Community Giving / Impact
1% for the Planet
1% for the Planet accelerates smart environmental giving.
1% for the Planet is a global organization that exists to ensure our planet and future generations thrive. We inspire businesses and individuals to support environmental nonprofits through membership and everyday actions. We make environmental giving easy and effective through partnership advising, impact storytelling and third-party certification.
Started in 2002 by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, and Craig Mathews, founder of Blue Ribbon Flies, our business members and individual members have given hundreds of millions of dollars to our approved nonprofit partners to date. Today, 1% for the Planet’s global network consists of thousands of businesses, individuals and environmental nonprofits working toward a better future for all.
Gallatin Watershed Council
Business Steward and volunteering
The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.
We support the sustainability and health of the Lower Gallatin Watershed through collaborative partnerships, community education, restoration efforts, and individual empowerment.
Montana Wilderness School
Fiscal Sponsorship
The mission of the Montana Wilderness School is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.
Foster the Earth
Fiscal Sponsorship
Foster the Earth is a 1% for the Planet nonprofit partner that provides hiking and backpacking experiences to individuals with limited access to the outdoors. We are dedicated to helping underserved youth in the foster care system connect with nature. Our program provides educational wilderness immersion in which participants build skills and self-confidence, imparts a sense of wonder and awe, and inspires these underserved youth to become advocates to protect our world’s wild places.
Gallatin Valley Land Trust
Volunteering with Trail Building (also a 1% for the Planet Member)
Gallatin Valley Land Trust connects people, communities, and open lands through conservation of working farms and ranches, healthy rivers, and wildlife habitat, and the creation of trails in the Montana headwaters of the Missouri and Upper Yellowstone Rivers.
