About Earth Gives

Compounding interest in climate action.

Earth Gives Day was developed to serve as a "one-stop" platform to catalyze greater impact by and through 501c3 environmental, climate, and climate justice organizations that day in and day out do critical work in your small town, your urban core, out on the lakes and oceans, among the rolling grasslands, and in your favorite national park. Yet they do so working at a disadvantage.

Only 2% of all giving goes to environmental organizations.

It's just not enough to take on the most consequential issue of our time. So we invite you to become an "Earth Giver." That means shifting some of your generosity and engagement toward the committed efforts of these small teams, volunteers and advocates who roll up their sleeves every day on our behalf. Earth Gives, also a 501c3 organization, is tapping into the successes of giving days, which have rallied communities to drive attention, resources, and needed support towards a variety of nonprofit organizations. 

Earth Gives Day is the first single issue nationwide giving day, set for Tuesday, October 1, 2024.

This 24-hour catalyzing event builds its momentum with early giving starting September 6, 2024.

After a small proof-of-concept in 2021, we continue to work to leverage this showcase of diverse mission-driven organizations doing important work. It's a place to inspire more investment, and therefore more scale, through a time-constrained, highly publicized, highly inspired effort. Central to Earth Gives and our giving day model is thoughtful storytelling and community building. Only together, is more possible - for those near to us and on the other side of the globe.

We invite you to come co-create this initiative with us. Like you, we are "roll up your sleeves" changemakers, boundary breakers, adventurers, seekers, science lovers, fascinated with facts, yet lead with heart.

• We are nonprofit founders and executives. We care about ESGs and SDGs and even pushing beyond currently established frames.
• We have run marketing and PR campaigns, and we have raised money and secured investments.
• We've pushed corporate entities to lead on sustainability with proven results and we've launched giving day campaigns.
• We love statistics and know the value of dollars driven into local organizations with hiking boots on the ground.
• We've scaled high peaks, and snorkeled oceans blue.
• We've tilled the soil, studied ecosystem collapse, and cleaned plastic and trash out of waterways.
• We've gone to court because the bad guy was trying to take our land or pollute our streams.
• We've protested to keep pipelines from crossing our sacred ground, and marched to bring attention to the policies that are harming our kids and compromising our futures.
• We are moms, dads, sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, and citizens of this one special place we called earth.
• We are you and me, he and she, they, them and us.
• We are human residents of our earth, and we seek to co-exist with the living ecosystems we need to save.

Help us shape the eco commons.

Start by inviting your circle, your community, your people to welcome the other "change makers" who need a place to start. All are welcome here.

You can learn more about us as a start-up organization at EarthGives.net and by emailing us at connect@earthgives.org.