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The Friends of Walden Pond The Friends of Walden Pond Committee will aid and promote management programs and activities jointly developed by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management (the "DEM") and The Thoreau Society for the Walden Pond State Reservation (the "Park"), including public education, environmental conservation, and physical improvements, for which no government funds are available, and will support DEM's mission to balance resource protection and enhancement with public use and enjoyment at Walden Pond (collectively, the "Park Programs and Activities"). The Society will deposit in a separate account any funds specifically donated to or raised by the Society expressly for the Park Program and Activities. The Friends of Walden Pond Committee will advise the Executive Director on the allocation of these funds. The Friends of Walden Pond Committee will allocate to the Park Programs and Activities (x) any funds specifically (a) donated to the Society or (b) raised by the Society, expressly for the Park Programs and Activities, and (y) any volunteer labor specifically volunteered expressly for the Park Programs and Activities. In view of the Society's legal and moral obligations to donors and members who have made and will make contributions to the Society for purposes other than the Park Programs and Activities, questions of whether any sum has been donated to or raised by the Society or the Society's Friends of Walden Pond Committee for the purpose of the Park Programs and Activities, or for another purpose of the Society, shall be made by the Board of Directors of the Society at the Board's sole discretion. In fairness to the DEM, the Board shall make all such decisions in the utmost good faith.
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