Save Rainforest
Make a difference! Join thousands of students and teachers who are raising funds to purchase and protect threatened rainforest. Our Big Gift 2010 site is the El Pangan rainforest in the Colombian Chocó—the wettest forest in the world, site of tremendous biological diversity, and an environmental hotspot that will disappear without out help. A $50 donation saves an acre and offsets 66,000 pounds of carbon pollution in the U.S.
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Earth Banks & More
It’s easy! Inspire and empower children by enlisting them in the easiest coin drive ever. Free Earth banks are easy to use for school, club, or neighborhood fundraising. Each Earth Bank kit comes with 25 banks, 25 copies of a short not to parents, complete instructions, and our fun, Biggest Tree in the World incentive to inspire student participation. It’s as simple as 1-2-3! Supplies are limited. Request your kit now!
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Give by Learning
The no-fundraising way to save threatened rainforest and other precious habitat! Our Science Symposiums for grades 4-9 are challenging mini-units that supercharge math and science. Engage your students with the issues that interest them most, boost their science and math skills and empower them to make a real-world difference. EDSS triggers a matching donation from our conservation partners that costs you nothing.
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Big Gift Conservation: 4 Ways
Save rainforest, protect sea turtles, support African elephant conservation. Big Gift 2010 will purchase and protect El Pangan, critical habitat for threatened species in the Colombian Choco. Or help us protect leatherback sea turtles in Costa Rica and elephants in Tanzania, West Africa. Choose from a variety of fundraising activities or check out our “no-fundraising” alternative—a great science and math activity for upper elementary and middle school classes.
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Protect Sea Turtles
Yes! There’s still time to help save the last population of leatherback sea turtles in the Eastern Pacific. Although their nesting beach is threatened and their population has plummeted, these critically endangered sea turtles are hanging on. Make a Big Gift donation to protect mothers, eggs and hatchlings in the next nesting season.
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Good Green Things
Hats, bracelets, butterflies and more. Good Green Things help Earth’s Birthday Project protect threatened habitat and endangered species. Our Good Green Hat is a warm addition to anyone’s winter wardrobe, soft and cozy, made of recycled soda bottles by a fair-trade women’s organization. And it costs only $14.95!
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Big Gift Honor Roll
Thank you! In 2008, Big Gift to the Earth protected habitat for African elephants, critically endangered sea turtles, and orangutans. Your donations added up to $170,630, and a generous gift from the African Wildlife Foundation to match student participation in Big Gift educational activities brought the total to $510,870!
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Big Gift History 1989-2009
Students and teachers have raised $6,850,000 to purchase and protect almost 400,000 acres of threatened habitat around the world, including enough rainforest to offset 18 billion pounds of carbon pollution in the U.S. Big Gift conservation continues to protect endangered species, support local communities and combat global warming.
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