Donations

Climate Ride Donors make all the difference!

Your donation to a Climate Ride participant allows them to deepen their advocacy, raise awareness of green issues, and provides crucial funding for Climate Ride’s grant programs.

Donors can support participants using our online software (either right from your page or by searching for your name here) or by donating via mail using our Donation by Mail form. Participants – Ideally, you’ll send donors directly to your fundraising page so they can read about your inspiration for participating in a Climate Ride event!

Climate Ride events are produced by Climate Ride (Tax ID # 27-1777457), a nonprofit, public benefit corporation recognized as tax-exempt under IRS Code Section 501(c)(3). Donations to Climate Ride are deductible for income tax purposes to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

Matching Donations

A great way to multiply the impact of your donors’ support is to encourage donors to ask their company if it matches gifts. As long as the matching gift comes in by the end of year fundraising deadline, it counts toward your goal. Matching donations are often processed quarterly by companies, so if you want to take advantage of matching donations to get to your fundraising minimum, be sure to start early! If you’re counting on a match and waiting for it to meet your minimum, but it may not come until after the event, please reach out to us as soon as you can.

The process for your donors is pretty simple: First, they’ll make a donation to a participant or to the Climate Ride Annual Fund. Then, they’ll contact their company’s HR department to begin the matching process. Be sure to note how often the company sends out matches – some only do it annually, while others do it quarterly. Once the match arrives in the Climate Ride office, we’ll post it right to your fundraising page.

Contribution of Securities

A gift of stock can be a great way for a donor to support a participant while at the same time lessening their tax burden! To facilitate electronic payment, receipt and proper acknowledgment of the gift to our account at Vanguard, please download and complete the form below. You will fill out the Gift Details section and provide your broker with the specific information included in the Delivery Instructions section.

Contribution of Securities Form (PDF)

What our participants have to say

Your program made it so easy for me to raise money to support causes that I care deeply about. I was out on a bike ride early in spring and was thinking about how I could combine two of my biggest passions: 1) environmental causes; 2) riding my bike. Climate Ride allowed me to do this and my 3.5 day trip from Baltimore to Deep Creek, Maryland was one of the highlights of my summer.

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— Scott Heacock

There’s nothing, nothing, nothing that people could be doing that’s more important than what you guys are doing.

— Bill McKibben

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