• During their 18 year partnership, the Fund-Sierra Club canvass brought in over 750,000 Sierra Club members.

• The Fund canvass expanded Sierra Club’s geographic reach.  We signed up Sierra Club members in nearly all 50 states.

• The canvass played an important role in Sierra Club’s advocacy efforts. Fund-Sierra Club canvassers collected over 300,000 petitions to protect national forests.

Since its founding in 1892, the Sierra Club has been the nation’s leading environmental group.  The Club has helped lead the way in establishing the Environmental Protection Agency; creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and passing the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts.

The Fund-Sierra Club partnership began two decades ago. Over the course of the 18 year partnership, the Fund signed up hundreds of thousands of members for Sierra Club. Today, Sierra Club has a list of members and supporters which exceeds more than 1.4 million. During the partnership, the Fund signed up Sierra Club members in nearly all 50 states, expanding Sierra Club’s geographic reach as well.

Sierra Club has long been committed to engaging its members in grassroots campaigns to protect the environment. This is best illustrated by the fact that Sierra Club is made up of more than 60 regional chapters across the United States. Through these chapters, Sierra Club members across the country participate in activities like phone banks, petition drives and neighborhood walks to engage their neighbors in campaigns to protect the planet. Over one hundred thousand Sierra Club members regularly engage in environmental advocacy through Sierra Club’s communications.

The broad base of members recruited by the canvass has helped Sierra Club to run successful large, volunteer-driven grassroots campaigns over the years. The canvass and the support of the Sierra Club members it recruited also helped provide the resources that such a program requires.

The Sierra Club-Fund canvasses worked on many environmental issues including banning new offshore oil drilling; ending the destructive act of mountain-top removal mining; stopping global warming and promoting clean energy and jobs through Sierra Club’s Cool Cities program; and protecting America’s wild places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.