Power Regional Resilience.
All Gifts Matched up to $39,000
Fund the Team That Gets It Done.
Help us raise $700,000 to power a year of advocacy for regional resilience. At Save The Bay, our policy team drives advocacy. They’re writers, researchers, coalition-builders and public speakers —persistent, patient, and powerful. Each day, these individuals step into hearing rooms, city halls, and Capitol corridors to ensure the Bay and its people are represented.
They navigate a fast-changing climate: securing funding, challenging rollbacks, and shaping local plans rooted in equity and natural solutions.
They don’t do it alone. This work is possible because people like you believe the Bay and its communities are worth fighting for—now and in the future.
What Your Support Makes Possible
Shoreline communities across the Bay Area are already feeling the effects of sea level rise — flooded roads, threatened homes, failing infrastructure. Protecting them takes people — advocates who know which legislator to call, which city council meeting to show up to, and how to turn a good idea into a funded project. Here’s what your support makes possible:
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$2,700 funds a day of advocacy — fighting for nature-based shoreline protections and ensuring vulnerable communities have a seat at the table.
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$13,500 drives a week of impact — advancing the policies and funding that help Bay Area cities adapt to a rising Bay.
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$58,000 sustains a month of momentum — from rapid response to federal threats to the long game of crafting and passing meaningful legislation.
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$175,000 powers a quarter of progress — keeping our advocates in the room in city halls, Sacramento, and Washington.
We’re working to raise $700,000 — enough to power our policy team for a full year of bold, strategic advocacy for regional resilience.
If 250 people donate $2,800, we’ll get there. But every gift, at every level, brings us closer.
Carrying the Legacy Forward
In the 1960s, Sylvia McLaughlin, Kay Kerr, and Esther Gulick saw powerful people treating the Bay like a dumping ground—something to pave over and claim. They said no. With clipboards and courage, they rallied neighbors, challenged developers, and helped establish the nation’s first coastal protection agency.
That victory wasn’t the end. It was the beginning of a legacy.
Today, we face a different fight: rising seas, shrinking wetlands, and deepening environmental injustice. But the tools remain the same—people, policy, persistence.
Our Policy Team carries that bold spirit forward—because movements don’t live in history. They live in people who choose to act.
Interested in making a non-cash gift or including Save The Bay in your will?
Want to talk more about how you can support this work or make a non-cash gift? Please reach out to Masha Gutkin at mgutkin@savesfbay.org or (510) 463-6854. We’d love to hear from you.