Spring Appeal 2025 – Help WGF Grow!
Wisconsin's Green Fire, April 15, 2025
We need you to help us grow.
Happy spring! Earth Day is almost here. Spring is a critical time of growth in nature, but also for our organization. As a small 501c3 nonprofit, we depend on your generous support throughout the year. Thanks to donors like you, we’ve become a leading organization for science and conservation in Wisconsin.
Did you know that most of our funding at Wisconsin’s Green Fire (WGF) comes from private individuals and families? This community of supporters keeps us nimble and strong! Yet, we aren’t exempt from the direct impacts of recent federal funding pauses. At WGF, we are experiencing disruptions in funding for ongoing and planned projects in 2025. But no matter what, we remain committed to this work and our values.
Every member of WGF plays an important role in upholding our mission and vision. No matter the size of your gift, we consider you a treasured supporter. Will you give to support WGF during our spring 2025 fundraising appeal? Thank you for your support!
- Giving is simple and secure through our online donation form.
- If you prefer to mail a check, please send it to PO Box 5411, Madison WI 53705.
- Find more information on more ways to give here.
Star Lake in Vilas County, photo by Ron Eckstein
Video: Doing the work ourselves: featuring Kate Reilly
Have you felt overwhelmed or baffled by the disruptions to environmental laws, federal funding pauses, and daily (or hourly) changes in conservation news? Watch the video below!
In this April 2025 video, WGF volunteer Kate Reilly describes how WGF helps her “channel the anger into doing something positive.”
For Kate—and perhaps for you—that “positive thing is helping organizations like Green Fire do what they do!”
Not just scientists
Our supporters come from all walks of life! Many are scientists and subject-matter experts, but we are also teachers, business-owners, artists, parents, gardeners, and more! What we all share is a commitment to science-based conservation. We all care about clean water, clean air, rich biodiversity, and healthy ecosystems in Wisconsin and beyond.
A gift of any amount makes you a member. Click here to donate today.
You can also give a gift membership! Complete our gift membership form here.
Student membership is free! We focus on college and graduate students, but students of all ages are welcome.
Students and professionals at our 3rd Annual Wisconsin Conservation Retreat, 2025
Our shared values shape our work
We’re staying true to our shared values across the organization. We are not censoring our word choices. We’re never shying away from the science on topics like climate change, sustainability, water quality, or endangered species. We remain committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
We are staying the course on our values, our integrity, and our work. To make that perfectly clear, the WGF Board of Directors voted unanimously at our April board meeting to reaffirm our commitment to:
- our strategic priorities around climate, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, contaminants like PFAS, and support for new generations of conservationists;
- our land acknowledgement; and
- our respect for traditional ecological knowledge.
A word cloud of WGF core values, created in 2024
You can count on Wisconsin’s Green Fire
Despite the chaotic changes in federal environmental policy and the ongoing challenges at state and local levels, you can count on us for science-based conservation. We hope we can count on you to stay in the fight with us. If you have already donated this spring, thank you! If you haven’t yet, please donate today.
Together, our green fire burns bright!
Do you have any questions or want to share your ideas? Contact us!
Reach our Executive Director, Meleesa Johnson at mjohnson@wigreenfire.org.
Get in touch with our Philanthropy and Membership Coordinator, Erica LeMoine at elemoine@wigreenfire.org. You are welcome to ask us any questions about what it means to support Wisconsin’s Green Fire, including Planned Giving options.
From all of us at Wisconsin’s Green Fire, thank you for your support this spring and always!
