Earth Gives

We are protecting the planet for future generations. Earth Gives is a caring community of individuals, families and businesses inspiring generosity to and personal engagement with environmental and climate-focused nonprofits across the U.S. Our signature initiative - Earth Gives Day - invites people from across the country and globe to invest in 501c3 groups on the front lines of air/water/land/forest protection, renewable energy, wildlife, regen ag, climate justice and STEM.

Environmental philanthropy makes up only 2% of all giving. That's just not enough when it comes to the warming of our state here in Arizona and the entire planet. It impacts you, your kids, your families and all living things on earth.

Years after helping start Arizona Gives Day, our founder was inspired by Arizona youth rallying on climate action to think about a giving day for the climate and the environment. When it was discovered how little funding goes to nonprofits doing the work on our behalf, Earth Gives was established to kick off with the only US-wide giving day focused solely on climate, climate justice and the environment. Yet building community is at our core. Rallying individuals like you to learn more, shift some of your giving to environmental stewardship, and find groups where you can partner more deeply to embrace the identity of an "earth giver."

Where you give your resources, your volunteer time, how you determine where to spend your consumer dollars, how you use your voice and your vote are all relevant to protect the future for all of us. Sixty-three percent of Americans expect climate impacts to worsen during their lifetimes, according to Pew Research. Arizona has been identified as one of the key states identified for extreme impacts. Later is too late to protect our homes, our businesses, our families.

Earth Gives' Arizona-based team has trained, learned from and connected with nonprofits across the country. They are protecting the water you drink, the hiking trails and national parks you retreat to on vacation, the ocean you get your fish from, the STEM education your kids benefit from, the fight against pollution we count on to breath freely, the food free of toxic chemicals we expect on our plates, and the shade from a tree we savor during the hot summer months.

Your investment today - be it $20 or $2,000, will be used to expand the community of earth givers we've started building here in Arizona and across the country. Help us "compound interest" with and through these teams of impact makers across the country.

Additional programs include connecting and training other nonprofits across the US through a monthly virtual program called Community Commons. We also host a smaller virtual conversation for women to talk about driving change.

And we're working to connect a variety of entities in Arizona to work together on a composting initiative. Why? Because food going into the landfill gives off methane. Methane is like putting lighting fluid on our heat. A strategic move would be to advance composting across our state, reduce methane, reduce food waste, cut down on water use at landfills, improve our soils, improve our air quality so our kids and elderly can breath easier, and so much more.

How can you help?
Let us seed a few ideas here: general donations will help us build a $300,000 budget; Prize Fund investments - 100% of these dollars will be held to award to nonprofits that rally the most donors/dollars (talk with us if you'd love to focus on a fund for wildlife, STEM; tree plantings, global climate justice work, or some other idea); underwrite our monthly Community Commons programs featuring national experts; invest in our Arizona Composting Collaborative focused on reducing methane and its heat impacts; or consider all kinds of partnerships. Let's ideate together.

With your help, we'll invest in our Arizona team to make this a uniquely State 48 story.

Testimonials

Our organization was able to add more than 40 new donors, which made a huge difference in our impact. -Jack Hason, Run on Climate (Vermont)

"We would be enabled to invest in new programmatic work focused on mitigating climate change impacts on California's ocean and coast, and accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for California." - David Lawlor, director of Philanthropy from the California Ocean Science Trust

We were able to hire two more people to expand our work with Rotarians across the globe as we continue to advance on our newest pillar - environmental sustainability. - Laurie Zuckerman, Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group