Friend —

Planting a seed is how real change starts.

You place a small spark in the soil, and hope it grows. You provide light to it, and care, and do what you can to defend against the threats of blight or plain bad luck.

We do this with the belief that our actions today will make an impact in the days and years to come. We do it with the knowledge that together, we're far more powerful than any one of us could be alone.

Today I'm asking you to plant a seed of change by making a final year-end donation to the Sierra Club. We'll put your gift to work building a healthy and safe future for the special places, animals, and communities that need our protection most.

Give today and your donation will go 5X as far thanks to a matching gift.

Grassroots support like yours is what keeps us fighting strong on all the frontlines where we're needed—restoring places that have been damaged by development and poisoned by pollution, fighting back every step of the way against the expansion of fossil fuels, and organizing local communities to champion cleaner and healthier water and air, to name a few of them.

It takes bold action to push lawmakers to act with the urgency we need to confront the climate crisis. It takes courage to oppose the fossil fuel industry and other powerful forces that threaten our future. It takes substantial infrastructure and people organizing power to deliver on the change that's needed in every corner of the country to confront the climate crisis and safeguard the future for all.

I can't ignore the amount of work and resources it takes to do this, and I won't pretend that progress comes immediately or easily.

But I have met with Sierra Club supporters like you all across the country, and I know how much you care about every acre of forest and every mile of river. I have seen the innovation of scientists and researchers who are finding ways to power our world with clean energy, and of activists who are pulling vulnerable wildlife back from the edge of extinction. I have heard from so many young people who are ready to fight for their future.

Together, we are capable of doing great things—from protecting public lands from development, to nurturing the recovery of endangered wildlife, to accelerating the transition to clean energy. It starts with you.

Please, bring this year to a close with an act of change. Make your donation to the Sierra Club before the deadline and it will go five times as far to help build the healthy, safe future we all deserve.

Thank you for being a part of everything we do.


Ben Jealous
Executive Director
Sierra Club