Donating is one of the most direct ways you can help Planet Bee. Even just a $10 donation will provide a student with our un-bee-lievable E-STEM distance-learning program! You may even commit to a long-term impact by giving a monthly, quarterly, or annual donation that will ensure our environmental educators will keep spreading the word to save the bees for years to come!

Help get others buzzing about Planet Bee by starting a Facebook fundraiser! Whether for your birthday or another occasion, set up a fundraiser to inspire your friends to help Planet Bee. Any donation, however big or small, will aid us in our mission to create a green-minded generation through environmental stewardship, using the lens of the struggling honey bee to teach the power of individual action.  

This is perhaps the easiest way to contribute to Planet Bee! By joining services such as Amazon Smile, iGive, and Giving Assistant, you can help bring smiles to children all over Northern California just by shopping! These services will either donate a portion of your purchase’s proceeds to your favorite charitable organization at no cost to you or allow you to earn cashback on your purchases, which you can choose to donate to nonprofits like Planet Bee. In the case of Amazon Smile, just go to their website, select “Planet Bee Foundation” as your charity, and shop as you normally do! Half of a percentage of your proceeds will be donated to Planet Bee, where they will go directly to our educational programs. 

By ordering Planet Bee merchandise, you will not only look un-bee-lievably cute in our comfy sweatshirts or sporty in our premium tank tops, but you will also be supporting our educational programs! 100% of the proceeds from Planet Bee merch purchases go to our K-12 E-STEM programs.

Undoubtedly one of the most fun and active ways to support Planet Bee is nominating us to be the recipient of a virtual run! A portion of the race registration fee from each individual is donated to a nominated charity. When proceeds go to Planet Bee, they fund our educational programs and our overall mission to create a green-minded generation! On one of our favorite sites, Virtual Run Events, you can nominate Planet Bee by going to their “Nominate a Charity” page and filling out the form. 

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Virtual Strides is another un-bee-lievably great site where you can recommend Planet Bee as a recipient charity! Just go to their “Contact Us” page, click the little blue “Help” button in the lower right corner, then click the “Contact us” button that will appear in the same window. From there, you will be able to complete a form where you can nominate Planet Bee Foundation to be the recipient charity for a future race!

Planet Bee’s virtual team-building events are a buzz-worthy opportunity for remote teams to engage with each other, build camaraderie, and learn how to save the bees! Each virtual workshop includes a presentation on bees and their importance, a Q&A, and a hands-on activity. By bringing a Planet Bee workshop to your company, you will not only educate and enable your staff to bond, but you will also provide our STEM lesson programs to students at little to no cost! 

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Learn more about providing a team-building workshop to your employees on our Virtual Corporate Team-Building Workshops page today!

If you live in the San Francisco area, order our 3LB Packages of Honey Bees from Orland, CA. They are local Californian Italians and Carniolans, bred using techniques developed by UC Davis. They are specifically bred for hygiene, health, gentleness, and productivity - perfect for a backyard hive! Bees are available in the spring. By purchasing Honey Bees through Planet Bee, you will not only provide local pollination services to the community, but you will provide our distance-learning programs to schools across the country for no cost in our dedication to social justice!

Regardless of where you live, consider ordering Planet Bee’s complete Hive Kits and starting your own hive at home! With each kit purchased, you will be providing 4 students with an experience of a lifetime through our innovative E-STEM lessons that bring live bees to schools. In our commitment to social justice, we are offering our new distance learning program to ensure all students have access to high-quality environmental education during this pandemic. Our lessons teach about the importance of bees and provide students with a springboard into environmentalism.

Do you have office equipment you no longer need, but that can still be used? We always appreciate receiving items such as desks, standing desk equipment, bookshelves or other kinds of storage, computers, tablets, and cameras. These items provide us here at Planet Bee with the essentials to run efficiently and provide the best resources to students and teachers across the country!

If your workplace allows you to donate your volunteer hours through companies like Deed, Benevity, and YourCause, consider giving to Planet Bee! Platforms such as these enable and empower you to do good, through volunteering, fundraising, and cause-focused campaigns, while ensuring the impact on communities is tangible, like donations to nonprofits. If your employer is not currently participating in these, or any other, philanthropic services, consider recommending one, as the benefits are incredibly impactful!

With each survey you complete from SurveyMonkey Contribute, you can earn 50 cents to donate to Planet Bee and other charities of your choice. To begin, just go to SurveyMonkey Contribute, follow the steps to create your Contribute account, and start taking surveys! Each survey and donation makes a huge difference and supports Planet Bee’s mission to educate, inspire, and create a green-minded generation.

On the Bonfire platform, you can upload your own t-shirt designs and fundraise for Planet Bee. When you sign up here, you will design your t-shirts, set your prices, and select The Planet Bee Foundation as your fundraising campaign. Our organization will then be displayed on your profile for others to learn more about us! Your payout will be sent directly to our organization.

A DAF is a centralized charitable account. It allows charitably-inclined individual, families and businesses to make tax-deductible charitable donations of cash, publicly-traded stock and in some case, certain liquid assets, to a public charity that sponsors a DAF program.

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Questions? Email our Executive Director at debra@planetbee.org.

Does your corporation have an employee matching program? If so, you can DOUBLE your impact! Thanks to you, twice as many students will be exposed to our cutting-edge STEM curriculum, coming face to face with live honey bees and learning the importance of environmental stewardship to our planet’s future.

If your company does have a matching program, then fill out their matching gift form and mail or email it to Planet Bee, or log into your company’s matching gift website to request the match. It’s that simple!