Carly Lare
Executive Director
CRC’s Executive Director Carly Lare’s resume includes a long list of honors, leadership and community service awards, all preparing her well for her work at CRC. She graduated this spring from West Chester University’s Honors College with an Ecology and Conservation Biology Degree and minors in Civic and Professional Leadership and Communication Studies.
“I started out interested in marine biology and I love the coast,” she says. “CRC is a great opportunity -- it brings together the health of our fresh water with the health of the ocean.”
Growing up in Royersford, PA, Carly loved the outdoors and playing sports. “The sports got me outdoors which was great,” she says. “My love of nature followed.” Her honors during college at West Chester University are too varied to include in full, but we’ll mention a few: a near 4.0 from the Honors College, Tribeta National Biological Honors Society member, and an Honors Community Leadership and Service Excellence Scholarship Award. She grew to love working with nonprofits through her working in helping to raise money for a South African organization dedicated to fundraising for impoverished areas impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Carly started with CRC while still in college in 2019 as a grant management intern, learning a lot about the organization and the funding process. Among other projects, she helped secure a McClean Contributionship for CRC, researched funding opportunities, and helped with events and plantings. In addition to her funding and grants work, she is also trying to map local watersheds so they can be included on CRC’s web site with the planting and streams cleanup sites.
Carly enjoys CRC’s diverse constituent base.
“I like working with the different types of people at CRC,” she says. “From board members to staff to funders to volunteers, everyone comes for a unique reason – all the reasons lead back to the environment, but in different ways.”