31 Days of Giving: Environment
For the past 25 years, Cherry Republic has focused our giving on protecting Michigan's environment. To those organizations working to protect our groundwater, lakes, air, and land. It's truly about supporting good people doing good things and over the years, we've become friends with these hard workers fighting for everything we love about Michigan.
This week, Cherry Republic proudly gives our largest checks to the Michigan League of Conservation Voters. Our President, Bob Sutherland has been a board member for 10 years and loves their work balancing out how our state officials are influenced. We also give a large check to For the Love of Water. FLOW is focused on protecting our ground water, our lakes, our rivers from agricultural run-off, from PFAS, and the hundreds of other threats the Great Lakes basin, the largest resource of fresh water in the world, face each day. A third large check goes to the Legal Team working to stop Line 5. This terrible threat to Lake Michigan and Lake Huron is stuck in the courts; we want to make sure the legal team has the resources to win.
A goal of Cherry Republic's is to be consistent. Once we find a strong organization working in Michigan, we send consistent checks year after year. There are 18 organizations receiving checks again in Cherry Republic's 2025 31 days of Giving Program.
"Please, anyone, everyone, consider giving to these terrific organizations working to protect and even improve the quality of life in our great state." - Bob Sutherland
Here are the organizations:
Michigan League of Conservation Voters
Michigan Environmental Council
National Wildlife Federation
Little Traverse Lake Association
Glen Lake Association
Citizens Climate Education
Great Lake Business Network
Flow
Great Lakes Renewable Energy Alliance
Leslie Science and Nature Center
Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council
TART Trails
Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes
Michigan Climate Action Network
Stop Line 5 Legal Team
Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear
Circle of Blue