Support 116 environmental nonprofits!

EarthShare Oregon helps 80 environmental nonprofits connect to people like you.  Most of our donors know our biggest member nonprofits' names: The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and other national groups.  But have you heard of Institute for Applied Ecology? 

Smaller, local charities like IAE provide critical services to our environment -- and also educate our kids about environmentally-friendly living!  Here's a great story from IAE, that shows just how they're helping grow the next crop of low-impact Oregonians!

Institute for Applied Ecology (Corvallis): 
"On one of our field trips this year, there was a little girl who REALLY didn't want to get dirty.  To her, mud was one big 'ewwww!'  One mucky, muddy day in February changed that.  The education folks from IAE took her class on a Field Planting Day to a wetland prairie, where the kids would plant the plants they'd grown in the greenhouse for months. The kids ran through the mud to find their plantin spot, except for the little girl who tiptoed across the mud to find the least gooey place.  She put on her gloves and gingerly dug with her trowel.  Hours of planting passed when the sun finally pierced the clouds.  The kids went wild -- rain jackets tossed, running, laughing, planting.  The joy was contagious.  In a whirlwind, our mud-hating girl threw her jacket aside, smeared mud under her eyes and up her arms past her elbows.  She smiled, laughed, planted, and loved it.  The day closed with a call to get back on the bus, but not yet for this new nature lover, who cried out:  'No, no, just one more plant!  I just need to get one more plant in the ground!' "  - by Tom Kaye, Executive Director of IAE

EarthShare Oregon giving campaigns at more than 100 workplaces are ramping up this month!  The funds we raise now through the end of 2013 will support programs in our 80 member charities -- 7 of which are new this year!

Did you know you can easily support the great work of groups like:

Beyond Toxics -- $2 per pay period to Beyond Toxics will subsidize five low-income parents to attend an asthma care and green cleaning workshop, where they can earn a Green Cleaning Certificate that adds to their job skills.

Bark – Saved 2,500 Mt. Hood acres from logging & prevented construction of 14 miles of new roads (which pollute nearby streams with erosion runoff).

Columbia Land Trust – Protected 2,755 acres of important habitat and riverfront lands throughout the Columbia River Basin, and restored 15 miles of the Klickitat River to a more natural state.

Institute for Applied Ecology -- Engaged more than 500 students in service-learning annually, and conducted six
plantings of native species or outdoor field trips.

Growing Gardens - $6.25 a pay period builds a garden bed for a disabled and very low-income home gardener who may not otherwise be able to afford fresh food.

McKenzie River Trust -- $5.50 per pay period can buy and protect more than 100 square feet of acreage along a river that will provide clean water for people, fish, and wildlife forever.

Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund -- $2 per paycheck will allow a volunteer canvasser to knock on 24 doors, encouraging pro-environment voters to participate in important elections.

Join EarthShare and our member charities in safeguarding clean water, protecting clean air, creating sustainable jobs, preventing waste, and fighting climate change.  With your help, we can care for the environmental legacy we all share.