Gift Cards to OfficeMax or Office Depot

• Avery® 5160 labels for mailing newsletters  

For Cleaning, Maintenance and Grounds work:

• Pitchforks, shovels

• Branch clippers for cutting browse

• Hedge Rakes

• Brooms & Mops

• Biodegradable laundry soap

• Baby Wipes & Anti-bacterial hand-gel

• Paper Towels & Toilet paper

• Dish & Hand soap and dishwasher detergent

• 4, 6, 8, or 10-foot FiberGlass Ladders

• Heavy-duty garden hoses

• Wheelbarrows 

• Flood light bulbs and 60W, 75W, & 100W bulbs

• Bleach

• 13, 30, 45, & 55 Gallon trash bags

• Gift Cards to Home Depot or Lowe's

• Simple Green® Cleaner 

• Extension Cords (any length)

• Holy Cow Degreaser & Ranch Cleaner

• 4' hedge rakes and Scoopers (3’)

• Shaklee® Basic G & Basic H Disinfectant & Cleaner

• Galvanizing spray

Special Gifts:

• Commercial Washers and Dryers 

• Golf cart, golf cart batteries, & tires

• Vacuum cleaner

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