Thursday, May 5, 2022

Join hundreds of organizations and thousands of donors across St. Louis for a 24-hour day of online giving! Funds raised by the Missouri Botanical Garden on Give STL Day support the EarthWays Center, the Garden division focused on sustainability in our community. 

Give to the Garden on Give STL Day!

Help EarthWays Center reach even more schools, students, and teachers with vital sustainability education, resources, and experiences in underserved St. Louis communities!

COVID-19 is having an impact on organizations across our community, and the Garden is no exception. While our grounds are closed to visitors, our work continues with a skeleton crew focused on caring for our living collections—including thousands of rare and endangered plant species. Garden scientists working in more than 30 countries cannot travel to study plants in the wild. Students, volunteers, and interns no longer have access to valuable resources and cannot provide “hands on” support of our mission.

EarthWays staff are shifting from spending 95% of their time out in the region to remote methods for responding to community sustainability needs.

We need your help more than ever before to sustain our programs in St. Louis and around the world.

Maximize your gift on Give STL Day!

You can increase the impact of your Give STL Day gift in many ways. The first $1,950 will be matched by our generous matching gift partners Garrett Paper, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, and Office Essentials.

Consider donating during a Prize Hour!

Put the Garden in the running for an extra $1,000 cash prize!

• Most dollars raised in an hour: 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. | 11 a.m. to noon | 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Most unique donors in an hour: 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. | 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. | 11 p.m. to midnight

Make a gift on a Power Hour!

Power Hours have $20,000 waiting each hour to divide between all the organizations receiving donations that hour. Power up your gift!

• Power Hours: 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. | 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. | noon to 1 p.m. | 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. | 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

For Give STL Day 2019, EarthWays focused on sunflowers!

The Sunflower+ Project: StL is a winner of the St. Louis Sustainable Land Lab Design Competition. For more than five years, the team has planted sunflowers on vacant, urban land. The project combines the power of plants and sustainability with biodiversity, pollinator awareness, and community.