Citizen Science 

Join in when the mood strikes or help with specific programs by reporting on wildlife or other issues. These programs help extend the scope of data needed to help protect wildlife, track pollution, and more. 

We have some citizen scientist opportunities listed on r/PlaneteerHandbook including the apps that can help you participate.

Clean-Ups 

Whether it's plastic on a beach, oil in the ocean, or mining waste in a river, organizations can help bring people together to make an amazing impact on our planet. 

We have some opportunities listed on r/PlaneteerHandbook for river clean ups and ocean clean up info, and beach clean ups.

Mass Unwrap 

The idea of this is to show your displeasure with unnecessary packaging by taking it all off at the place of purchase and dumping the packaging where the store itself has to deal with the mess. There are conflicting thoughts on the effectiveness of this method.

Movie Nights & Film Festivals

These have helped people transform their lives and the environment around them. This mobile theater https://youtu.be/RPJ9T4yAEGs has started a water-saving revolution in drought stricken Tanzania.

Outreach

Outreach event can include setting up a table with cookies and pamphlets, offering class events or movie screenings, handing out fliers at a farmer's market or other public places.

Physically-Distanced Rally

Phone Jam

Tabling

Tabling refers to people sitting at a table with pamphlets and other items such as petitions or sign up sheets. People volunteering to tabling events should make sure to understand the groups activities and goals well enough to explain to passers by. 

• Practical Guide to Tabling (PFD) "Tabling is an important and essential tool for recruiting new members, gathering signatures and building support for your group’s work. It is one of the simplest and most effective ways to increase the visibility of Amnesty International in your community or at your school. This guide walks you through key areas needed for successful tabling, including preparation, presentation and follow up."

Twitter Storm

"A Twitterstorm is a sudden spike in activity surrounding a certain topic on Twitter. Using a certain and ideally an original hashtag, the tweet quickly spreads as people are notified of the message and then reuse the hashtag with subsequent retweets and tweets. The goal is to trend (at least locally) to gain attention." (Source = Techopedia.) 

Not sure how this method might be impacted by the new changes at twitter, but similar or the same tactics may be useable on other platforms too.

• How to do a Twitterstorm! (PDF)

Veganism & Vegetarianism

Eating a plant-based diet can help improve our food security, boycott unsustainable food production systems, reduce your water/deforestation/energy/emissions/errosion footprints, and more.

Specific events might include movie nights, film festivals, veggie food festivals, marches and more.

Funding 

Events need funding, so sponsor local groups and show up to their events!

Raffles, food, entry charges, and donations make up a large part of what organizations need to keep running year round. 

End of Life

You can also name organizations of your choice in your will, so consider if you want your unused savings to plant trees or help support something important like human rights or conservation.

Music Playlist Suggestions

Music has a wonderful ability to unite and inspire certain emotions. These are some of the pieces that help us get in the mood for action.

What music inspires you?

Maps

International

• More People Care About Climate Change than You Think "The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share."

Grants

International

• Animal Charity Evaluators "ACE Movement Grants (formerly “Effective Animal Advocacy Fund”) is for anyone who is interested in making the animal advocacy movement more effective."

• Farmed Animal Funders "Our group is open to all individuals and foundations giving more than $250,000 per year to end factory farming."

• The Pollination Project (TPP) "is a vegan foundation that offers seed funding to grassroots activists working to build a kinder, more compassionate world for human & non-human animals.
  
  TPP focuses on early stage ideas and funds individuals directly. Over the years, they’ve seen the power of bottom-up, community-led grassroots activism. Through “pollination philanthropy”– a democratic model of peer-to-peer decision-making — TPP works with a global network of grantees, community partners, and volunteer advisors to identify extraordinary project leaders who, due to the grassroots nature of their work, are often not in a position to receive funding from other foundations or institutions.
  
  They make micro grants 365 days a year to grassroots global change agents and have a growing global community of 4,500 grassroots leaders in 150 countries. They support vegan outreach projects around the world, and have a special program for farmed animal activists in Brazil, India and Mexico. Their goal is to offer not just seed funding, but capacity-building support and connectivity with other activists working in the same geographic or issue area. "

• VegFund "offers grants to help you do just that! VegFund accepts applications for funding outreach in three areas: Community Events, Special Projects, and Online Campaigns."

Europe

UK

• The National Trust: Freshwater Community Grant Fund "Grants of £500 to £5,000 are available for initiatives that create, look after or improve local freshwater habitats and provide opportunities for people to connect with nature."

North America

• Food for Thought "We have several grant opportunities to help you make these goals a reality!"

USA

• Caring for our Coast Gulf Region Grant Program "Restore America’s Estuaries is excited to partner with CITGO to facilitate the Caring for our Coast grants to organizations and groups hosting locally-based volunteer events in the Gulf of Mexico region. These grants are intended to provide coastal groups with funding to host beach clean-ups, estuary restoration, or other educational/outreach events."

Minnesota

• MWMO: Community Grants "are available for short-term or small-scale water quality projects. The grant amount may not exceed $5,000. No matching funds are required."

Oceana

Australia

Western Australia

• The Sustainability Grants Program (in the City of Cockburn) "offers funding for projects related to six sustainability themes. Open to small businesses, schools, not-for-profits, and collective households, successful applicants can receive up to $4,000 for their project."