Why Become a Member
Membership with Refuge Stewards is a meaningful way to support inclusive conservation and environmental stewardship. By joining or renewing, you help ensure that refugees and immigrants have opportunities to lead conservation efforts, care for protected lands, and build long term connections to the places they steward.
Members play a vital role in sustaining programs that combine ecological restoration with community leadership, equity, and belonging.
What Your Membership Supports
- Refugee led stewardship and restoration projects
- Leadership and skill building opportunities in conservation
- Inclusive community events and volunteer activities
- Long term partnerships that care for protected lands
Membership contributions provide flexible, reliable support that allows Refuge Stewards to respond to community needs and ecological priorities throughout the year.
Membership as Partnership
Joining Refuge Stewards is more than a financial contribution — it is a partnership rooted in shared values. Members stand alongside refugees, immigrants, volunteers, and conservation partners in building a more inclusive environmental movement.
Your membership helps shift conservation toward models that recognize lived experience, cultural knowledge, and shared responsibility for land.
Renewing Your Membership
Renewing your membership ensures continuity and long term impact. Ongoing support helps sustain relationships, stewardship projects, and leadership pathways that take time to grow.
Renewal is a simple way to reaffirm your commitment to inclusive conservation and community based environmental care.
Join Us Today
Whether you are joining for the first time or renewing your support, your membership strengthens Refuge Stewards’ ability to care for land and empower community leaders.
Together, we can support conservation that is inclusive, collaborative, and rooted in care for both people and place.