Protecting the planet takes more than appreciating the places we love.
It takes people willing to defend clean air, clean water, wildlife, public lands, and a stable climate.
For more than 130 years, Sierra Club has brought people together to advocate for environmental protection and help communities take action on some of the biggest environmental challenges facing the planet.
Want to be part of that work?
Here are 6 ways your donation to Sierra Club can help make a difference.
1. Help Protect Public Lands
Forests, mountains, deserts, coastlines, and other natural spaces face pressures from development, pollution, and environmental degradation.
Sierra Club works to defend public lands and the ecosystems that depend on them.
Supporting this work can help protect natural places for wildlife, communities, and future generations.
Support: Public Lands
2. Help Protect Wildlife & Habitats
Protecting wildlife also means protecting the places animals depend on.
Sierra Club's environmental work includes efforts to protect and restore habitats and defend ecosystems from damaging activities.
Support: Wildlife & Habitats
3. Support Clean Air & Water
Healthy communities depend on access to clean air and clean water.
Sierra Club campaigns around environmental protections that affect the land, air, and water people and wildlife rely on.
Support: Clean Air • Clean Water
4. Help Fight the Climate Crisis
Climate change affects communities, ecosystems, wildlife, and the places people call home.
Sierra Club advocates for climate action, including clean energy, renewable energy, lower carbon emissions, and policies designed to address climate change.
Support: Climate Action
5. Strengthen Grassroots Environmental Actio
Environmental change often starts with people working together.
Sierra Club is a grassroots environmental organization, bringing together activists and volunteers to advocate for environmental protections.
Donations can support organizing and advocacy efforts that help communities make their voices heard.
People → Communities → Action → Change
Support: Grassroots Action
6. Help Turn Environmental Advocacy Into Action
Sierra Club uses tools including organizing, lobbying, advocacy, and litigation to pursue environmental protections.
That means a contribution can become part of work that goes beyond awareness and supports efforts to influence policies and defend environmental protections.
Support: Environmental Advocacy
One Donation Can Support a Bigger Movement
A contribution to Sierra Club isn't limited to protecting one forest, one species, or one community.
It can become part of a broader movement working across interconnected environmental issues.
Climate • Wildlife • Public Lands • Clean Air • Clean Water • Communities
Sierra Club states that 86¢ of every donated dollar goes toward implementing conservation programs, including work such as habitat protection and restoration, environmental justice advocacy, and litigation.
Help Protect the Places We All Depend On
From protecting wildlife and public lands to advancing climate action and defending clean air and water, Sierra Club works across environmental issues that affect both people and the planet.
Your contribution can help support the organizing, advocacy, conservation programs, and other work behind those efforts.
Support Sierra Club
Help protect the planet today — and help build a healthier future for the generations that follow.