Giving to Refuge Stewards is an investment in people, land, and long term environmental care. Your support makes it possible for refugees and immigrants to take active leadership roles in conservation, restoring ecosystems while building skills, confidence, and community connection.
We believe conservation is strongest when it is inclusive. Contributions help remove barriers to participation and ensure that stewardship opportunities are accessible to individuals who have historically been excluded from environmental work.
Why Your Support Matters
Environmental stewardship is often shaped by access — access to land, education, resources, and decision making power. Refugees and immigrants bring deep knowledge, resilience, and care for the land, yet they frequently face structural barriers to participation in conservation initiatives.
Your giving helps address these inequities by supporting programs that center refugee leadership and create pathways into environmental work. Contributions fund hands on restoration projects, training, and community based stewardship that benefits both ecosystems and people.
What Your Contribution Supports
Refugee Led Stewardship Programs
Donations directly support stewardship programs led by refugees and immigrants. These programs focus on practical conservation activities such as habitat restoration, invasive species removal, native plant care, and long term land management.
Participants are compensated for their leadership and expertise, recognizing stewardship as meaningful work rather than volunteer labor alone. This approach builds dignity, economic opportunity, and lasting engagement with conservation.
Training and Skill Development
Giving helps fund training opportunities that equip participants with technical conservation skills and leadership experience. Trainings may include ecological monitoring, restoration techniques, tool safety, and environmental education.
These skills support career pathways in conservation and environmental fields while strengthening the capacity of communities to care for local landscapes.
Inclusive Community Events
Your support makes it possible to host inclusive community events that bring together refugees, volunteers, and partners for shared stewardship. These events foster learning, cultural exchange, and relationship building while achieving tangible conservation outcomes.
Community based events help create welcoming entry points into environmental work for individuals and families who may not otherwise feel represented in conservation spaces.
Advancing Equity in Conservation
Refuge Stewards approaches giving through a lens of equity and environmental justice. We recognize that historic conservation efforts have often excluded marginalized communities, even as those communities have been disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation.
Your contribution supports a different model — one that centers lived experience, cultural knowledge, and shared responsibility. Giving helps shift conservation toward practices that are collaborative, inclusive, and rooted in community leadership.
Building Long Term Environmental Impact
Conservation is not a one time effort. Sustained impact requires long term relationships, ongoing care, and consistent investment. Giving to Refuge Stewards helps ensure that stewardship work continues beyond single events or seasons.
Your support allows us to plan multi year restoration projects, develop leadership pipelines, and maintain partnerships with land trusts and conservation organizations committed to inclusive practices.
Partnerships Made Possible by Giving
Donations strengthen partnerships with conservation organizations, public agencies, and community groups. These collaborations expand access to protected lands and create more opportunities for refugee leaders to shape stewardship efforts.
By supporting Refuge Stewards, you help bridge community knowledge with institutional conservation resources, resulting in more resilient and representative environmental care.
Ways to Give
There are many ways to support Refuge Stewards’ mission. Financial contributions of all sizes make a difference and directly support program delivery, participant compensation, and organizational sustainability.
- One time donations
- Recurring monthly support
- Employer matching gifts
- Tribute and honor gifts
Each form of giving contributes to a shared goal: empowering refugees and immigrants to lead conservation work that benefits land and communities.
Transparency and Accountability
We are committed to transparency and responsible stewardship of resources. Contributions are used strategically to support mission aligned programs, with careful attention to community needs and environmental outcomes.
Donors can trust that their support is directed toward meaningful, measurable impact rooted in relationships and long term care for land.
Giving as Partnership
We view giving not simply as a transaction, but as a partnership. Supporters become part of a growing network committed to inclusive conservation and environmental justice.
Through giving, you help shape a conservation movement that reflects the diversity of the communities it serves and recognizes stewardship as a shared responsibility.
Join Us in Supporting Inclusive Conservation
When you give to Refuge Stewards, you support more than projects — you support people, leadership, and a vision of conservation rooted in equity and collaboration.
Together, we can care for land while creating opportunities for refugees and immigrants to lead, teach, and steward the environments we all depend on.