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January, 2025
Due to the generous support of donors, we met—and exceeded—our goal for 2024! Grateful thanks to all who donated: our work would not be possible without you.
Help us reach our goal for 2025: to raise $20,000 and receive 100 donations. We’re already well on our way! As we exceeded our goal last year, the surplus has been applied to our 2025 fundraiser.
Unrestricted donations help us cover overhead and pay essential staff to direct programming that advances our mission. Generous support in 2024 enabled this great work:
• 131 students and faculty from eight US universities studied in Ecuador on our credit-bearing experiential learning programs.
• Courses included: Environmental / Social Justice, Ecology and Evolution in the Galápagos Islands, Biodiversity and the Modern Extinction Crisis, and Ethnobotany and Medicinal Plants, among others.
• 19 Scientists, artists, and life-long learners participated in our Bright Islands, Deep Forests program, a natural history exploration that supports conservation in the sites of study.
• $8,000 earmarked for the protection of threatened forests of Ecuador with the Orchid Conservation Alliance and Fundación EcoMinga.
• $3,000+ in charitable donations raised for Fundación EcoMinga’s Cloud Forest Vanilla Project. With gratitude to the Bright Islands, Deep Forests cohort of 2024 for their generosity and spirit, and to Tom Fleischner and Edie Dillon, founding leaders of the program, for their leadership and example.
• $2,500+ in charitable donations and book sales raised for Climate Justice Solutions in the Amazon basin.
• $1,000 from our Artists for Climate Justice Fund used as landslide relief for affected communities in the Baños, Ecuador, region. Gracious thanks to the Orchid Conservation Alliance, Fundación EcoMinga, and to the writers, artists, and readers of River Glass Books for making this possible.
• Three literary chapbooks accepted and prepared for publication: Scarecrow Sees by Robert Okaji, A Future with Bromeliads by Grace Massey, and Pulling Together in Rising Waters: Reciprocity as Practice by Edie Dillon. Sales will fund climate justice solutions in the Amazon basin.
This is only the beginning. See our latest impact report for a detailed record of our work, and explore all our fundraisers and ways to give, on https://ecostudiofoundation.org/donate/
Donations received here will be applied to the area of greatest need. Unrestricted donations received via other methods (check, PayPal button on our site, etc.) will be listed here as "offline" donations.
With a gift of any amount, you can advance our mission to unite conservation, education, and the arts for a more just world.
With gratitude,
Marley Stuart
Executive Director,
EcoStudio Foundation
Global Learning * Environmental Conservation * Literary Publishing
501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN: 87-1730274
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November, 2023
Please consider EcoStudio Foundation in your year-end giving.
Our mission is to unite conservation, education, and the arts for a more just world. We advance this mission through experiential learning programs in Ecuador and the publication of literary and artistic material with River Glass Books.
This past year:
- We sent 163 students, scientists, artists, and life-long learners to Ecuador on programs that support conservation and sustainable development across the region.
- Students earned credits at U.S. universities and learned from the incredible people of Santa Lucía Cloud Forest Reserve, Fundación EcoMinga, Mandari Panga, Sani Isla, Runa Tupari, El Placer, and Andean Study Programs, among others.
- We sent over $50,000 to Indigenous community-led projects that support healthcare and education for Kichwa families in the Amazon basin—and we pledged an additional $10,000 to protect threatened forests across Ecuador.
- We published Sihle Ntuli’s The Nation, a poetry collection that raises money for climate justice solutions. Art by Lungile Mbokane. Sihle Ntuli recently appeared on PEN South Africa's "The Empty Chair" podcast and joins the River Glass Books family: Táíwò Hassan’s Birds Don’t Fly for Pleasure, Stella Lei’s Inheritances of Hunger, Stephen Frech’s Into Night’s Tent, Katie Manning’s 28,065 Nights, Jen Grace Stewart’s Latch, Eve F. W. Linn’s Model Home, and Brian Jerrold Koester’s Bossa Nova. Art by Anointing Obuh, Taylor Yingshi, A. E. Landry, and Christine Darragh.
Since Earth Day, 2022, we’ve raised over $1,500 from book sales and donations to the Artists for Climate Justice Fund.
From Giving Tuesday until the end of the year, our goal is to collect 100 contributions and raise $12,500 in donations. Support will be used to cover overhead in the summer months between seasonal educational programming. Or, write us if you'd like to dedicate your gift to a specific project.
Donations made on GoFundMe will go to EcoStudio through the PayPal Giving Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which will send out tax receipts to donors. You may also make your contribution to us directly on our site's donate page, or by mailing a check payable to EcoStudio Foundation to P.O. Box 359, Syracuse, NY 13205.
No amount is too small to help us continue our work. This fundraiser will remain open until we reach our goal.
With gratitude,
Marley Stuart
Executive Director,
EcoStudio Foundation
Global Learning * Environmental Conservation * Literary Publishing
501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN: 87-1730274
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