WAYS TO GIVE
Start a fundraiser to celebrate your birthday, honor a loved one, or mark a special life event. Whatever the occasion, you can bring people together to help protect endangered turtles and tortoises.
By creating a fundraiser for Turtle Island, you are empowering your friends, family, and community to support turtle conservation and make a real difference.
How Your Fundraiser Helps
Funds raised through your fundraiser directly support Turtle Island’s conservation work. Your contributions help provide daily care for turtles in our programs, including food, heating, and habitat maintenance, as well as essential veterinary care for injured or sick animals.
Donations also support habitat restoration efforts that protect and improve natural environments where endangered turtles can safely survive and thrive. In addition, fundraising helps advance conservation research that improves our understanding of threatened turtle populations and supports rewilding programs that prepare turtles for release and return endangered species to protected habitats in the wild.
Through your fundraiser, you are helping protect some of the most vulnerable turtles on our planet. 🐢
Fundraising Ideas
There are many creative ways to support turtle conservation:
🎂 Birthday Fundraisers
Ask friends and family to donate instead of giving gifts.
🎉 Celebrations and Special Events
Weddings, anniversaries, graduations, or other milestones can be meaningful opportunities to support conservation.
💚 In Memory or In Honor Fundraisers
Celebrate the life of a loved one by supporting a cause that protects wildlife and nature.
🏃 Challenge Fundraisers
Host a walk, run, swim, or personal challenge and encourage others to sponsor your effort.
🎨 Community Events
Organize a small event, art sale, school fundraiser, or community gathering to support Turtle Island.
Why It Matters
Turtles and tortoises are among the most endangered groups of animals on Earth. Many species face threats from habitat loss, illegal trade, pollution, and invasive species.
By starting a fundraiser, you get your community involved, creating an even bigger impact to help raise both critical funding and awareness for turtle conservation. Together, we can give these incredible animals a chance to survive and thrive in the wild.
How to Start a Fundraiser in 3 Simple Steps
Starting a fundraiser for Turtle Island is simple and only takes a few minutes.
- Create Your Fundraiser
Set up your fundraiser and choose the occasion, whether it’s a birthday, celebration, challenge, or tribute to someone special. - Share Your Story
Tell your friends, family, and community why protecting turtles matters to you. Personal stories inspire people to give. - Invite Others to Participate
Share your fundraiser on social media, email, or messaging apps and encourage others to support turtle conservation by donating or spreading the word.
Together, small actions can create a big impact for endangered turtles and tortoises.
Start Your Fundraiser Today
Starting a fundraiser is simple and can have a lasting impact.
When you fundraise for Turtle Island, you become part of a global community working to protect endangered turtles and the ecosystems they depend on. Please contact us at office@turtle-island.org if you have any questions about starting a fundraiser.
Every fundraiser—big or small—helps make a difference. 🐢