Every school year brings a new wave of curiosity, creativity, and potential. But for many classrooms, especially those with limited budgets, important learning experiences about our planet remain out of reach. That’s where you come in. When you donate to Change is Simple, you are fueling a movement that helps young learners understand their role in building a sustainable future.
Funding for the 2025 end-of-year giving is open, and your support can make all the difference. At Change is Simple, your generosity turns lessons about recycling, energy, and ecosystems into real-world experiences that spark a lifelong commitment to protecting Earth. Your tax-deductible donations ensure that every child, regardless of background, has the chance to learn about our planet.
The State of Environmental Education Today
Across the country, climate education faces a growing gap. While most teachers recognize its importance, many lack the time, resources, and training to deliver it effectively. That’s why environmental education funding is essential. It brings expert-led programs into schools and equips students with hands-on learning experiences that inspire environmental stewardship.
Here’s what’s happening in classrooms today:
Limited Funding: Since 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency has awarded approximately $95 million in environmental education grants to over 3,900 projects nationwide. Despite this, funding remains insufficient to meet the growing demand for quality environmental education programs.
Resource Gaps: Many schools lack access to updated curricula, hands-on materials, and professional development opportunities for educators, limiting the depth of environmental education.
Curriculum Integration Challenges: Environmental education often falls between traditional subject areas, leading to fragmented implementation and inconsistent delivery across different educational settings.
Policy and Legislative Barriers: Despite strong public support (over 86% of teachers and 84% of parents advocate for climate change education), there is no national consensus or standardized curriculum, resulting in uneven educational experiences for students.
Your giving helps close this gap. With every contribution, you help bring engaging, science-based climate education into classrooms.
What Your Support Makes Possible
Your donation transforms classrooms into hubs of environmental innovation and student-led action. Here's how your support is making a tangible difference:
Hands-On Climate Lessons: Over 8,000 students engage in interactive lessons annually, covering topics such as biodiversity, energy, and sustainable food systems.
SCiLL Mobile Learning Lab: This traveling classroom brings immersive, climate-focused education directly to schools, ensuring accessibility even in under-resourced communities.
STEAM Integration: Programs blend science, technology, engineering, arts, and math through an environmental lens, allowing students to design, build, test, and audit.
Career Exploration: Programs introduce youth to ideas that can spark curiosity and inspire interest in exciting environmental science careers.
Program Evaluations: Third-party studies were conducted exploring the effectiveness of Change is Simple programming. Both short-term and long-term impacts have been measured and verified. Short-term studies remain ongoing while the long-term study showed alumni reporting lasting changes in their environmental attitudes and behaviors, demonstrating the enduring effect of early climate education.
Each of these opportunities helps students move from awareness to action, building confidence and knowledge they’ll carry into adulthood. We can prove it.
Empowering Teachers and Schools
Teachers are the foundation of strong climate education, but many feel unprepared or unsupported when it comes to teaching sustainability. Your giving empowers educators to integrate environmental lessons into their existing curricula.
Our professional development resources are designed to boost the impact of environmental education by equipping educators with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to lead transformative experiences.
Our professional development offerings include:
Personalized, DESE-certified training tailored to teacher needs.
Workshops and lesson plans aligned with Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core, with an emphasis on experiential learning.
Hands-on sessions, such as setting up hydroponics or Green Classroom audits.
Customizable professional development for schools or districts, delivered in-person or virtually.
By empowering teachers, we enable schools to build classrooms where sustainability is woven into every lesson.
Give in a Way That Works for You
You’ve got options when it comes to making a difference. Whether you prefer a one-time gift, a lasting legacy, or a match through your workplace, every contribution helps bring climate education to more students and schools. Here are some of the key ways you can support our efforts:
Online Donation: Make a secure one-time or recurring gift directly through our website to support climate education programs.
Check by Mail: Send a check payable to Change is Simple, Inc. at 100 Cummings Center Suite 227Q, Beverly, MA 01915.
Become a Monthly Donor: Monthly donors give an average of 42% more per year than one-time donors. Recurring donors increase donor lifetime retention, and donation stability and sustainability.
Gift of Stock: Transfer shares via Morgan Stanley (DTC# 0015), and notify us with details to receive a tax receipt.
Donor-Advised Fund: Leverage your donor-advised fund to support climate education programs and maximize your impact.
Planned Giving: Consider a planned gift to create a lasting legacy and benefit students for years to come.
Employer Matching: Check whether your employer matches charitable giving to double the impact of your contribution.
Even a modest donation can spark curiosity, inspire young minds, and help build a generation of environmental stewards ready to care for our planet. Plus, all these options are tax-deductible donations, so your support benefits both students and your giving goals.
Power the Change: Make an Impact This School Year
Ready to make a difference? Donating to fund the school year is an opportunity to ignite young minds and inspire action for a healthier planet. Your donations for education empower a generation to think critically, care deeply, and act boldly.
Change is Simple is a nonprofit dedicated to bringing environmental and sustainability education into schools through fun, hands-on learning. By empowering children with the knowledge and tools to care for the planet, Change is Simple inspires a generation of young leaders ready to build a healthier future. To support our mission or learn more, visit our site or donate here.