This is a pivotal decade for the environment and your support will make a difference.
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As a trusted and nationally-recognized science institution, we help build consensus to support environmental decision making and policy outcomes. And we are poised to address the pressing challenges of climate change in our region and elsewhere. Your tax deductible gift will help leverage the outstanding science for which SFEI is known, enabling us to inform, engage, and empower the next generation of environmental leaders.
Your generous support will help us to
- Be ahead of the curve by developing new ideas, such as understanding how sea level rise will force groundwater upward, bringing contaminants to the surface and inland from the Bay, often in disadvantaged communities.
- Serve the communities hardest hit by environmental degradation by supporting them to design their own climate change solutions, using nature.
- Make the Bay Area and California more resilient to climate change with clean water, green cities, and soft shorelines, then offer this adaptation model to be replicated throughout the country.
- Make tools that can help deliver these results to more people, here and around the country.
In order to meaningfully leverage the ongoing scientific work of the San Francisco Estuary Institute and make sure it is used to best effect in this time of urgent need, we must have robust, independent donor support. We need new visionary donors to join our visionary leaders. We have established 2 new funds:
Elevate Environmental Equity Fund (E3 Fund)
This fund would help us to furnish technical support to all communities who are interested, working with them to create green, livable, healthy places to live that are resilient to climate change and helping their voices be heard in government processes.
Science-for-All Fund
This fund would allow us to provide our expertise to those who want and need it – elected officials, agency staff, local communities, journalists. This will help spur policies that incorporate our science much more quickly and also help launch many more and better projects on the ground that use nature based solutions.
Together, these two funding opportunities help close the gap between our resources and those who would benefit from them.
Our Superpower
We know from the science that restoring ecosystem health is going to help communities with flooding, heat, fires, and other natural disasters, as well as improving health and the daily quality of life.
Our deep knowledge of the area’s natural systems and decades-long relationships with decision-makers allows us to translate the science so that others, including frontline communities, can make better-informed decisions.
Other groups are working on aspects of climate change; we know how to work with nature to improve the place we live while also making it more resilient to climate change.
Giving to SFEI
The San Francisco Estuary Institute deeply appreciates the support of its donors, who are helping to expand SFEI’s impact on clean water, clean air, and healthy, resilient ecosystems. There are many ways to give to the Institute and every donation makes a difference. Thank you for being a partner in our mission to deliver visionary science that empowers people to revitalize nature in our communities.
San Francisco Estuary Institute is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Our federal tax ID number is 94-2951373.
Other Ways to Give
Mail Your Check (payable to San Francisco Estuary Institute) to:
San Francisco Estuary Institute
Attn: Development Department
4911 Central Avenue
Richmond, CA 94804
Download a form and return it by mail:
To discuss legacy giving, or make a gift via a donor advised fund (DAF) or IRA, please contact us at 510-746-7334 or [email protected]