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Help Us Raise $500,000 to Power a Year of Climate Advocacy

From confronting environmental threats to advancing policies that protect people and wetlands, our team leads with persistence and heart. Your support keeps them at the table, amplifying voices and ensuring the Bay is protected and restored for people and wildlife.

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. Their work is a quiet force and focused on protecting the Bay and those who depend on it.

They don’t do it alone. This work is possible because people like you believe the Bay is worth fighting for—now and in the future.

What Your Support Makes Possible

Policy change doesn’t happen overnight. It takes people—building relationships, showing up again and again, and never backing down when the Bay and its communities are at risk.

Here’s what your support makes possible:

  • $2,200 supports a day of action, advocating for smarter shoreline protections, elevating community voices, and ensuring the Bay is part of every conversation.

  • $9,600 drives a week of impact, advancing climate solutions that protect people and wetlands, especially in communities most at risk.

  • $41,600 sustains a month of momentum, enabling rapid response to new threats and sustained work to craft and pass meaningful legislation.

  • $125,000 drives a quarter of progress, keeping advocates at the table, pushing protections that will last.

We’re working to raise $500,000, enough to power our Policy Team for a full year of bold, strategic advocacy.

If 250 people donate $2200, 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.

Have questions about giving?

Want to talk more about how you can support this work or make a non-cash gift? Please reach out to Katie Reitter at kreitter@savesfbay.org or (510) 463-6837. We’d love to hear from you.