NOTE!!!!! Donations using the “donate” button below are not tax deductible.* To make a tax deductible donation, click HERE** to donate to the National Sierra Club Foundation. * Donations directly to the L.I. Sierra Club might be used to defray the cost of endorsing political candidates or lobbying, neither of which is a tax deductible activity. ** Donations to the Sierra Club Foundation for the L.I. Sierra Club group, via the Sierra Club Foundation are recoverable by the group only for its tax deductible activities and, if you want our Long Island Group to use it for that purpose you may indicate this upon donating. To learn more of what we do, read below. Note that, donations using the button below will go directly to the Long Island Sierra Club Group and may be used for any purposes towards bettering the environment of Long Island, including non-tax deductable purposes like endorsing political candidates. THANK YOU!   About the Long Island Sierra Club The Long Island Sierra Club is a "Group" in the Atlantic (New York) Chapter of the national Sierra Club organization. The group operates relatively independently of the state and national organization, receiving only enough funding each year to barely cover the newsletter costs, and limited only by the need to be consistent with state and national policies. The LISC Group is composed of eleven executive committee members- "ExCom" members, active volunteers and committee members, and near 6000 general members. The ExCom is the guiding board of the club, and many of the active volunteers serve on the ExCom at some point. The work of the club is done by committee chairs and volunteers. For example, the conservation committee deals directly with the environmental topics, and has sub-committees for groundwater, coastal waterways, recycling etc. The committees are very fluid at this level, however, and committee members are mostly defined by the volunteers working on them rather than formal appointments. There are also important committees for membership, fundraising, meetings, outings, etc. The sustained activity of all of these committees and volunteers make the LISC a unique volunteer environmental organization. Updated 11.27.11 The Sierra Club is a nonprofit member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions -- legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral. Up to Top