The staff of the Fund for Public Interest Research have done a tremendous job of identifying new members and support for the Sierra Club, and their success reflects well on their training. The Fund takes great pride in teaching the craft of outreach.

–Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club

With over 750,000 members and 63 chapters, Sierra Club is the oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the country.

Accomplishments with Sierra Club

· The Fund-Sierra Club canvass has brought in well over 100,000 new Sierra Club members since the partnership started in 1994.

· The Fund canvass expands Sierra Club’s geographic reach.  We have signed up Sierra Club members in nearly all 50 states.

· The canvass plays an important role in Sierra Club’s advocacy efforts.  Fund-Sierra Club canvassers have collected over 300,000 petitions to protect national forests.
 
Sierra Club has long been committed to engaging its members in grassroots campaigns to protect the environment.  Over one hundred thousand Sierra Club members regularly engage in environmental advocacy through Sierra Club’s communications with them.  A few years ago, Sierra Club started a program called “Building Environmental Communities” (BEC) to engage even more of its members in grassroots efforts to protect the environment.  Through the BEC program, 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. 

The broad base of members recruited by the canvass enables Sierra Club to meet their current level of success in organizing these large, volunteer-driven local grassroots campaigns.  The canvass and the support of the Sierra Club members it recruits also helps provide the level of resources that such a program requires.

The Sierra Club-Fund canvasses are currently building grassroots support to reduce global warming pollution.

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