you’re invited: 2026 annual dinner
Join Prairie Rivers Network for our Annual Dinner on Friday, October 30 at Pear Tree Estate in Champaign. Spend an evening with us celebrating the combined impact of people coming together to protect water, heal land, and inspire change.
While our team has been hard at work monitoring pesticide drift across the state, addressing the nature gap by connecting people with nature, helping communities understand the impacts of data centers, and much more, our members have been right by our side. You’ll hear directly from the Prairie Rivers Network team about the challenges and successes we’ve faced so far this year, and how your investment in our work deepens our impact for generations to come.
Friday, October 30th from 6-9 pm
Pear Tree Estate | 2150 County Rd 1000E, | Champaign, IL 61822
Tickets: $100/person
Halloween costumes optional!
Your generosity and support of our Annual Dinner helps provide the necessary resources for our team to work with communities across the state to effect real change. We hope you’ll join us at the event—or with a meaningful donation if you’re unable to be there—to help us celebrate our shared accomplishments and invest in the work to come.
RIVER STEWARD AWARD NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
The River Steward Award recognizes and celebrates the important work of an individual whose on-the-ground efforts to protect the state’s rivers and streams inspire us. There are many dedicated volunteers around our state who spend countless hours working to protect Illinois’ rivers. They educate us; they do the legwork; they speak the unpopular truths; they go above and beyond. Prairie Rivers Network wants to recognize the people whose clean water victories inspire our staff and other river advocates around the state.
To nominate a deserving candidate, please send their name, contact information, and a summary of their volunteer efforts to dwalker@prairierivers.org with the subject line “River Steward 2026.”
Would you like to sponsor Prairie Rivers Network?
Prairie Rivers Network invites you to protect water, heal land, and inspire change by becoming a business and community member of Prairie Rivers Network. For more information, please view our Sponsorship Form, or contact Devin Walker at 217.344.2371 or via email at dwalker@prairierivers.org.
Looking Back at Previous Dinners
For more than 20 years, Prairie Rivers Network members, board, and staff have been coming together for the Annual Dinner. As an organization, we are so thankful for the network of individuals that support the work that we do and this dinner has been a place to connect and celebrate with you all. To see pictures from previous dinners, please visit our Flickr account.
